The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) is open to School of Nursing BSN students to work with a UMN faculty mentor. UROP projects allow students to explore academic interests beyond the classroom, get hands-on experience with research, develop student-faculty relationships, and help you to refine your academic and career goals. If funded, BSN students work with a UMN faculty mentor on a research project. UROP provides a scholarship of up to $1,500 for approximately 120 hours of research and expense money of up to $300 for project related expenses to students.
Visit the UROP website for more information including peer drop-in hours, a student researcher checklist, the UROP application process as well as examples of previous UROP projects.
Explore the Think like a Researcher guide, attending a Think Like a Researcher workshop (sign-up to be notified), scheduling a Peer Research Consultation and/or subscribing to the Undergraduate Research Newsletter
UROP applications are accepted a various points throughout the year.
| Application Deadline | Project Start Date |
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| October 11 |
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| ~February | following June (Summer Term) |
| ~February |
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~July |
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Another on campus research opportunity is CTSI's Pathways to Research Program (PReP). A summertime program on the Twin Cities campus that provides underrepresented undergraduate students with knowledge, skills, and experience in translational science and health equity research through a structured core curriculum including a mentored research project (+ a stipend!). Applications are typically due in January. Information will be available in November. The program runs for 12 weeks.
NIH offers summer internship programs for students as well as a postbaccalaureate program. Or visit How NIH can help you become a research scientist.
- The eight-week summer research internship offers students opportunities at either the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center or laboratory/research projects on the main (Bethesda) campus and typically includes a stipend. Applications open in mid-November. Note that the program is highly competitive (in 2017 1,300 selected/71,000 applied)--early applications are strongly encouraged.
- The NIH postbac IRTA program provides recent graduates an opportunity to spend one or two years performing full-time research at the NIH.