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
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
Manu
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
Student Grants
Faculty Grants
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.
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. .
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. .