Texas cancer center offers hands-on research experience to encourage young people to pursue...

Describes the eight week summer program at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where 20 students performed research projects, presented papers and shared their expertise and enthusiasm with a group of high-school science teachers. One of the nation's oldest summer programs; Set-up of the program; Addition of high-school teachers in 1986; Comments on the program; Medical careers and allied health fields.