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Check out our new video with summer information and alumni testimonials!

Take a tour of ASU’s Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics and you’ll find some of the most advanced technology available in the scientific world. But you won’t just find tenured professors with stacks of published papers conducting research here. You’ll also see ambitious undergraduates like Paul Akhenblit, a biochemistry major helping to make strides in cancer research.Read the entire article here.

Congratulations to MSHP alumni who have graduated from ASU. A number of MSHP alumni graduated with distinction from the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, among others. MSHP also had a number of students receiving graduate degrees.

Congrats to Angelica Hernandez, the Distinguished Graduating Senior in Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering!!

As you continue onto graduate school or to the professional field, know that MSHP is extremely proud of you and excited for your future endeavors!

Click here to view the Spring 2011 graduation pictures.

Ask five people how they feel about mathematics, and chances are three of them will make a face, as if you had just suggested they eat a peanut butter and hormiga sandwich.

Ask ASU student Nancy Valtierra the same question, and she'd smile. She's one of those people who actually likes math.

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The high school students call it a boot camp. In the middle of summer they’re in an ASU classroom by 8 a.m., grinding out 12 hours of college algebra, pre-calculus and calculus with analytic geometry.

No cell phones, video games or iPods. Quizzes and problem sessions every afternoon. Tutoring every night. No walking around on campus. Bed check at 10:30 p.m.

Sound like a teenage nightmare? Actually, it’s one of the most competitive and successful summer programs on campus.

The ASU Math-Science Honors Program celebrates 25 years of changing young students’ lives this year, having channeled more than 2,300 first-generation and underrepresented minority students through the program. Virtually all participants go on to graduate from high school, and about 95 percent enroll in college, many earning degrees in math, science and engineering.

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