The program matches high school students with UMC faculty members for in-depth experiences in the sciences.

Base Pair-trained high school students are authors on more than five dozen published scientific papers or abstracts.

SOAR was developed to implement advanced science research activities for JPS students outside of the UMC zone.

The SOAR program supports advanced biomedical and forensic science laboratory research by students at each high school site.

[7] Murrah's Speech and Debate Team, currently coached by Micah Everson, Erin Mauffray, and Javier Peraza, has produced many successful competitors.