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2025-26 Academic Year Student Grants

2025-26 Academic Year Student Grants

These inspiring students were awarded UROP Student Grants to work with 91¸£ÀûÉç faculty on projects next Academic Year. We invite you to celebrate with us!

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Student Grants

91¸£ÀûÉç's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) offers two student grant types based on the student's involvement in the project's development. Assistantships provide funding to students to partner with a faculty mentor to help on an existing project. Individual Grants allow students to take ownership of part or all of a project with an original proposal. Learn more about Student Grants.

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Assistantships

$1,000 each


Ashley Agyepong
Mentor: Holly Allen

Ashton Barcelona
Mentor: Jennifer Hill

Suah Chang
Mentor: Pui Fong Kan

Cara Colwell
Mentor: Wyatt Shields IV

Luke Conrad
Mentor: Andrew Grotzinger

Soraya De La Oliva
Mentor: Christopher Lowry

Row Dyer
Mentor: Jaroslav Tir

Wren Goldman
Mentor: Marcelo Sousa

Avery Holdren
Mentor: Kristi Anseth

Anoushka Jani
Mentor: David Root

Rachel Korsunsky
Mentor: Markus Raschke

Sonya Li
Mentor: Shelley Copley

Dane Macdonald
Mentor: Amy Palmer

Emma Marble
Mentor: Kevin Mahan

Colm Murphy
Mentor: Loren Hough

Shreeya Roy
Mentor: Robert Davis

Will Schultz
Mentor: Hannah Ghasemi

Rob Silverman
Mentor: Shelley Copley

Jack Simone
Mentor: Monika Fleshner

Lucas Swallow
Mentor: Meredith Betterton

Meaghan Thompson
Mentor: Leaf Van Boven

Sabrina Toor
Mentor: Douglas Seals

Aspasia Vazquez
Mentor: Sebastian Kopf

Min Wang
Mentor: Charles Hoeffer

Melissa Wong
Mentor: Hannah Zlotnick

Kaitlyn Wynes
Mentor: Maciej Walczak

Ruomu Zhang
Mentor: Cindy Regal

Kalpana Murugan
Mentor: Karl Mueller

William Nassif
Mentor: Melanie Peffer

Andrea Negulescu
Mentor: Kayla Sprenger

Aidan Olsson
Mentor: Melanie Peffer

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Individual Grants

$1,500 each


Chris Andrews
Mentor: Ryan Bachtell

Ashley Askins
Mentor: Anne Sheehan

Kat Barr
Mentor: Katharine Suding

Owen Barton
Mentor: Nesrine Mansour

Layla Borja
Mentor: Aaron Whiteley

Gurneet Brar
Mentor: Mark Borden

Chloe Brown
Mentor: Joshua Correll

Megan Burke
Mentor: Joshua Correll

Carlos Carale
Mentor: Erik Knight

Bela Chaudhuri
Mentor: Amy Palmer

Leo Cornelsen
Mentor: Alison Cool

Savannah Craig
Mentor: Raichle Farrelly

Salma Dabbour
Mentor: Marie Banich

Vlad Denisenkov
Mentor: Timothy White

Kolya Dols
Mentor: Amy Palmer

Malia Edgerton
Mentor: Vignesh Kasinath

Colleen Ewald
Mentor: Alisha Clark

Asher Ferreira
Mentor: Karolin Luger

Kody Fung
Mentor: Pieter Johnson

Liora Goldstein
Mentor: Karolin Luger

Jasmitha Gourabathini
Mentor: Nikolaus Correll

Max Iranmanesh
Mentor: Kwangmin Kim

Wei Jiang
Mentor: Alessandro Roncone

Lark Jones
Mentor: Kevin Mahan

Nova Jones
Mentor: Karen Bailey

PiperJo Jones
Mentor: Aaron Whiteley

M Jordan
Mentor: Eric Jones

Anya Keena
Mentor: Ashley Maloney

Alisha Kumari
Mentor: Wyatt Shields

Francois Labadie
Mentor: Rachel Rowe

Emily Lubek
Mentor: Pieter Johnson

Claire Maloney
Mentor: Pei-San Tsai

David Marquez
Mentor: Erin Manzitto-Trip

Grace Thompson
Mentor: William Taylor

Bo Thorstenson
Mentor: Justin Brumbaugh

Ella Todd
Mentor: Xiang Wang

Eera Vedavyas
Mentor: Annie Margaret

Abby Verneuille
Mentor: Sharon DeWitte

Nandhana Vivek
Mentor: Zoe Donaldson

McKenna Walters
Mentor: Marie Banich

Lucy Walton
Mentor: Ann-Marie Madigan

Gabriel Watkins
Mentor: Jared Arp

Tia Wu
Mentor: Matthew Rossman

Ankit Mukkamala
Mentor: Lisa Hiura

Roshni Nandi
Mentor: Maciej Walczak
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Narasimha Moorthy
Mentor: Brad Olwin

Olivia Neilly
Mentor: Zoe Donaldson

Katie Parks
Mentor: Evava Pietri

Sam Patten
Mentor: Justin Brumbaugh

Jasmine Perez
Mentor: Ana Contreras

Isabella Perrin
Mentor: Meaghan Courvan

Julia Pop
Mentor: Isabella Oleksy

Joelle Pospisil
Mentor: Alysia Marino

Emily Reardon
Mentor: Sharon DeWitte

Julia Renz
Mentor: Zoe Donaldson

Katie Ridgway
Mentor: Zannah Matson

Soren Rollin
Mentor: Carolyn Crow

Samuel Ruzzene
Mentor: Christopher DeSouza

Emma Seliskar
Mentor: Melanie Peffer

Kalen Sieja
Mentor: Tamar Malloy

Isaiah Smith
Mentor: Kevin Reardon

Emmett Spreitzer
Mentor: Alison Xiaoqiao Xie

Dennis Swanson
Mentor: Azza Kamal

Holly McCrory Scott
Mentor: Thomas Marchitto

Rowan Millett
Mentor: Pieter Johnson

Kat Milz
Mentor: Ryan Curtis

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ÌýÌýSpring 2025 Review Cycle

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Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)

UROP offers flexible funding options (grants) for undergraduates and faculty to form partnerships for projects in all majors, fields of study and professional practice; hosts engaging events for students, staff and faculty to connect and grow; celebrates and enables mentorship; supports student-led campus publications; collaborates broadly throughout campus; and works with national and global partners to advance best practices.

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Enable Transformative Learning

UROP represents an opportunity to enable student-centered education that makes the most of 91¸£ÀûÉç’s global leadership in research and creative production. With well-documented benefits from persistence to postgraduate success, engagement in the research and creative life of the university can clarify career paths and prepare students for the future of work. Donations support empowering opportunities in all fields of study. .

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Participate in the Sidewalk Symposium on April 25, 2025

Developed and hosted in 91¸£ÀûÉç since 2018, UROP's Sidewalk Symposium invites undergraduates to create and share their research and creative presentations with chalk on campus walkways. UROP welcomes undergraduates at any stage of their project timeline.


The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) represents an opportunity to enable student-centered education that makes the most of 91¸£ÀûÉç’s global leadership in research and creative production. With well-documented benefits from persistence to postgraduate success, engagement in the research and creative life of the university can clarify career paths and prepare students for the future of work. Donations support empowering opportunities in all fields of study. .