Project SEED is a summer research program for economically disadvantaged high school students. It was started and continues to be run by the American Chemical Society and is held at academic and industrial labs throughout the United States. The program allows high school juniors and seniors to perform research in a lab for 8-10 weeks during the summer.
Michigan State University began participating in Project SEED in the summer of 2002 with Professor Babak Borhan as the coordinator. Students who are part of MSU's Project SEED do research within the Chemistry Department and present their findings to other student researchers at the end of the summer. All students are supervised by a professor and work with one or more graduate students on their assigned project.
Students must qualify for the program both academically and economically. Students must have completed one year of high school chemistry and students' family income must not exceed 200% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines for 2005 (should be published in Feb-Mar), guidelines from 2004 are listed below:
| Family size | Maximum income |
| 1 | 18620 |
| 2 | 24980 |
| 3 | 31340 |
| 4 | 37700 |
| 5 | 44060 |
| 6 | 50420 |
| 7 | 56780 |
| 8 | 63140 |
For Summer 2005, Project SEED will run from Monday, June xx, to Friday, August xx (eight weeks). Students participating in the program for the first time will receive a stipend of $2275 and second-year students will receive a stipend of $2600. If you have additional questions regarding MSU Project SEED, please contact Marina Tanasova at (517) 355-9715 x136 or by email at tanasova@msu.edu.