UROC Innovation Scholars

Eligibility 

• Must be a STEAM major
• Commit to three semesters of ongoing research
• Complete an eportfolio
• Attend monthly cohort meetings
• Minimum GPA of 2.75

Applications open towards the end of the term. Check in with UROC staff for more information. 

Student Successes

Amira Colon, Statistics

"Thanks to the UROC Innovation Scholars program Colon has been able to use a MacBook Pro for her work on the research project. She said that before she joined the program, she only had a Chromebook, which was insufficient for running the advanced software that she needed for the project. She was unable to afford a MacBook on her own, but, thanks to the program, she now has a MacBook Pro that allows her to “do the data analysis that I really want to do.”

Colon explained that working on the eportfolio has made her more confident as a scholar. She said, “I'm just more confident in like, putting myself on display, I guess. Being proud of work that I've done and being able to have a little more creative freedom and how I want to, like express that to the world.”

Berenice Lemus, Business Administration

Before joining the program, Lemus, a first-generation Latina, felt more isolated. “I didn’t really know what the research community was all about,” said Lemus. After a semester in the program, she now feels part of a supportive cohort of undergraduate researchers.

Lemus values having the opportunity to share her research with other young scholars. “It kind of made it seem like, hey, my research matters, too. It's interesting. And it's important. I’m kind of building that sense of what I’m doing matters, and I’m having that support from other scholars who are doing the same thing,” she explained.