The 2025 ISA Summer Program is tentatively scheduled for June 4 - July 23, 2025. The last session will be scheduled to coincide with the Summer Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC), so the final meeting date will depend on when SURC is scheduled.

Program Information

The ISA Summer Program is 8 weeks long and is available only to active ISA students. Students are expected to do intensive research over the summer and meet once a week for an educational seminar hosted by ISA.

All UI-MARC, LSAMP,  Science Alliance, and Latham students are eligible to participate in our summer program. Summer research is required for UI-MARC students. MARC students must participate in the ISA Summer Program if staying on campus, or do summer research with an approved program off campus. For all other students the ISA Summer Program is optional. 

The ISA Summer Program consists of:

• Laboratory research 
  • At least 20 hours and up to 40 hours per week, depending on the program.
• Mandatory weekly ISA Student Development Seminar
  • Wednesdays from 11:30 - 12:20 pm 
• Summer Undergraduate Research Conference 
  • Students are expected to present a poster on their summer research at SURC
• Social Events throughout the summer
• On-campus room and board in Petersen Hall (sign up when applying for Summer Program)
  • Provided for participants in need
  • Check-in and check-out dates will be announced
  • A summer stipend for room and board will NOT be provided for students living off-campus

Please contact ui-isa@uiowa.edu for more information.

Meanwhile, you can have a look at last year's schedule for an idea of what the ISA Summer Program is like: