{"id":22,"date":"2009-05-27T08:42:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T12:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:04:27","slug":"what-is-urop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/about\/what-is-urop\/","title":{"rendered":"What is UROP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Our mission:<\/h2>\n<p><b><i>To increase student access to research experiences through funded, faculty mentored opportunities university-wide. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>UROP connects BU undergraduate students with funded, faculty-mentored research projects. The program is flexible, allowing research study in any academic area university-wide, for any full-time undergraduate student at BU.<\/p>\n<p>Projects may be undertaken at either the Charles River or Medical Campus. UROP project guidelines encompass a wide range of scientific or scholarly topics that lead to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Production of new knowledge<\/li>\n<li>Increased problem solving capabilities (including research project design\/analysis)<\/li>\n<li>Original critical or historical theory and interpretation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Ready to get involved?<\/h4>\n<p>Schedule a virtual appointment with a member of our team!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calendly.com\/bu-urop\" class=\"button\">UROP Calendly Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Explore currently active research opportunities!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/opportunities\/\" class=\"button\">on campus opportunities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn about funding options and how to be eligible!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/get-involved\/funding-eligibility\/\" class=\"button\">funding and eligibility<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our mission: To increase student access to research experiences through funded, faculty mentored opportunities university-wide. UROP connects BU undergraduate students with funded, faculty-mentored research projects. The program is flexible, allowing research study in any academic area university-wide, for any full-time undergraduate student at BU. Projects may be undertaken at either the Charles River or Medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1568,"featured_media":0,"parent":202,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19829,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/19829"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}