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By engaging your open questions in conversation with mentors, you can clarify your values and develop your identity—which might still feel like an open question. Your curiosity is a powerful tool that is unique to you because it’s an expression of your individual identity with all its' intersections, providing you a singular lens to examine your context (and a way for others to see new possibilities). By engaging your open questions in conversation with mentors, you can clarify your values and develop your identity—which might still feel like an open question. Your curiosity is a powerful tool that is unique to you because it’s an expression of your individual identity with all its' intersections, providing you a singular lens to examine your context (and a way for others to see new possibilities). You are an intersection of knowledge and ways of knowing informed by lived experience with a unique lens for the interpretation of information.
Register for UROP's Sidewalk Symposium by Oct. 5, 2026
Developed and hosted in Boulder since 2018, UROP's Sidewalk Symposium invites undergraduates to share their research and creative presentations with chalk on campus walkways. UROP welcomes undergraduates at any stage of their project to participate.
CU Boulder has an expansive history engaging undergraduates in the research and creative life of the campus dating to the creation of UROP in 1986.
