UROP Celebrates the 2023 Mentor Award Recipients

UROP听celebrates the recipients of this year's Mentor Awards, which recognize CU 麻豆影院 faculty and research staff for mentoring undergraduate research and creative projects.

These exemplary mentors were selected from numerous student nominations speaking to the transformative value of mentorship.

High-Impact Learning

UROP celebrates the impact mentors make at the intersection of scholarship and teaching.听We听know that what happens in partnership with mentors听is transformative and empowering鈥攁nd well-documented as a high-impact practice. In partnership with mentors, undergraduates are moving the university鈥檚 research mission forward and continue to provide real-time solutions to local, national and global challenges鈥攁ll while driving innovations to further the public good.

2023 Mentor Awards

Christine Brennan

Assistant Professor
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Nominated by Abigail Matthews

I decided I wanted to pursue a career in research, not only because she empowered me to do so, but she also made it realistic. I hope to follow in her footsteps one day and help students as much as she helped me.

Research Associate
Vignesh Kasinath Lab, Biochemistry

Nominated by Malavika Vinod

Ash is very open about their research and experiences.听 Getting to know about their daily life in a research lab, their hobbies, and the experiences they have had听is what got me interested in research as a career.

Jordy Bouwman

Assistant Professor
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) / Chemistry

Nominated by Jackson Cahn

I learned how collaborative research is鈥攚ith people coming together to discuss and converge onto hypotheses and solutions. This was something really new for me, and I think it will benefit my professional development.