Page 6 - Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Proceedings 2017-18

UROP Overview

2017–18

In the 2017-18 academic year, we are glad to see the Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Program (UROP) continued to thrive amongst undergraduate students and faculty members. Over
450 UG students joined the program during 2017-18, a 12% increase from the previous academic
year. These students were supervised by 140 faculty members who served as a UROP advisor
voluntarily.

Through the UROP Faculty Support Grant, UROP students have a chance to taste how to apply for
research funding by submitting a joint application with their supervisors. In 2017-18, more than
90 applications were received and reviewed by the UROP Office and the UROP Advisory
Board. In total, over $500,000 were awarded to support the UROP projects.

2018

Mr. Armin and The Mr. Armin and Mrs. Lilian Kitchell Undergraduate Research
Mrs. Lilian Kitchell Award and the UROP Faculty Research Award continued to honor the
outstanding achievements by UROP students and their supervisors in
Undergraduate
2018. We gladly received 30 nominations from UROP faculty
Research Award
supervisors to recognize their students’ research accomplishments
and UROP Faculty through the award. Nine of them made it to the finalists and six of them
Research Award were named as awardees.

The Award Presentation Ceremony was held on April 19, 2018 at the
Cheung On Tak Lecture Theater (LTE) at the HKUST. The UROP Week
2018 during April 16 to 20 exhibited these students’ research results and
introduced the UROP to more undergraduate students and faculty
members in order to encourage their participation in the program.

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