They may do their research at their home institution or at a cooperating business, university or research facility. The UROP program offers financial awards twice yearly to full time U of M undergraduates for research, scholarly, or creative projects undertaken in partnership with a faculty member. The program encourages students to conduct research and pursue academic interests outside of their regular courses by employing them to work on special research projects. The program's objective is to promote undergraduate involvement in ongoing and new research in scientific computing, digital technology, and visualization in the physical, medical, and social sciences and engineering and in new software development efforts for scientific computing and graphics support for such research, as well as to carry out useful and interesting research. Through the SROP students work on a research project guided by a faculty mentor and have the opportunity to explore a topic of interest at one of fifteen host CIC universities.
Highest priority goes to undergrads and followed by beginning graduate students.
Support will not be provided for students who are giving papers.