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The University of Oklahoma Outreach and Precollegiate Programs offers the following two summer academies.
June 22-27, 2008
This academy offers a session focusing on two disciplines in the life sciences, botany and zoology. Students will study organisms in their natural habitats and participate in lectures and discussions on research methodology, the philosophy of science, ethics in science and laboratory based experiences, attend seminars on designing field projects. Students will also write scientific research papers and participate in extensive field studies utilizing nature as the “classroom.” University staff and outstanding secondary teachers compose the talented and diverse group of instructors for the academy.
High school students who will enter their junior or senior year in the fall of 2008 are eligible to apply. Twenty students will be accepted. Download brochure.
July 20-25, 2008
This academy offers a summer session providing students entering their junior or senior year in the fall with hands-on experience in the basic areas of mathematics that reinforce the college study of physics, engineering and mathematics.
Areas covered include probability, logic, statistics and calculus. Directed by Dr. Richard Neal, the classes will emphasize the use of extensive symbolic notation required to represent mathematical ideas.
In each week-long session, students move from concrete examples to more abstract ones using hands-on methods. Students extend the notation from the concrete cases in ways to represent the more abstract ones. They will compare and contrast the use of technology for undergraduate physics, math and science students.
Twenty students will be selected. During the session students reside in university residence halls on the campus in Norman, Oklahoma. Students who will enter their junior or senior year in the fall are eligible to apply.
Download the brochure.
Phone: (405)
325-6897 ~ Fax: (405) 325-7679 ~ Email
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Field
Studies in Multidisciplinary Biology 
Bridges to
College Math, Science and Engineering