2026-27 Academic Year Faculty Project Grants
These inspiring faculty were awarded $4,000 UROP Team Project Grants to support groups of CU 抖阴传媒在线 undergraduates on a wide range of projects next academic year.
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19
Projects
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135
Students
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$76,000
Funding
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11
Departments
听听2026-27 Academic Year Team Grants
Integrating community science and parasite ecology to understand osprey exposure risk to Black Spot Syndrome in Florida
- Mentor: Dana Calhoun
- Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Insect Diversity and Abundance in Apple Tree as Ecosystem Service Study
- Mentor: Lisa Corwin
- Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Hindsight Creative Nonfiction
- Mentor: Jay Ellis
- Department: Program for Writing and Rhetoric
Autistic Life and Language
- Mentor: Kira Hall
- Department: Linguistics
Power, Participation, and Impact: Evaluating Community-Engaged Design in Medell铆n
- Mentor: Valeria Henao Cano
- Department: Environmental Design
How Breathing Shapes Speech in Cerebellar Disease
- Mentor: Allison Hilger
- Department: Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences
Students-Led Online Depository for Rosetta鈥檚 Tangible and Intangible Heritage.
- Mentor: Azza Kamal
- Department: Environmental Design
Using PAR to study how students experience new 鈥渁ll comers鈥 policies
- Mentor: Ben Kirshner
- Department: School of Education, Learning Sciences & Human Development
Environmental design factors related to student experience, performance and wellbeing
- Mentor: Case Lindberg
- Department: Environmental Design
Forest/Road: Exhibiting the Spatial and Political Imprint of the Amazonian Infrastructures
- Mentor: Zannah Matson
- Department: Environmental Design
A Functional Genomics Approach to Understanding the Evolution of 鈥淓ndless Forms"
- Mentor: Daniel Medeiros
- Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
2027 Senior Showcase: Theatre & Musical Theatre
- Mentor: Tamara Meneghini
- Department: Theatre & Dance
Using RNA-based fluorescent biosensors to study metabolic changes in breast cancer
- Mentor: Amy Palmer
- Department: Biochemistry
Investigating zinc regulation in breast cancer
- Mentor: Amy Palmer
- Department: Biochemistry
The Middle School Ensembles Program
- Mentor: David Rickels
- Department: College of Music, Music Education
A Dynamic and Interactive Sensory Mapping Approach to Support Neurodivergent Sensory Experiences
- Mentor: Elena Sabinson
- Department: Environmental Design
Circularity in Practice: Learning from Informal Settlements in Medell铆n
- Mentor: Jota Samper
- Department: Environmental Design
Recovering Trans Latinx Disco Nightlife: The GG Barnum Room in 1970s New York
- Mentor: Kristie Soares
- Department: Women & Gender Studies
Impact Playback: Empowering Students & Communities through Engaged Theatre
- Mentor: Jim Walker
- Department: Undergraduate Enrichment Programs
Details
UROP Team Project Grants support research and creative projects involving two or more CU 抖阴传媒在线 undergraduates. Tenured/tenure-track research and teaching faculty, professional researchers and practitioners, and postdoctoral scholars at the 抖阴传媒在线 and Anschutz Medical Campus are eligible to apply for Team Project Grants. Recipients have the option to promote their projects as an Open Opportunity on the UROP website. Join the Application Alert List to be notified when UROP reopens for proposal submissions in the next review cycle.
听听Spring 2026 Review Cycle
Student Grants
Award Rate: 36.27%
| Average Proposal Scores | |
|---|---|
| Awards: | 91.04% |
| No Offer: | 78.91% |
| Awarded Project Categories | |
|---|---|
| Arts & Humanities | 9 |
| Business | 0 |
| Education | 0 |
| Life/Bio-Sciences | 39 |
| Math, Physical Sci. & Engineering | 11 |
| Social & Behavioral Sci. | 11 |
Award Rate: 69.61%
| Average Proposal Scores | |
|---|---|
| Awards: | 85.04% |
| No Offer: | 82.71% |
| Awarded Project Categories | |
|---|---|
| Arts & Humanities | 5 |
| Business | 0 |
| Education | 0 |
| Life/Bio-Sciences | 42 |
| Math, Physical Sci. & Engineering | 14 |
| Social & Behavioral Sci. | 9 |
Faculty Grants
Award Rate: 70.37%
| Average Proposal Scores | |
|---|---|
| Awards: | 88.55% |
| No Offer: | 74.88% |
| Awarded Project Categories | |
|---|---|
| Arts & Humanities | 5 |
| Business | 0 |
| Education | 0 |
| Life/Bio-Sciences | 10 |
| Math, Physical Sci. & Engineering | 3 |
| Social & Behavioral Sci. | 1 |
Award Rate: 76.00%
| Average Proposal Scores | |
|---|---|
| Awards: | 90.20% |
| No Offer: | 74.54% |
| Awarded Project Categories | |
|---|---|
| Arts & Humanities | 7 |
| Business | 0 |
| Education | 1 |
| Life/Bio-Sciences | 5 |
| Math, Physical Sci. & Engineering | 0 |
| Social & Behavioral Sci. | 6 |
Review Board
- Pei-San Tsai
- Angela Thieman Dino
- Wei Tan
- Morow Tan
- Jennifer Stratford
- Stacey Smith
- Natasha Shrikant
- JulieMarie Shepherd Macklin
- Emily Schell
- Eleanor Salm
- Becca Safran
- Elena Sabinson
- Juliana Ruef
- Rachel Rowe
- David Root
- Julian Resasco
- Lynneatte Quenin
- Cheryl Pinzone
- Anthony Pinter
- Dang Pham
- Amy Palmer
- Renice Obure
- Kristin Moore
- Erika Mehrhoff
- Stephen Majeski
- Erik Knight
- Ellen Keister
- Brendan Kaiser
- Eric Jones
- Brooke Huibregtse
- Eve-Lyn Hinckley
- Linnea Helenius
- Vikas Hanasoge Nataraja
- Manuela Garay Sarmiento
- Catherine Fontana
- Kyle Fisch
- Jay Ellis
- Maxwell Elling
- Kelsie Eichel
- Lisa de Alwis
- Sanna Darvish
- Meaghan Courvan
- Lisa Corwin
- Joshua Correll
- Garrett Bredeson
- Teresa Bilinski
- Atreyee Bhattacharya
- Grace Bennett-Pierre
- Courtney Bailey
- William Anderson
- Charlie Ambrose
- Christina Alston
- Mary Allen
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