Opportunities for High School Students
University Science Transition Experience Program (USTEP) at SFU
We have just completed our first successful year of USTEP lectures and are making plans for the 2013/2014 school year! If you have ideas for potential topics that complement your school's science curriculum, please contact sciadean@sfu.ca.
This year's theme was "Energy" and past presentation information can be seen here.
Students are encouraged to join this free program at any time throughout the school term - just email us to express your interest. Even if your school is outside of Metro Vancouver, you can still participate via videolink.
If your school has a Directed Studies Course and you want to get high school credit for participating in this program, complete this registration form
While USTEP is over for the year, students still have the opportunity to attend the free, Nobel Talks @ SFU.
April 18, IRMACS Theatre, 12:30 - 2 pm
Assoc. Professor Paul Haljan
"Exploring and harnessing quantum weirdness" centres on the 2012 Nobel prize-winning work of Serge Haroche and David Wineland for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quntum systems.
May 16th, IRMACS Theatre, 3 - 4:30 pm
Professor Esther M. Verheyn
"From stem cells to maturity and back - promises and perils of reprogramming cell fate" centres on the 2012 Nobel prize-winning work of John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanada for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.
June 20th, IRMACS Theatre, 3 - 4:30 pm
Topic: TBA
Click here for more details about the program
Printable USTEP info poster for Teachers and School Staff
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