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Division of Continuing Education

Secondary Student Training Program

Director: Will Swain
Web site: http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/sstp

The Secondary Student Training Program (SSTP) provides opportunities for high school students to conduct research in a University of Iowa laboratory under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Students attend faculty seminars, science communication workshops, and many social and recreational activities during the six-week program. During the final week, they present their research results in a formal symposium attended by other SSTP students and the program's faculty and research staff. All SSTP students write a formal abstract summarizing their six weeks of research.

SSTP students live on the University campus during the program.

The University of Iowa's Carver College of Medicine, the Graduate College, and the Colleges of Dentistry, Engineering, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Pharmacy, and Public Health all participate in the Secondary Student Training Program.

Research projects typically are available in biochemistry, biology, biomedical engineering,  chemistry, computer science, dentistry, environmental engineering, hydroscience, integrative physiology, internal medicine, microbiology, pediatrics, physics and astronomy, psychology, and speech pathology. Students may earn up to 3 s.h. of University of Iowa credit during the program. See Secondary Student Training Program (University College) in the Catalog.