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Welcome!
One of the most
valuable resources Caltech offers is research, particularly
how much complex and mentally stimulating research is available
to undergraduates. While many Caltech students take advantage
of those opportunities by pursuing a SURF in the summer,
professors' labs are still operating during the school year.
Thus, students can benefit from the research learning experience
by participating in academic year research as well. Based
on feedback from the Spring 2007 Student-Faculty Conference,
students want an easy way of finding out about academic year
research opportunities and faculty want to recruit more undergraduates
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What is UROH?
In a collaborative effort between the Student-Faculty
Programs (SFP) Office and the Academics
and Research Committee (ARC),
the Undergraduate Research
Opportunities Handbook (UROH)
is meant to encourage students to pursue academic year research
by providing easily accessible descriptions of projects that
faculty are offering for the academic year. The format of
the postings is similar to the SURF Announcements of Opportunity,
with some additional information about how many hours per
week are expected and whether students can conduct the research
for academic units, work-study, or pay.
Students, please note that some professors who are interested
in academic year undergraduate collaborators may not
post on this site. Do not hesitate to take initiative
and contact faculty who do not have UROH postings; you
can still ask them questions about possible opportunities
and other items such as how many hours they expect you
to work and what compensation you can expect. Also, the
information provided about these opportunities is not
meant to substitute for an initial meeting between the
students and faculty in which you make sure that your
expectations are aligned.
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What can be found here?
UROH is an on-line system that allows Caltech faculty and
JPL scientists to post academic-year and summer, non-SURF,
research opportunities for students. These opportunities
are for academic credit, work-study, or pay. These are
research opportunities, NOT job postings, internships,
or SURFs.
For information on jobs or internships please visit the
Career Development Center site (www.career.caltech.edu)
and for SURF opportunities please visit the Student-Faculty
Programs Office site (www.sfp.caltech.edu).
Please note that these opportunities are for Caltech students
only. |
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Institute of Technology | Last update:
April 28, 2009
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