The American Indian Research and Education Center (AIREC)/University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) under the School of Community Health Sciences represent one of four national Coordinating Center within the Short-Term Research Experience for Underrepresented Persons (STEP-UP) program. The project aims to expose American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) current year junior and senior high school students to the science of diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism, nutrition, and obesity.