Undergraduate Symposium

Registration and Abstract Submission are now open for the 2009 Undergraduate Symposium, Wednesday, April 8 in Coffman Union. The Registration Deadline is Monday, March 16.

Need help making your poster for the Undergraduate Symposium? Look here! More poster making information is located here.

UROP—Learn and Earn!

Proposal Submission Deadline: Monday, March 2, 2009

The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) is your chance to work with a Faculty Mentor on a Creative Activity or Research project with financial support from the University of Minnesota. UROP students receive stipends of up to $1400 and expenses of up to $300.

GET HELP: Check out these sample approved proposals for ideas on how to write your own successful proposal!

Sample Proposals:

Proposal 1; Proposal 2; Proposal 3; Proposal 4; Proposal 5;
Proposal 6; Proposal 7

Workshops on How to Get Started With UROP:

Thursday, February 5; 11:15 - 12:00, 186 HHH, West Bank
Monday, February 9; 3:15 - 4:00, 22 McNeal Hall, St. Paul
Tuesday, February 10; 2:15-3:00, 433 Johnston Hall, East Bank

Find a Faculty Mentor...

• Check out the links on the left under the heading For Current Students,

• Browse through the Research Gallery using the links to the left.

• Follow the UROP Opportunity Gallery link (to the left) to learn about some possible projects.

• Check the UROP's that were approved in Fall 2007, Spring 2008 and Fall 2008. Would you be interested in working with one of these professors who has recently mentored another UROP student?

• Look at the Abstracts from the 2008 Undergraduate Symposium. These describe actual projects done by students like you with Faculty Mentors.

• Talk with your college's UROP Coordinator.

• Look at Faculty and Research listings on departmental websites.

• Email possible Faculty Mentors and arrange appointments to talk.

• Most Important: GO TALK TO PROFESSORS!

Summer Research Programs

Check out summer research programs at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities at: http://www.grad.umn.edu/outreach/research/

Summer research opportunities (with pay) also exist at many sites throughout the United States and even outside the U.S. You can find out about them at these websites:

National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/index.jsp

Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy:
http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/scied/erulf/about.html

University of Minnesota Mathematics Research

National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)—April 16-18, 2009, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse

Meet an Undergraduate Researcher

Alysse Zittnan is a CLA senior, who is double majoring in Spanish and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. Alysse has completed a UROP with Professor Benjamin Munson on the topic of The Influence of Linguistic Complexity on Gender Typicality in Children's Speech: Acoustic Analyses. Her research involved looking at the gender differences of speech, what classifies genders, and how you know it is a female or male that is talking to someone. She looked at tone and analyzed the different voice patterns of men and women. Alysse plans to do graduate studies and work as a professional speech pathologist.