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UROP Celebrates the Summer 2023 Student Grant Recipients

Consider Giving UROP funding enables transformative learning at the intersection of research and teaching. Help students realize the benefits of attending a world-class research institution—and ensure a brighter future for all. Give Now CU Boulder's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) is pleased to announce the recipients of this summer’s student...

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Feds support undergrad, graduate research experiences at CU

The University of Colorado Boulder Department of Physics has received a $94.5 million award from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to continue the collaborative Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) for the next five years, the department has announced.

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How forgotten Colorado fossils may rewrite part of plant evolutionary history

Botanists and paleontologists, led by researchers from CU Boulder, have identified a fossil chili pepper that may rewrite the geography and evolutionary timeline of the tomato plant family. The team’s findings, published last month in the journal New Phytologist , show that the chili pepper tribe (Capsiceae) within the tomato,...

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Funded UROP Opportunities for Summer 2023 and Academic Year 2023-24

UROP invites CU Boulder undergraduates to join a team of students working with faculty on exciting research and creative projects—starting this summer! With over 30 projects in a wide range of fields, there are many possibilities to connect with meaningful experiences—and empowering teams. Projects are supported by UROP funding and...

Mariana Galvez Seminario

Making research intelligible to people with power

Universities are commonly criticized as exclusive ivory towers hidden behind dense jargon. One University of Colorado Boulder undergraduate hopes to create accessible research that contributes to clear legislation that reduces inequality. “I’m making reproductive justice intelligible to the people with power,” explains Mariana Galvez Seminario, whose personal pronouns are they,...

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Undergraduate Researcher Maya Nelson Interviewed for Podcast

Listen Now Maya Nelson joins the podcast College Matters. Alma Matters to share her experience with undergraduate research at CU Boulder, advice for making the most of your college experience and a few stories about exploring Paris with her research team. For more about Maya's research, check out " New...

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Join the Undergraduate Research and Creative Work Community of Practice

UROP is exploring interest in developing a community of practice (CoP) to support undergraduate research and creative work on the CU Boulder campus. We invite all CU Boulder staff, graduate students, faculty, and postdocs to engage with the community.

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Scientists may have solved a Chaco Canyon mystery by hauling logs with their heads

In a new study, several researchers at CU Boulder reenacted a small part of a trek that people in what is today the Southwest United States may have made more than 1,000 years ago. Rodger Kram, associate professor emeritus of integrative physiology, and James Wilson, then an undergraduate studying biochemistry,...

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New ‘magic beans’ produce ingredients for cancer treatments, vaccines and more

When Brian DeDecker drives past the bucolic green soybean fields en route to his childhood home in rural Illinois, his mind drifts not to the past but to the future. As a first-generation college student turned molecular biologist, DeDecker imagines a day when these humble beans, which his family has...

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Apply for paid summer research positions through SPUR starting Feb. 13

Undergraduate students looking for paid, hands-on experience in a research lab setting over summer break can begin applying online for the 2023 CU SPUR program on Feb. 13. The 10-week Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (CU SPUR) is open to all students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science...

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