With funding from the National Institutes of health (NIH) and other generous private donations, the SPURS program was able to accommodate 35 fellows: 21 females and 14 males; 21 African–American, 10 Hispanic-American, and 2 Asian-American. This year, we had students attending schools including: Binghamton University, Columbia University, Cornell University, CUNY College of Staten Island, CUNY Hunter College, Emory University, Fordham University, Harvard College, Howard University, Hunter College, Johns Hopkins University, Middlebury College, New York University, Rice University, SUNY Binghamton University, The Pennsylvania State University, The University of Texas at Austin, Tufts University, University of Nevada Las Vegas, University of Pennsylvania, University of Rochester, Yale University