Institutional partners are universities that are committed to scaling undergraduate research. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.
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 universities and colleges, the program increases undergraduate participation in research without increasing departmental training workloads, elevates the quality of research mentoring provided by graduate student mentors, and contributes to a more robust and effective research ecosystem.
University and college computing departments are encouraged to participate in UR2PhD as institutional partners.
Institutional partners are schools, or departments, that work with the UR2PhD program to amplify and diversify the existing research infrastructure at their institution.
The UR2PhD program enables departments to increase the number of students receiving research training without substantially increasing faculty workloads. Institutional partners benefit by receiving priority access to program activities, in addition to support from CRA.
Institutional partners are committing to making a concerted effort to recruit, support, and mentor more first-time researchers. Partners are expected to designate a local coordinator, who will manage institutional recruiting and engagement efforts.
Local coordinators are responsible for setting up a process for advertising, recruiting, and selecting researchers and mentors.
Institutional partners commit to participating for a year, but all partners are welcome to continue to participate for longer periods.
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
