Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, William Guilford is committed to giving high school juniors and seniors in central Virginia an opportunity to experience life in a research lab.

Associate Professor William Guilford

The High School Science Training Program (High STeP) places disadvantaged high school students in active U.Va. research labs for pay over the summer. This initiative introduces a select population to the research lab experience while they earn money and meet peers and mentors.

Participants complete a brief introductory course that provides them with the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to work in a lab. Then, students of the program join their assigned research lab and participate in day-to-day work. In the fall, participants present their work to their peers, teachers and classmates in a Student Science Symposium.

To learn more about this program, please visit High STeP at bme.virginia.edu/highstep.

This program will not occur during the summer of 2008.