Congratulations to the 2025 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award Recipients!

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Mines Undergraduate Research Fellowship

MURF offers all undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in innovative, faculty-led research.

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Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

SURF offers all undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in innovative, faculty-led research over the course of the summer.

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First-Year Innovation and Research Scholar Training

FIRST offers an opportunity for highly motivated first-year students to participate in original research.

Applications for 2022-2023 are currently closed. Please check back in Spring.

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Reuleaux Writing Grant

The RWG is awarded annually in the Fall semester. Learn more about how you can participate!

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Undergraduate Research Journal

Reuleaux is Mines peer-reviewed undergraduate research magazine. Get involved today!

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Undergraduate Research Scholar Graduation Distiniction

URS Distinction is offered every semester to outgoing graduates.

Applications are usually due in the middle of the Fall and Spring semesters.

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FOSTERING EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING THROUGH

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

The office of Undergraduate Research Scholars works hard to provide students a wide array of opportunities to conduct cutting-edge research led by Mines faculty mentors. Research opportunities include fellowships, research assistantships, and even obtaining credits for research. Programs such as the First-Year Innovation & Research Scholar Training (FIRST) and Mines Undergraduate Research Fellowship (MURF) can help incoming students get a head start in their field of interest.

FOSTERING transformative LEARNING THROUGH

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

The Office of Undergraduate Research provides students with a wide array of opportunities to conduct cutting-edge research led by Mines faculty mentors. Research opportunities include fellowships, research assistantships, and even obtaining credits for research. Programs such as the First-Year Innovation & Research Scholar Training (FIRST) and Mines Undergraduate Research Fellowship (MURF) can help incoming students get a head start in their field of interest.

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The FIRST fellowship gave me my first experiences in a professional lab, and enriched my education in countless ways.

– Avery Tyndall (Mentor, Dr. Susanta Sarkar), Physics, Class of 2023

FIRST helped me solidify my interest in continuing research as an undergraduate at Mines and in post-undergraduate work.

– Tony Tien (Mentor, Dr. Kevin Cash), CBE, Class of 2023

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The Undergraduate Research Mentor Award recognizes faculty, postdoc, and graduate student mentors who support undergraduate students in having enriching research experiences.

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Scholar Spotlight: Frances LeDuke '26

Undergraduate research brings Mines student across the country and world to solve a pressing environmental issue. Frances LeDuke shares her experience conducting on-site data collection in Zambia and presenting at an international conference in Pittsburgh. Her research seeks possible avenues for remediation of contamination from legacy mining in Zambia.