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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:

• Pathfinder Award (1992).  University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, & The Arts
• Certificate of Recognition (1992).  University of Michigan. Office of the Vice President for Minority Affairs
• Community Prevention Partnership Award (1995). State of Michigan. Special Tribute
• Theodore M. Hesburgh Award (1996). Certificate of Excellence for Faculty Development to Enhance Undergraduate Teaching
• NSF Recognition Award for the Integration of Research and Teaching (1997). Shared recognition with U-M's Women In Science Program
• Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (1999).

UROP Sponsors

UROP is funded from the U-M 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 Irvin Stern 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