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Jeanita S. Pritchett, an undergraduate student at Tennessee State University in Nashville, spent the summer working at a lab at the National Instiute on Aging in Baltimore, MD. Pritchett was one of many NIGMS minority program particiapnts who spent the summer performing research internships away from their home institutions. For more on summer internships, see "Summer Research" in this issue.