Undergraduate Research at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

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Please note that the amounts for UROP grants have changed. The Research Project and Travel Grants are available to students once per year twice for $1,000. Travel Grants are available for $1,200 for students who are giving presentations at professional conferences and for $600 for students who are not giving presentations at conferences. Please inquire about other opportunities available to fund research and travel available for students during the year as well as during the summer months. IUPUI supports a number of special summer research opportunity programs.

Due to the tremendous growth in proposal submissions experienced by UROP, there now are multiple deadlines per year for UROP grant-proposal submission, and the award process is competitive. Any proposals received late will be reviewed with the following deadline’s pool of proposals. Any grants for which we do not have sufficient funds in May and June 2007 will be re-considered for funding for the new fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2007. If you wish to withdraw your proposal rather than having it re-considered for funding at a later date, please e-mail your preference to Carolyn Key at cakey@iupui.edu.

Please download and review the UROP Grants Checklist, item by item at http://www.urop.iupui.edu/Checklist.pdf Compliance with the checklist is crucial. UROP proposals that remain incomplete, or inaccurately completed, as of the close of business on the proposal-submission deadline date cannot be reviewed with that pool of applicants, and their review must be deferred to the next proposal-submission deadline. If you have questions about what a given item on the checklist requires, please feel free to contact Carolyn Key, the UROP program assistant.

Proposal-Submission DEADLINES
UROP Research Project Grants, whether or not they involve travel to collect data:

April 1, 2008	For Summer 2008 project start dates
September 5, 2008	For Fall 2008 project start dates
October 20, 2008	For Winter 2008-2009 project start dates
December 15, 2008	For Spring 2009 project start dates

UROP Conference Travel Grants:
Thirty (30) days before the official (published) start date of the event for which the student seeks UROP travel funds.
Please note: For all UROP travel, either conference- or research-related, students must go ahead and pay their travel expenses and, after returning from the trip, then submit to our office their original, itemized receipts for reimbursement, which will be processed via the standard IU Travel Management Services procedures. It is crucial that students ensure that they receive itemized receipts for all trip expenses and collect them for reimbursement purposes.

Special Announcements

The McNair Program is still accepting applications

- McNair Forms

If you are ethnic minority (African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American/Alaskan Native), or first-generation low income students you qualify for this program. First-generation means neither parents graduated from college. For more details information about the program, feel free to go to the McNair website at http://www.mcnair.iupui.edu

Click HERE to find out if you qualify for low-income.

UROP Symposium 2008 - Flyer
Friday, March 28, 2008
8:30am-5:00pm
IUPUI Campus Center >> click here for the IUPUI Campus Map

Online Event Registration at http://www.crl.iupui.edu/Events/eventsRegistration.asp?id=1108

Submit Abstracts Online at http://www.crl.iupui.edu/UROPregistration
(Abstract-Submission DEADLINE is on Friday, February 29th, 2008)

Poster Guidelines http://www.urop.iupui.edu/posterguide.html
(Print-Ready Poster Submission DEADLINE is on Friday, March 14th, 2008 before 8:00am)

Mandatory for all UROP grantees! All other undergraduate researchers at IUPUI are invited and encouraged to participate.

Click HERE for UROP Symposium Brief 2008 Schedule

The IUPUI Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) is a campus-wide grants program that encourages and supports undergraduate students to work with a faculty mentor on a research or other creative project. Students who engage in undergraduate research learn through inquiry and experience with an intensity and depth not likely encountered in the classroom. UROP is administered and funded by the IUPUI Center for Research and Learning.

CRL Awards Banquet - Invitation
Friday, April 4, 2008
Primo South Banquet Hall (tentative)
Are you engaged in Undergraduate Research? You do NOT have to be affiliated with any former programs or hold the UROP grant to attend the CRL Awards Banquet! You simply have to independently do research with a faculty mentor.

RSVP by March 4th to Carolyn G. Key at (317) 278-0644

NCUR 2008
April 10-12, 2008
Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland
http://www.salisbury.edu/ncur22

Significant Dates for NCUR 2008:
Call for Applications and Abstracts – October 5, 2007
Deadline for Applications and Abstracts – December 1, 2007
Online Registration Opens—January 14, 2008
Notification of Decision on Abstracts – January 25, 2008
Deadline for Conference Registration – February 22, 2008
Cancellation with Refund Deadline—February 29, 2008
Postmark Deadline for Proceedings Office at UNCA—February 29, 2008
Hotel Reservation DEADLINE –March 7, 2008

National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) is to promote undergraduate research scholarship and creative activity done in partnership with faculty or other mentors as a vital component of higher education. To have your way paid by IUPUI to attend this conference you must submit your application through the Center for Research and Learning. The on-line registration form asks for a contact at IUPUI. You should note the IUPUI Center for Research and Learning or Kathryn Wilson as the contact and provide kjwilson@iupui.edu as the contact email for the institutional support. You must submit your abstract to the CRL first, after your faculty mentor has approved it. This conference is highly competitive and we want to assure that any student that wants to attend has an excellent chance of making the cut!

The New IUPUI MURI Program - Apply NOW for Spring or Summer

Click HERE to find an RFP for a new program, the IUPUI Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Institute Mentoring Program (IUPUI MURI). The web site for this new program is http://www.urop.iupui.edu/IUPUIMURI/home.html This program will be funded by new CTE money from Vice Chancellor Sukhatme and supplemented with CRL and UROP funds. The program is an extension of the MURI program started by Hasan Akay in the School of Engineering and Technology and is extended to the entire campus. The program is not entirely identical but is substantially the same and should contribute to greatly expanding undergraduate research across the campus.

Of note, included in this program's RFP, is an announcement of the mechanism to fund groups of students when the groups are larger than five, through block grants. Block grants can be used for small groups of students greater than five or for whole classes where faculty members and other researchers mentor students in research, scholarship, and creative activity that meets the definition of undergraduate research put forth under the UROP program. UROP and CRL funds have supported a few small groups with block grants on an ad hoc basis in the past. This new program makes this funding mechanism available more openly and may have considerable impact especially when the campus begins to recommend and perhaps ultimately require an experimental learning notation for graduation.

Please distribute this announcement and any of the above information as widely as possible.

CUE LHS Showcase Call

The Consortium on Urban Education (CUE) announces the Life and Health Science Faculty Research Showcase and invites you to participate by showcasing your in a venue that will expose your research to other universities in our area and universities and the local Life and Health Science business community. The Showcase will be held on March 18, 2008, from 5-7pm, at the University Place Conference Center on the IUPUI Campus. The DEADLINE for registration and submission of your project description is Friday, February 8, 2008.

To register your poster presentation or research exhibit, use the following online form:
https://iupui.edu/~solctr/cue-reg-form.php

Additional details about this conference, including physical specifications for your poster or exhibit, may be retrieved at the conference website at http://solutioncenter.iupui.edu/cue-showcase.html

Click HERE to find a flyer and click HERE a general invitation to this event.

Please distribute these and make this event know to anyone who might be interested in showcasing their work.

Call for Abstracts to Posters on the Hill 2008 - This is a national event:

It is increasingly important that the scientific community works to ensure that those in the U.S. Congress who provide funding for science and science education have a clear understanding of the programs they fund and why these programs are important. Undergraduate research must be among those programs that members of Congress understand if it is to continue to be supported.

Nothing more effectively demonstrates the value of undergraduate research than the words and stories of the student participants themselves. In the Spring of 2008, The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) will host its 12th annual undergraduate poster session on Capitol Hill. This event will help members of Congress understand the importance of undergraduate research by talking directly with the students whom these programs impact.

CUR is calling for students to submit an abstract of their research that represents any of CUR's divisions (Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, Mathematics/Computer Science, Physics/Astronomy, Psychology, and Social Sciences). We are also accepting abstracts in the Humanities. In honor of International Polar Year, the Council on Undergraduate Research would like to encourage the submission of research abstracts for Posters on the Hill that involve polar research.
Posters on the Hill is tentatively scheduled for April 16, 2008 in Washington, D.C. The deadline for submitting applications is November 15, 2007. More information and the application are available at: http://www.cur.org/postersession.html

Note that IUPUI UROP will provide a travel grant to any student whose poster abstract is accepted to this important event.

U.S. News Recognition

Did you know?

Undergraduate research is an excellent preparation for your possible next step. Consider graduate graduate school. Click here for more information about how to think about this and how to prepare to get in and YES!

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Meet Your IUPUI UROP Program Assistant, Carolyn G. Key!

IUPUI Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Program Administrator, Carolyn G. Key, resides in the Center for Research and Learning in the University Library, Room 1140. This is to the left through the first hallway on your left when your enter the library through its main entrance. You may call her from 8:00am - 5:00pm at (317) 278-0644, fax her at (317) 278-3602, or email her at cakey@iupui.edu

You may download a UROP Program Description (PDF)

What is UROP?
UROP is the Grants Program supporting student independent research and creative activity. UROP is administered and funded by the IUPUI Center for Research and Learning. Learn more!

Project and Travel Funding from UROP
UROP Grant proposals provide funding for conference travel and for research projects. You may apply for either a Project and Research Travel Grant, (limit $1,000) intended for research and creative projects and for travel for research purposes, or for a Conference Travel Grant, (limit $1,200 if your are presenting and $600 if you are not presenting) intended for travel to a professional conference. You may apply once a year two times for the Research Project and Travel Grant. The stipend may be up to $1,000. Currently there are no deadlines for these proposals. Proposals may be submitted at anytime during the academic year or summer session. Grants are for IUPUI undergraduate research work carried out with the mentorship of a faculty member appointed at IUPUI.

Before writing a proposal of any kind read the following documents:
What Does a UROP Proposal Look Like?
Nineteen Tips for Successful Proposal Writing
Why Proposals Fail

UROP Application Deadlines
UROP grants currently have no deadlines. Proposals may be submitted at anytime during the academic year or summer sessions. Proposals are reviewed and grants made within two months of submission.

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Find a Mentor
All undergraduate research supported by UROP is mentored by IUPUI faculty members. A student must identify a faculty member, with an appointment in any school or program on campus, who agrees to guide the development and conduct of a research project. The Center for Research and Learning will help students identify a faculty research mentor, upon request. Contact Dr. Kathryn Wilson, 278-1028 or email kjwilson@iupui.edu.

The Student Research Portfolio
UROP encourages students to prepare a portfolio that documents the research work in which the student engages while at IUPUI. A Research Portfolio is required for Transcript Notation.

Transcript Notation
UROP provides a transcript notation for students who complete a set of requirements laid out by the program. The Transcript Notation calls attention to the research accomplishments of a student in a noticeable manner and also shows exceptional accomplishment of independent research and creative work while at IUPUI.

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UROP Committee
UROP is administered by a Director and guided by the Board of Directors for the IUPUI Center for Research and Learning.

School of Science UROP

The School of Science provides grant funding and honors student researchers in a program that complements the campus program. Other schools and programs wishing to post a link to their special undergraduate research programs should contact the CRL Director.

Funding from External Sources
Many sources of funding for student creative endeavors and for research travel are available through external agencies and and may be accessed through this link.