# National Institutes of Health Undergraduate Scholarship Program Regarding Professions Needed by National Research Institutes
> **National Institutes of Health** · Final rule. · Published 2015-08-12 · Effective 2015-09-11 · 80 FR 48272
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-19739
- **Category:** research
- **Sub-agency:** National Institutes of Health
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 48272
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 68
- **Publication date:** 2015-08-12
- **Effective date:** 2015-09-11
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. NIH-2007-0930
## Abstract

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is issuing regulations to implement provisions of the Public Health Service Act authorizing the NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program Regarding Professions Needed by National Research Institutes (UGSP). The purpose of the program is to recruit appropriately qualified undergraduate students from disadvantaged backgrounds to conduct research in the intramural research program as employees of the NIH by providing scholarship support.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/08/12/2015-19739/national-institutes-of-health-undergraduate-scholarship-program-regarding-professions-needed-by)
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