UROP continued to support undergraduate research and creative work across the UHM campus in Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 through our three student-funding opportunities. Entering Research and Creative Work UROP’s Entering Research and Creative Work (ERC) opportunity provides funding for…
A few years ago, UH Mānoa alumna Ronja Steinbach (‘22) began investigating a bold idea as an undergraduate: could fungi from Hawaiʻi’s coastal waters help solve the global plastic crisis? With support from UROP, Ronja led a project that explored…
UROP’s Mentoring Grant for Summer Undergraduate Research and Creative Work was designed to involve more undergraduate students in research and creative work through UROP-funded, mentor-created summertime projects. One hundred percent of the funding is applied to supporting student work through…
The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research and Creative Work, established in 2020 by UH Mānoa's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, recognizes two exceptional mentors each year—one from a STEM field…
Research targeting the revitalization of ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i, cross-departmental collaboration, and a scholarly approach that centers interpersonal dynamics—these elements and more coalesce to form the Mentoring Grant project by Drs. N. Ha‘alilio Solomon and Andrew Cheng that one proposal reviewer called…
Summer 2024 marked the conclusion of the data-driven agriculture Research and Extension Experience for Undergraduates (REEU) hosted by UHM’s College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resilience (CTAHR). Jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and National Institute of…
Four seemingly disparate characters scattered across the globe, all brought together by an art-smuggling ring concealing something far more sinister, their story unfolding in non-linear fashion across different points of time and from different points of view. These are the…
The semesterly Undergraduate Showcase is an opportunity for UHM undergraduate students to present the results of their mentored research and creative work projects to their peers, faculty, and the general public. UROP partners with the Honors Program to hold these…
UROP is thrilled to announce a new funding opportunity for undergraduate students engaging in research or creative work projects abroad in Summer 2025. Thanks to a generous grant from the Tyler Center for Global Studies (Tyler Center), UROP will provide…
Aloha mai kākou! I hope that everyone is returning to Mānoa from the holiday break refreshed, and ready for the opportunities and challenges that await all of us in the Spring 2025 semester. In addition to welcoming all of you…