Awards & Sponsors
Recipients of the 2008 UROP Outstanding Research Mentorship Award pose with the UROP students who nominated them.
UROP is now recognized as a model program for engaging undergraduate students in research. In 2002 U.S. News and World Report ranked UROP Number 1 in the category, Undergraduate Research/Creative Projects. UROP has consistently ranked at the top of this category in the ensuing years.
The program has also received the following awards:
1992 Pathfinder Award. University of Michigan. College of Literature Science & The Arts.
1992 Certificate of Recognition. University of Michigan. Office of the Vice President for Minority Affairs
1995 State of Michigan. Community Prevention Partnership Award. Special Tribute
1996 Theodore M. Hesburgh Award. Certificate of Excellence for Faculty Development to Enhance Undergraduate Teaching
1997 NSF Recognition Award for the Integration of Research and Teaching
( Shared recognition with UM's Women In Science Program)
1999 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring
UROP Sponsors
UROP is funded from the UM General Fund and a variety of private individuals and foundations. Various private and corporate foundations have been instrumental in providing financial support to UROP from its inception. Current benefactors include:
Amgen Foundation
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Intel Foundation
Johnson and Johnson
Microsoft Foundation
Motorola Foundation
Pfizer Foundation
Towsley Foundation
Scott and Judy Brown
Fred and Eileen Cohen
Ralph and Audrey Goldberg
Paul Goldstein
Douglas I. Kalish
Tomoko Shoji Krishna Summer Fellowship Fund
Robert D. and Janet E. Neary Fund
Redlich and Horwitz Community Scholars Fund
Robinson Family Science Scholarls Fund
Terry and Tori Rosen Family Fund
Irvin Stern Foundation
