BOWLING GREEN, Ky., July 9 -- Western Kentucky University issued the following news release:

Thanks to a new collaborative program between the WKU Ogden College of Science and Engineering and the University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Bowling Green Campus, medical students will have a new opportunity starting this summer to build their fundamental scientific skills through hands-on research alongside WKU faculty on real-world projects that impact and contribute to future advances in healthcare.

To help foster such experiences, the UK College of Medicine-Bowling Green Campus and WKU Ogden College are teaming up for a unique program called the Biomedical Research Excellence Program, or BREP for short.

According to Dr. David Brown, Dean...