Benefits of Engagement

  • Discover new interests
  • Explore potential pathways
  • Clarify career plans
  • Develop transferable job skills
  • Practice disciplinary concepts
  • Cultivate empowering networks
  • Engage your creativity
  • Build self-confidence
  • Gain independence
  • Refine critical thinking
  • Effect change in your communities
  • Find your resilience
  • Inspire your thinking
  • Have fun
  • —and other good stuff.

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Call for Participants

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.

Register for UROP's Sidewalk Symposium by Oct.5, 2026

Celebrating 40 Years

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.