This administrative supplement is consistent with the aims and scope of the National Institute on Aging grant, ?Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR)? (5 P30 AG015281). We plan to make use of MCUAAAR?s unique administrative, investigator, and community core missions to promote and encourage science educators? knowledge of health inequalities. Our goal is to increase educators? knowledge of health disparities and to provide exposure both to research and community outreach programs. These experiences should improve their ability to disseminate this knowledge to their students and encourage those students to pursue health-related education and engage with community programs. The combination of high unemployment (14.3% February 2009) in the Detroit Metropolitan area, declining resources and closure of local high schools and community colleges, and increasing fiscal restraints due to the economic downturn and the automobile industry?s struggles place science teachers? opportunities for continuing education and updating or acquisition of new knowledge at severe risk. The proposed supplement is consistent with our guiding objective to address minority aging by developing a cadre of science educators who recognize the centrality of minority aging to high quality science. Specifically, we will embed an African American Aging Summer Immersion for Science Teachers (AASIST) within the MCUAAAR training portfolio. The program will recruit eight science educators from the greater metropolitan Detroit area for one-year professional development on minority aging issues. The program will be independent, but fully integrated with common elements of the existing MCUAAAR, such as the summer workshop. It will feature interdisciplinary seminars, hands-on mentoring research experience, and mentored attendance at two Gerontology Society of America (GSA) meetings.