Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)

“Dormio takes dream research to a new level, interacting directly with an individual’s dreaming brain and manipulating the actual content of their dreams,” says Robert Stickgold, director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

A new way to control experimentation with dreams

Device not only helps record dream reports, but also guides dreams toward particular themes.

July 21, 2020

Have power drill, will travel. MIT student Sreya Vangara is completing her research into testing superconductors for a fusion tokamak at home.

At home with fusion research

Hundreds of miles from campus, Sreya Vangara recalibrates her approach to laboratory research and other MIT commitments.

July 8, 2020

“As a MechE student, I think about technical solutions to our world’s biggest problems," says Claudia Chen '20. "As a CMS student, I think about the effects and implications these technical solutions have on our society and our media ecosystems.”

Meet the MIT bilinguals: Claudia Chen '20 combines creative, humanistic, and technical fields

Recent MIT graduate will apply her dual comparative media studies and mechanical engineering degree to work in the technology industry.

June 18, 2020

Left to right: Michelle Bai '20 (economics and political science), Frances Parker-Hale '20 (political science), and Nwanacho Nwana '20 (political science and management science.)

Recent political science graduates see brighter days ahead

Leveraging unique undergraduate opportunities, new MIT political science alumni pursue bright prospects.

June 4, 2020

Students participating in MIT Quest for Intelligence-funded UROP projects include: (clockwise from top left) Alon Kosowsky-Sachs, Isaac Wolverton, Kuan Wei Huang, and Karen Gu.

Undergraduates develop next-generation intelligence tools

UROP students explore applications in robotics, health care, language understanding, and nuclear engineering.

May 26, 2020

“The foundation for teaching ethics at MIT is for students to have a sense of proximity to social and ethical issues,” says Milo Phillips-Brown, a postdoc in philosophy. “The idea of having this class be so student-driven is that this allows them to come to ethics on their own terms; they follow what’s important to them and develop an inner motivation to be involved.”

Infusing ethics into experiential learning

In a new undergraduate course, students explore the ethical dimensions of their experiences.

May 8, 2020

Studying science has made her a better historian, Charlotte Minsky says. And studying history has made her a better scientist.

Meet the MIT bilinguals: Dual history and planetary science major Charlotte Minsky

Studying history has made her a better planetary scientist, Minsky says. And studying science has made her a better historian.

April 28, 2020

The Covid-19 global pandemic sent Steven Truong home from MIT to Minnesota, away from friends and colleagues and to where his Vietnamese family relies on his comparatively rich medical knowledge for information.

Engineering student Steven Truong draws upon MIT experiences to navigate Covid-19

MIT senior helps his immigrant family address medical matters while balancing his school work.

April 21, 2020

The 2020 MacVicar Faculty Fellows are: (clockwise from top left) Polina Anikeeva, Jacob White, William Tisdale, and Mary Fuller.

2020 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named

Anikeeva, Fuller, Tisdale, and White receive MIT's highest honor in undergraduate teaching.

March 9, 2020

Students participating in MIT Quest for Intelligence-funded UROP projects include: (clockwise from top left) Nicole Thumma, Joanne Yuan, Julian Viera, Andrei Dumitrescu, Pablo Alejo-Aguirre, and Dolapo Adedokun.

Bringing artificial intelligence into the classroom, research lab, and beyond

Through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, students work to build AI tools with impact.

February 13, 2020

“Assuming I continue to graduate school, I think I would like to be involved in a research effort," says MIT junior Analyce Hernandez, "like the one I’m working on in dark matter, where I uncloak big mysteries and discover something fundamental about the way the universe works.”

Analyce Hernandez: Uncloaking big mysteries

Junior double major seeks to piece together puzzles of the universe, particle by particle.

February 12, 2020

Biology major Rachel Shen sees what most of us can’t: the impurities in our water, the matrices of plant cells, and the invisible processes that cycle nutrients in the oceans.

Testing the waters

MIT sophomore Rachel Shen looks for microscopic solutions to big environmental challenges.

January 28, 2020

PJ Hernandez (left) and Jackson Gray (right) build circuits in the lab of Professor James Kirtley (background) as part of their summer energy UROP. One of the problems they worked on together was how to develop an improved cell voltage balancer, a device used to extend the life of batteries by working to ensure that cells remain evenly charged as the battery cycles.

Collaboration adds an extra dimension to undergraduate research

Students on UROP teams agree that teamwork speeds up the research.

September 18, 2019

Course 18C student Sonia Reilly (right) stands with her UROP research advisor, Sai Ravela, in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, where she worked on a machine learning project this summer.

Computing in Earth science: a non-linear path

UROP student Sonia Reilly studies the math of machine learning to improve predictions of natural disasters.

September 11, 2019

The MIT Machine Intelligence Community board and executive committee

Want to learn how to train an artificial intelligence model? Ask a friend.

MIT Machine Intelligence Community introduces students to nuts and bolts of machine learning.

June 25, 2019

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