UROP relies on a team of volunteers to help ensure that all applications receive fair and informed evaluations—and that projects conform to the highest ethical standards.
We encourage those interested in serving on the review board to read the information here and sign-up using the interest form at any time. UROP will contact the interest list in late February to confirm and provide additional instructions.
Sign up: Review Board Interest
UROP typically sends proposals around mid-March and requests scores approximately two weeks later.
Cycle SU23-AY24
Proposals are sent by email as PDF files and score sheets as Excel Workbooks.
Tenured/tenure-track, research faculty, contract instructors and postdocs at CU Boulder are eligible to evaluate UROP proposals.
Due to the distribution of applications, we have the most need in these areas:
Applications are evaluated in a double-blind review process and tracked using “sort numbers” that correspond to the rows on the score sheets.
Guidelines require applicants to remove all personally identifiable information in their proposals, specifically that "proposals must not contain the student's or mentor's personal information (name and gender).”
The UROP Review Board is organized into six disciplinary categories that align with the project proposal categories selected by students and faculty when applying.
When you sign-up, we invite you to select the category that best describes the methods and topics you are most comfortable evaluating–and provide information about your subject-area expertise on the form.
Mentors endorsing student proposals and/or submitting Team Grant applications may still serve on the Review Board and score proposals.
Reviewers may skip scoring proposals as they present conflicts of interest by selecting COI on their score sheets. These proposals will be evaluated and scored by other reviewers.
Student Grants
Team Grants
Check out our scoring reports for summaries of the proposal scores and application decisions from previous review cycles.
