  {"id":103247,"date":"2019-09-16T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=103247"},"modified":"2021-08-31T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T01:34:08","slug":"one-stop-shop-undergrad-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/16\/one-stop-shop-undergrad-research\/","title":{"rendered":"One-stop shop for <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa undergraduate research opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_103260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103260\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-urop-acosa.jpg\" alt=\"female\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-urop-acosa.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-urop-acosa-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-urop-acosa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-urop-acosa-630x353.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kahealani Acosta assesses physical and physiological effects of nutrient deficiencies in Hawaiian breadfruit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There\u2019s a place on campus at the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> that helps undergraduate students across all disciplines engage in faculty-mentored research and creative work by providing programmatic and financial support. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_103261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103261\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-urop-louis-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"male\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-urop-louis-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-urop-louis-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-urop-louis-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/manoa-urop-louis.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leo Louis studies fungal species diversity, documenting edible species sold in markets in Bhutan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Each year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/undergrad\/urop\/\">Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program<\/a> (<abbr title=\"Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program\">UROP<\/abbr>) provides approximately $500,000 to undergraduate students at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa working with world-renowned faculty mentors on projects and professional presentations. In academic year 2018\u201319, <abbr>UROP<\/abbr> provided funding to 195 students from roughly 40 unique majors. <\/p>\n<h2>Searchable opportunity database now available <\/h2>\n<p>A new <abbr>UROP<\/abbr> resource is the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/undergrad\/urop\/find-opportunities\/student-opportunity-center\/\">Student Opportunity Center<\/a> (<abbr>SOC<\/abbr>), a searchable database with thousands of online opportunity listings: research and creative work positions, internships, co-ops, conferences and more. Access is open to all undergraduate students, faculty and staff. <\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>SOC<\/abbr> is comprised of two main databases: a national database of opportunities curated by using web-crawler technology to search the internet for thousands of listings, and a <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa-specific database. The <abbr>SOC<\/abbr> serves as a &ldquo;one-stop-shop&rdquo; for faculty-generated, on-campus opportunities. <\/p>\n<p>Faculty can post their positions on the database, tagging listings by relevant majors, and students can use the database to search for listings. Students who subscribe to those specific majors will get notifications when a new listing is posted. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Students frequently express that one of the major barriers to engaging in research and creative work is difficulty finding opportunities,&rdquo; said <strong>Jessie Chen<\/strong>, <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <abbr>UROP<\/abbr> program coordinator. &ldquo;The Student Opportunity Center collates thousands of listings from numerous sources into one searchable database. Students are now able to browse thousands of opportunities at once, and even apply keyword searches or filters.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>More on <abbr>UROP<\/abbr><\/h2>\n<p><abbr>UROP<\/abbr> supports students with scholarship funding from <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, programmatic support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, and donor funding from the <a href=\"http:\/\/castlefoundation.org\/\">Harold K. L. Castle Foundation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/impact\/research\/rooting-little-guy\">Douglas S. Yamamura Scholarship<\/a>. During its eight years of existence, <abbr>UROP<\/abbr> has distributed more than $2.5 million to more than 1,000 students. <\/p>\n<p>Projects <abbr>UROP<\/abbr> students are working on include: studying the links between coffee and Type 2 diabetes risk factors, examining the impact of classical culture on Hawaiian society, and diagnosing nutrient deficiencies in Hawaiian breadfruit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program provides approximately $500,000 to undergraduate students at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa working with world-renowned faculty mentors on projects and professional presentations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1480,1466,1363,1051,9,1497],"class_list":["post-103247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-manoa-academic-innovation-engaged-learning","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-manoa-research","tag-mentorship","tag-uh-manoa","tag-urop","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103247"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103263,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103247\/revisions\/103263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}