Project Summary-Administrative Core Over the past two decades, the UNC CFAR Administrative Core has developed and maintained synergistic partnerships with faculty and students at local Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs) in North Carolina. This engagement is based on two fundamental beliefs: (1) faculty at HBCUs have unique and important contributions to make in understanding the HIV epidemic, and (2) providing formative experiences in research for students at HBCUs is an important contribution to the next generation of investigators. Building upon these principles, we have collaborated with North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) through internship programs, development awards, and administrative supplements. With initial funding (2021-22) from the CFAR Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Pipeline Initiative (CDEIPI), coordinated by the DC CFAR we created the North Carolina Pathway for Inclusive Excellence (NC-PIE) in collaboration with NCCU and NC A&T. NC-PIE is a sustainable, yearlong graduate and undergraduate student pathway program designed to enhance inclusion in the biomedical sciences. This funding was successfully renewed through CFAR Administrative supplements for 2022-23 and 2023-24. In this application we build on lessons learned to further optimize the NC-PIE student experience and provide additional opportunities for exposure. In addition, we have created two new opportunities: 1) we will partner with UNC Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology to enhance an immersive summer research experience the HBCU Bridge Summer Research Opportunity Program (HBCU-Bridge-SROP) and 2) we will develop a new undergraduate lecture series “Principles of HIV” that will be offered as part of the Public Health education curriculum at NCCU. This revision application housed within the Administrative core, will afford novel professional learning experiences, catalyze partnerships to create new research, training and mentoring opportunities and advance knowledge of infectious diseases especially HIV and allied health careers. CFAR Administrative infrastructure is in place to support the aims of this revision application.