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Monica Guan, right, a senior at Martin Luther King Academic Magnet School in Nashville, describes her summer research project to David Royal, Ph.D., during a reception at Vanderbilt recently. Guan was one of 21 high school students from Middle Tennessee who participated in a six-week-long Research Internship Program this summer sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach.