  The main focus of the heavy flavor program at RHIC is to investigate the
properties of the dense matter produced in heavy-ion collisions by studying its
effect on open heavy flavor and quarkonia production. This in turn requires a
detailed understanding of their production in elementary p+p collisions so that
the dense matter effects can be later unfolded. In this paper, we present the
first mid-rapidity cross section measurement of bottomonium at $\sqrt{s}=200$
GeV with the STAR experiment. We compare our results with perturbative QCD
calculations. A brief status on the study of charmonium in STAR is given.
