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2026 Summer Faculty Project Grants

2026 Summer Faculty Project Grants

These inspiring faculty were awarded $4,000 UROP Team Project Grants to support teams of ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ 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:ÌýBiochemistry
Understanding How People Learn From Spherical Visualizations
  • Mentor:Grace Bennett-Pierre
  • Department:ÌýCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science
Exploring Stakeholder Perspective Taking in Engineering Design
  • Mentor:Grace Burleson
  • Department:ÌýMechanical Engineering
Insect Diversity and Abundance in Apple Tree as Ecosystem Service Study
  • Mentor:Lisa Corwin
  • Department:ÌýEcology & Evolutionary Biology
Changing Skies: Writing Through the Climate Crisis
  • Mentor:JayEllis
  • Department:ÌýProgram for Writing and Rhetoric
Summer Internship in Contemplative Arts and Mindful Living
  • Mentor:HollyGayley
  • Department:ÌýReligious Studies
Critical Cartographies of the San Luis Valley: Mapping Identity through Acequias and Vernacular Socio-Ecological Practices
  • Mentor:JuanGrisales
  • Department:ÌýEnvironmental Design
Student-Driven & Constructed Community in Development Applications
  • Mentor:Michael Hannigan
  • Department:ÌýMechanical Engineering
SWIMS: An Animated Film
  • Mentor:TaraKnight
  • Department:ÌýCritical Media Practices
Effects of chronic psychosocial stress on hippocampal neuroinflammation and behavioral coping style
  • Mentor:Christopher Lowry
  • Department:ÌýIntegrative Physiology
Mountaintop animal responses to climate change
  • Mentor:Christy McCain
  • Department:ÌýEcology & Evolutionary Biology
Canaries in the coal mine: maintaining long-term research in Colorado’s mountain lakes
  • Mentor:Isabella Oleksy
  • Department:ÌýInstitute of Arctic and Alpine Research; Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Using RNA-based fluorescent biosensors to study metabolic changes in breast cancer
  • Mentor:AmyPalmer
  • Department:ÌýBiochemistry
Defining how zinc regulation is altered in breast cancer
  • Mentor:AmyPalmer
  • Department:ÌýBiochemistry
Moth pollination in the Rocky Mountains
  • Mentor:RyanSt. Laurent
  • Department:ÌýEcology & Evolutionary Biology; Natural History Museum
Anticipating climate effects in Boulder grasslands: conservation and restoration in a changing world.
  • Mentor:Katharine Suding
  • Department:ÌýEcology & Evolutionary Biology
The seeds for fire-smart grassland restoration: training the next generation of community-engaged ecologists through community partnerships
  • Mentor:Katharine Suding
  • Department:ÌýEcology & Evolutionary Biology
Machine learning Assisted Vascular Materials Design
  • Mentor:WeiTan
  • Department:ÌýMechanical Engineering; Bioengineering
Impact Playback Ensemble: Summer Outreach Residency and Program Development
  • Mentor:JimWalker
  • Department:ÌýUndergraduate Enrichment Programs

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Details

UROP Team Project Grants support research and creative projects involving two or more ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ 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

Student Grant Award Rates

2026 Summer

36.27%

2026-27 Academic Year

69.61%

Faculty Grants

Faculty Grant Award Rates

2026 Summer

70.37%

2026-27 Academic Year

76.00%

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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