Program Overview

UConn Pre-College Summer Program

The UConn Pre-College Summer program offers an immersive and interactive learning experience for students. The program is designed to prepare students for continued learning in disciplines such as earth and environment sciences, political science, and social justice in college.

Program Details

• The program includes a course on Climate Science, which guides students through building a computer model to understand climate change and prediction.
• The course will provide students with the ability to explain the unique nature of ongoing climate change in the context of Earth’s climate history, make sense of climate projections, and conduct basic statistical analysis with a computer language.
• The program also offers a scholarship opportunity for eligible students, which will enable them to participate in the Climate Science course at no cost.

Course Information

• The Climate Science course is a residential, non-credit course that will be offered in Session 3: July 13 – July 19.
• The course will cover topics such as Earth’s energy balance, greenhouse effect, and feedbacks that drive planetary temperature evolution.
• Students will also model the carbon cycle and the evolution of CO2 in the atmosphere, estimate how temperature may evolve following different future socioeconomical development scenarios, and analyze climate simulations and assess their uncertainty.

Program Schedule

• The program schedule includes breakfast from 7am – 9am, class from 9am – 12pm, lunch from 12pm – 1:30pm, and class or workshop from 1:30pm – 4pm.
• The program also includes social programming from 7pm – 9pm and room checks at 10:30pm.

Meet the Professor

• The Climate Science course will be taught by Professor Ran Feng, who is a professor of Earth Sciences at UConn and leads the Computational Climate Change Lab.
• Professor Feng’s research and teaching involve the study of climate evolution through Earth’s history and the implications of past warm climate states for future climate change.