The University of Minnesota's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) offers financial awards twice yearly to full time undergraduates for research, scholarly, or creative projects undertaken in partnership with a faculty member. It encourages students to conduct research and pursue academic interests outside of their regular courses by employing them to work on special research projects.
UROP provides stipends of up to $1400 and research expenses of up to $300 for undergraduate students working with a University of Minnesota Faculty Mentor. Full-time (enrolled for =6 credits) undergraduates enrolled in any college on any campus are eligible to apply. Eligible Faculty Mentors are faculty members holding any type of appointment (including clinical, emeritus, adjunct, research associate, etc.) in any college on any campus. UROP students and their Faculty Mentors are often in different colleges and sometimes different campuses.
The next deadline for submitting proposals to the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) is Monday, March 8, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. CDT.
STUDENT UROP APPLICATION PROCESS
STEP 1: REVIEW APPLICATION MATERIALS
STEP 2: FIND A FACULTY MENTOR
UROP awards are not limited to the listed projects or the listed faculty. All proposals will be carefully considered.
STEP 3: WRITE A PROPOSAL
STEP 4: CHECK OUT SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
STEP 5: SUBMIT YOUR UROP APPLICATION MATERIALS/PROPOSAL
STEP 6: WATCH FOR EMAIL NOTIFICATION
- Students and Faculty Mentors will be notified of the status of UROP proposals by email within 6-8 weeks of the submission deadline.
Questions? Contact Kate Maple at kmaple@umn.edu
