Application Guidelines
The UNLV Pipe-UP program is no longer accepting applications.
UNLV Pipe-UP includes curricular and co-curricular activities that are aligned with both student development and career stage to engage them in increasing levels of research. Additionally, the program teaches participants the scientific method and its value, offers funded and mentored research and professional development to improve preparedness, enhances STEM identity building, increases persistence, and builds self-efficacy and competency for a successful undergraduate and graduate career.
UNLV's Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR), Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering (CoE), and College of Sciences (CoS) aim to accept two cohorts of 20 first-year engineering and science students to participate in a 4-year holistic program to improve their sense of belonging, self-efficacy, persistence, and the transition from undergraduate to graduate school.
Upon successful maintenance of eligibility and program requirements, participants will be awarded a monetary stipend of $2,500 during Year 1, $3,000 during Year 2, $4,500 during Year 3, and $2,250 during Year 4.
Eligibility & Consideration
Currently enrolled, full-time, UNLV first-year undergraduate students with a declared major within the College of Sciences (chemistry, earth and environmental science, geology, biological sciences, mathematical sciences, physics) are eligible for consideration. Students must have had a minimum high school GPA of 2.75, with 3.0 GPAs or above having preference.
OUR encourage the members of underrepresented groups (e.g., Alaska Natives, Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, Persons with Disabilities, students from low-income families, students who are first-generation college-going (neither parent graduated from college), non-traditional students, female students in engineering) to apply.
Application Process & Deadline
Students are required to submit the following as part of the application package:
One-page personal statement detailing the applicant’s research project and activities they plan to undertake during the summer period. For instructions, please peruse OUR's one-page personal statement sample.
Curriculum Vitae (CV). For instructions, please peruse the following samples: STEM.
Applicants who meet the selection criteria will be interviewed prior to admission into the program.
Program Requirements
As this program is a 4-year program, participants are expected to meet and maintain the following criteria each year:
Participate in annual activities,
Enroll in at least 12 credits per semester,
Maintain at least a 3.0 GPA, and
Maintain enrollment in either the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering or College of Sciences.
If participants fail to meet these criteria, they will be given a 1-semester probation period in which they can try to ameliorate any deficiencies.