“Whoa, this is something you can do?” says Angelica Rippee, a Latina who is the first college graduate in her family. “I didn’t know about higher education.” When she applied to the one-week Undergraduate Student Initiative for Biomedical Research (USIBR) in the lab of Michelle Digman in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California Irvine, “I was a very confused undergraduate student,” says Rippee. Read More