2026 Summer Faculty Project Grants
These inspiring faculty were awarded $4,000 UROP Team Project Grants to support teams of 91´«Ã½ undergraduates on a wide range of projects this summer.
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19
Projects
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68
Students
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$76,000
Funding
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11
Departments
ÌýÌý2026 Summer Team Grants
Mapping the Electric-Field–Responsive Landscape of Cell Surface Proteins
- Mentor: Nathan Belliveau
- Department: Biochemistry
Understanding How People Learn From Spherical Visualizations
- Mentor: Grace Bennett-Pierre
- Department: Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science
Exploring Stakeholder Perspective Taking in Engineering Design
- Mentor: Grace Burleson
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
Insect Diversity and Abundance in Apple Tree as Ecosystem Service Study
- Mentor: Lisa Corwin
- Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Changing Skies: Writing Through the Climate Crisis
- Mentor: Jay Ellis
- Department: Program for Writing and Rhetoric
Summer Internship in Contemplative Arts and Mindful Living
- Mentor: Holly Gayley
- Department: Religious Studies
Critical Cartographies of the San Luis Valley: Mapping Identity through Acequias and Vernacular Socio-Ecological Practices
- Mentor: Juan Grisales
- Department: Environmental Design
Student-Driven & Constructed Community in Development Applications
- Mentor: Michael Hannigan
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
SWIMS: An Animated Film
- Mentor: Tara Knight
- Department: Critical Media Practices
Effects of chronic psychosocial stress on hippocampal neuroinflammation and behavioral coping style
- Mentor: Christopher Lowry
- Department: Integrative Physiology
Mountaintop animal responses to climate change
- Mentor: Christy McCain
- Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Canaries in the coal mine: maintaining long-term research in Colorado’s mountain lakes
- Mentor: Isabella Oleksy
- Department: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research; Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Using RNA-based fluorescent biosensors to study metabolic changes in breast cancer
- Mentor: Amy Palmer
- Department: Biochemistry
Defining how zinc regulation is altered in breast cancer
- Mentor: Amy Palmer
- Department: Biochemistry
Moth pollination in the Rocky Mountains
- Mentor: Ryan St. Laurent
- Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Natural History Museum
Anticipating climate effects in Boulder grasslands: conservation and restoration in a changing world.
- Mentor: Katharine Suding
- Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
The seeds for fire-smart grassland restoration: training the next generation of community-engaged ecologists through community partnerships
- Mentor: Katharine Suding
- Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Machine learning Assisted Vascular Materials Design
- Mentor: Wei Tan
- Department: Mechanical Engineering; Bioengineering
Impact Playback Ensemble: Summer Outreach Residency and Program Development
- Mentor: Jim Walker
- Department: Undergraduate Enrichment Programs
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Details
UROP Team Project Grants support research and creative projects involving two or more 91´«Ã½ undergraduates. Tenured/tenure-track research and teaching faculty, professional researchers and practitioners, and postdoctoral scholars at the University of Colorado Boulder 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.
ÌýÌýSpring 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
ÌýÌýÌýIssue: 2026 Summer & 2026-27 Academic Year UROP Grants
Categories: UROP Announcements