Funding Curiosity
UROP connects BU undergraduate students with funded, faculty-mentored research experiences.
Any undergraduate student enrolled full-time at Boston University is eligible to apply for UROP funding.
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What Does Research With UROP Look Like?
Ariyana Bonab (CAS Astrophysics) studies white dwarf stars in a research group led by JJ Hermes, a BU College of Arts & Sciences Assistant Professor of Astronomy. White dwarf stars are the leftover cores of dying stars. In her UROP funded research project, Bonab has looked at over 54,000 images of white dwarfs, and is trying to determine the composition of each one.
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- Social Science; Language and Culture; Italian American/North End
- Teacher Education
- Neurobiology Data Analysis
- Psychology and Large Language Models
- Marketing
- Business strategy
- Skeletal Biology
- Computer Science
- Japanese Studies, Literature Research
- Sociology
Why Mentor?
J Keith Vincent
"I have been so grateful to work with several generations of UROP students on genjipoems.org, a digital humanities project focussing on the poetry in the Japanese classic novel, Tale of Genji. I have enjoyed watching and helping the students learn on the job, as they improve their coding skills and deepen their knowledge of this great masterpiece of the Japanese literary tradition. As each new cohort has come on board, the older students help get the new team members up to speed, serving as mentors for each other and developing organizational and team-work skills that will serve them in their careers. This process has been very inspiring to watch. And the site simply would never have been possible without the students' contributions."
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All full-time undergraduate Boston University students are eligible to apply for UROP funding.
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Student Spotlights
Check out some of the research our students have done!
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UROP has a variety of special awards for which applicants may be considered.
Take Part in a Research Cocurricular
The UROP office hosts two cocurriculars -HUB CC280 Building a Research Community complements and enriches a student's UROP research experience by providing opportunities to foster interdisciplinary discourse with other researchers. HUB CC195 Exploring Research Opportunities provides students with an introduction to research at BU.
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The relationships I built with other students and my mentor have been an incredible support system for both academic and personal endeavors, and UROP gave me the stability to continue strengthening those relationships over many years.
Leela Munsiff
CAS Linguistics
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Serving as a faculty mentor benefitted me immensely…it gave me new perspective on my research and how to present to a wider, non-specialist audience. I would absolutely encourage any faculty member to participate in UROP.
Carrie Preston
Professor, CAS English