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UROP surveys team grant recipients and their student team members near the end of grant terms.听This report听highlights results of the final surveys from the Summer 2022听term.听
听Use the tabs at the top to see the results.
Sections
- Personal Reflection
- Mentor Evaluation
- Testimonials
- Projects
麻豆影院 UROP Team Grants
Team Grants听provide funding听for research and creative projects involving two or more CU 麻豆影院 undergraduates.听 These grants听are intended to create compelling opportunities for students to step into exciting projects, develop skills, make connections and inspire inquiry. Recipients听have the option to include their project as an "open opportunity" on the听website and in promotion among听communities supporting historically minoritized students.
Personal Reflection
This experience...
Contributed to my professional development.
听91.30%听Yes
8.70%听 Maybe
0.00%听 No
Contributed to my personal development.
100%听Yes
0.00%听 Maybe
0.00%听 No
Made good use of my time.
听95.65%听Yes
4.35%听 Maybe
0.00%听 No
Refined my goals and clarified my career path.
86.96%听Yes
13.04%听 Maybe
0.00%听 No
Increased my self-confidence.
86.96%听Yes
13.04%听 Maybe
0.00%听 No
n=23
Mentor Evaluation
Scale
5 Excellent 听1 Poor
My mentor...
Communicated clearly.
听4.78/5
Average
Explained expectations fully.
听4.70/5
Average
Provided opportunities for input.
听4.74/5
Average
Was available for questions.
听4.78/5
Average
Supported my professional goals.
听4.70/5
Average
Was approachable and friendly.
听4.93/5
Average
Recommend to others?
100% Yes
0% No
n=27
Testimonials
Team Member's Testimonials
This experience has been positively transformative for me! I genuinely don't think I've ever felt so excited about my academic path. My mentor and his graduate students created an amazing experience for me. This summer reinforced that research is something I want to do for the rest of my life. I've grown as a scientist and a collaborator鈥攁nd learned to think outside the box.
Jacob Ziegler
My mentor always makes me feel valued and included. She encourages me to learn and does not make me feel bad when I struggle. She is an amazing role model both in the lab and in her personal life. I also love the fieldwork component of my research. It helps me see how the work applies and why it matters, which is important to me in a job.
Kiersten Maxwell
My mentor was extremely helpful with engaging me throughout the semester and made sure that I was able to learn. His approach is more hands-off, which lets me learn as I did more things, but if there were more complex issues, he would offer advice.
Gianni Bonnici
Working with my mentor was amazing! He was the first mentor I have ever had, and it was a great experience. He never left my side when I needed help and allowed me to learn many things.
Lucas Guerrero
This experience helped me figure out where I want to go professionally.
AJ Thomas
My mentor鈥檚 passion for group unity provided a safe space to grow as an academic in a diverse community. Every part of the project from real experience in astrophysics research to graduate school advice and getting familiar with the daily life of a professor has been beyond valuable.
Olivia Blevins
The most valuable part of working with my mentor was feeling respected and valued on this team. I really appreciate how he is welcoming of all, and how he sees mistakes as a way to learn鈥攏ot a reason to yell at someone.
Sarina Borden
My mentor is very kind and approachable. I always feel I can come to her with questions.
Sam Lippincott
Working with the iGEM team has been an amazing experience! I appreciated the opportunity to learn from others and work in a great environment!!
Zani Liddell
My mentor was always enthusiastic to help everyone develop their ideas and worked with them to ensure that they could effectively express their knowledge and abilities within the group.
Jordan Kassanoff
Excerpts from Summer 2022 Team Member's Final Survey
Team Mentor's Testimonials
UROP funding was especially valuable for the students and was critical to completing the research. The accessibility of the field sties was uncertain at the beginning of the project and the sampling plan needed to be modified. Rough terrain and accessibility to mountain streams caused the team to modify the sampling plan. The UROP students actively participated in discussing the best options for the project and how to execute them without jeopardizing safety and scientific integrity.
Diane McKnight
The Team Grant allowed the undergraduates to become independent in the laboratory and take ownership on several projects. These were their first experiences in a laboratory setting, and they will continue to work with myself and another PhD student during the academic year. Due to their summer productivity, both undergraduates will receive co-authorship on future conference presentations, if not potential manuscripts.
Michael Baratta
This was a really great experience. I liked the flexibility of being able to manage the money from my own research account and compensate students fairly for the 'grunt-work' of my research: transcribing.听 I had a nice experience with the undergraduate students and think it benefitted them in terms of summer pay and learning new skills. It benefitted me by keeping me on top of my research and, of course, I have transcripts now that I can use as data for future papers.听 I'm excited to continue my project with my school year UROP funds!
Natasha Shrikant
Exposing undergraduates to broad scientific research鈥攃ritical data collection, state-of-the-art instrument, and potential supervisors鈥攊s invaluable and provides a great opportunity to refine their paths ahead.听 Collaboration with very thoughtful, enthusiastic, and energetic undergraduate research assistants also made our work a success!
Ginikanda Ilangakoon
UROP provides an opportunity for students to be compensated for their hard work and team contributions while exploring interests and gaining experience in their field of study.听
Ambika Kamath
UROP was a great way to bring in new members to our research lab, train emerging researchers and support the capacity of our team!
Karen Bailey
UROP allowed us to get the labelling and curation of an important grasshopper collection underway and provided the opportunity for the students to contribute to research and writing of a short article on this collection鈥攁nd the people who made it.
Deane Bowers
The experience with UROP Team Grants is excellent, and I appreciate the surveys that are designed to assess outcomes. Students were recruited from underrepresented communities, and I expect that the team will continue to work together into next fall.听听
Christopher Lowry
CU's iGEM team is made possible with UROP's continued support!
Brian DeDecker
Excerpts from Summer 2022 Team Mentor's Final Survey
Projects
The Origin and Impact of M Dwarf Flares
Meredith MacGregor, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
Adolescents, Smartphones, and Social Media: Promoting Positive Relationships
Annie Margaret, ATLAS Institute
Mitochondrial Form, Function, and Movement
Halil Aydin, Biochemistry
Characterizing zinc regulatory proteins to define how breast cancer cells proliferate in high zinc.
Amy Palmer, Biochemistry and BioFrontiers Institute
Creating a user-supported open-access climate database for the Indian sub-continent
Atreyee Bhattacharya, College of Arts and Sciences
Negotiating the "refugee" identity in contexts of migration: A discourse analysis of interactions among recently resettled refugees
Natasha Shrikant, Communication
Forest recovery within mosaics of fire, drought, and insect outbreak in the Southern Rockies using high resolution drone and field surveys
Ginikanda Ilangakoon, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Rare earth elements in Rocky Mountain streams
Diane McKnight, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
How Does Habituation and Sensitization to Humans Affect Behavioral Interactions? An Experimental Approach in Sceloporus Lizards
Ambika Kamath, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Assessing the effects of complex developmental environments on fitness across lifespans
Ambika Kamath, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
The Community Ecology of Community Gardens- How arthropods impact urban garden success
Julian Resasco, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Temporal variation of chickadee breeding along an elevational gradient
Scott Taylor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Curating and Publicizing a Unique Grasshopper Collection
Deane Bowers, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and CU Museum of Natural History
Antiracism in action: participatory mapping of cultural resources with 麻豆影院鈥檚 BIPOC community
Shawhin Roudbari, Environmental Design
Defining and applying equity and justice in climate adaptation research
Karen Bailey, Environmental Studies
Circadian misalignment, inflammation, and PTSD
Christopher Lowry, Integrative Physiology
Microbes sustain youthful serum testosterone levels and testicular size in aged mice
Christopher Lowry, Integrative Physiology
Characterization of the effects of soil-derived bacteria on immune cell populations and stress resilience
Christopher Lowry, Integrative Physiology
Computational Design of Robots
Robert MacCurdy, Mechanical Engineering
CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 iGEM Team (Bioengineering Therapeutic Plants)
Brian DeDecker, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Development of a Mentored Undergraduate Run Research Program in Molecular Biology
Pamela Harvey, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Building a resilient brain: Neural circuits that shape the response to challenge
Michael Baratta, Psychology and Neuroscience
Healing Justice: A Participatory Research Project
Ben Kirshner, School of Education
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