Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center (UROC) at CSU Monterey Bay

UROC engages students of all majors in undergraduate research to build students’ educational ownership, intellectual vibrancy, and scholarly identity. We achieve this through mentored undergraduate research; rigorous, authentic, and calibrated scholarly activities; and the development of social capital.

Read about our Mission, Vision, & Values, including our commitment to diversity.

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Updates: 

• NEW BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER: Designing and Implementing a Successful Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Program (Unruh, Haeger, Banks & Dong). Routledge Press, to be released October 2024

• Six current and former CSUMB students have earned GRFP awards!

• Three UROC students named 2024 Goldwater Scholars!

• 2023 30th Anniversary CSU-LSAMP PROUD report

• 2023 CSUMB Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activities Competition

• 2023 Summer Research Symposium info, including program, research posters, and talk abstracts.

• 2022 CSU-LSAMP PROUD report

• UROC launches 2023 Apple Scholars program with grant award from CSUN’s Global HSI Equity Innovation Hub initiative

• CSUMB receives $1.3 million dollar, 5-year McNair award (2022-2027)!

• CSU-LSAMP Costa Rica Research Expedition is back up and running in summer 2022!

• Note: CSUMB will be returning to in-person instruction/activities in Spring 2022, with a an updated vaccination policy in place.

• UROC students Scrivner and Winter named as 2022 Goldwater Scholars!

• UROC & College of Science team up with UCSC on new USDA-funded project to bolster opportunities for student engagement in food/ag sciences!

• 2021 Summer Research Symposium program.

• Two UROCers awarded Sally Casanova scholarships!

• UROC students winners at 2021 CSU Student Research Competition!

• Congratulations to UROC & McNair Scholar Kai Kaholoaa for being named a 2021 Goldwater Scholar!

• UROC student headed to Wageningen University for grad program in organic agriculture.

• CSU-LSAMP PROUD report 2020/2021

• Join UROC in celebrating National Undergraduate Research Week 2021.

• McNair Scholar Selina Espinoza named Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar!

• UROC students Sarah Ricks and Selina Espinoza among winners at 2020 CSU Research Competition!

• Congratulations to the CSUMB 2020 graduates!

• Congrats to UROC students Nicholas Heyer and Samantha Miller on being named 2020 Goldwater Scholars!

• Fall Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity Showcase November 7th

• CSU-LSAMP PROUD report 2019

• UROC hosts 6th Annual Summer Symposium with MB Regional Ocean Sciences REU and NPS

• UROCer Selena Velasquez awarded Sally Casanova CSU pre-doctoral scholarship!

• Congratulations to UROC student Victoria Assad on being awarded a 2019 Goldwater Scholarship!

• Information about the 2019 CSU-LSAMP Costa Rica Summer Research Expedition!

• 25th Anniversary CSU-LSAMP PROUD report 2018

• Read/download the 2018 Costa Rica Expedition Report

• 2018 Fall Showcase 

• 2018 Summer Research Symposium, August 10th

• Article on CSU-LSAMP Alliance in 2018 Summer issue of Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research (SPUR)   

• Information about the 2018 Costa Rica Expedition 

• Read/download the 2017 Costa Rica Expedition Report

  • Check out this Student Engagement Statistics Infographic  to see what our students have been up to!

• Check out/download the latest UROC newsletter 

• Check out a list of presentations and publications by UROC staff and students

• Read UROC 2016 article on E-portfolios in Peer Review 

• UROC high-impact practices featured in American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Public Purpose article; Costa Rica research experience

• Read the 2016 Costa Rica Expedition Report

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center

Research opportunities for students

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