For Graduate Students
UR2PhD is building capacity in computer science to advance the representation of women and gender-marginalized students, especially those who identify as Black, Latinx, and Native/Indigenous.
The Undergraduate Research to PhD program (“UR2PhD”, pronounced ‘you are to PhD’) aims to ensure that undergraduate students have access to high-quality research opportunities, positive mentorship experiences, and information about graduate study and research pathways.
For graduate students, the program offers a chance to acquire essential mentoring skills, develop research projects, and establish a supportive network with peers across various universities.
Program Features for Graduate Students
Take our Graduate Student Mentorship Training Course, a virtual, synchronous course that prepares participants to provide culturally-responsive mentorship. First-time participants who complete the course will receive a $1,000 stipend.
Eligibility is limited to people actively mentoring undergraduates who are participating in research; priority is given to mentors of participants in the research training course.
Meet UR2PhD Graduate Students
The program helped me strengthen the unique skill set of aligning research goals across different fields … There’s so much rigorous work being done in the humanities and social sciences that can help build human-centered technical systems, and this program helped me see that connection.
This was an incredibly enriching program that forced me to take a closer look at the way I approached mentoring. I would absolutely recommend this to anyone who’s overseeing undergraduate/graduate students or really anyone that’s in or seeking a leadership role.
I had a great experience participating in the UR2PhD Graduate Mentor Training Course, and I would definitely recommend participation to others. The best part for me was working with the two talented undergraduate students on my project… Working with them kept me motivated to complete the study, and our resulting paper was accepted to an international conference… On the way home one of the undergraduate students talked about how much she enjoyed doing research, and her new-found goal for attaining a Ph.D. It means so much to me that I had a part in inspiring someone else to chase that dream.
UR2PhD: Undergraduate Research Methods Course by Computing Research Association’s UR2PhD Program. This work, “UR2PhD Undergraduate Research Methods Course”, is adapted from “Early Research Scholars Program” by Christine Alvarado, UC San Diego, used under CC BY 4.0. “UR2PhD Undergraduate Research Scholars” is licensed under CC BY 4.0 by the Computing Research Association’s UR2PhD Program and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
UR2PhD: Graduate Student Mentor Training Course by Computing Research Association’s UR2PhD Program is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
