The UC Davis Young Scholars Program is a summer residential research program designed to expose approximately 40 high achieving high school students to the world of original research within the fields of the biological, agricultural, environmental, and natural sciences.

Participants in the UC Davis Young Scholars Program will work one-on-one with research faculty and research groups in the state of the art laboratories for six weeks. Each student will work on an individual project and prepare a journal-quality paper and symposium presentation about their work.

All participants will be enrolled in five (5) units of University Group Study Credit. Assignments for the program include research notebooks, a written article of journal quality describing the research project and its conclusions, presentation of the individual project at a research symposium, and presentation of research to students at the home high school. All work in the program is graded, and credit will be awarded after home presentations are completed.

Who Can Apply?

• All participants must be currently enrolled as a sophomore or junior in high school.

• All participants must be at least 16 years of age by the first day of the program but not 18 years of age at the end of the program

Application deadline: March 15, 2021

Summer Program Dates: June 21,2021 to July 30, 2021