University of Pittsburgh High School Summer Academy Open House

WHAT: An informational session for high school students and their parents and teachers reviewing research and experiential learning opportunities at the University of Pittsburgh

WHO:

• Michael T. Lotze, M.D., vice chair, Department of Surgery with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), and  Doris Duke Academy for Clinical Research program director
  
  
• Megan Seippel, UPCI Summer Academy program administrator, and other staff discussing the program’s research opportunities
  
  
• Program alumni discussing the program’s impact on their higher-education and career choices

WHEN: 5 to 7 p.m., Wed., Jan. 18

WHERE: William Pitt Union, Kurtzman Room, 3959 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260

WHY: Now in its fourth summer, UPCI’s High School Summer Academy offers students the opportunity to work one-on-one with a senior cancer researcher in a laboratory setting.  Rising high school seniors accepted into the program will develop a research project that will be presented at the program’s conclusion. They also will participate in shadowing opportunities, field trips to local scientific activities and presentations by guest speakers. The three sites participating in the UPCI Summer Academy are the Hillman Cancer Center in Shadyside, the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Computational and Systems Biology in Oakland and the Magee-Womens Research Institute in Oakland. Other summer programs, including those at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC and the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, also will be presented, and representatives will be available.

For more information, contact Megan Seippel at 412-623-5977 or Dr. Lotze at 412-623-6790, or visit http://www.upci.upmc.edu/summeracademy/.