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“I find research to be an outlet of discovery and a key to making positive changes in my society. I have cherished the opportunity to transform abstract ideas into physical prescriptive analysis. I have also benefitted from my research by becoming more familiar with the world of academia, inspiring and preparing me to apply for graduate school.”
— Lauren Dickinson, Media/Communication Studies
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Benefits to Students
UROP is more than just another class or some extra reading. It’s a part of FSU’s effort to make the undergraduate experience an all-around good one by opening up opportunities, engaging students, improving the quality of undergraduate education, and individualizing your education. UROP offers you some of the following benefits:
- Three great opportunities in one year: research training, research experience, and a conference publication
- Working one-on-one with a professor helps create a close working relationship and adds to the small campus feel
- Hands-on learning in addition to what you’re doing in the classroom
- Earn two points toward the honors medallion
- Identification of your own academic and career interests
- Individualized attention from your Research Sponsor and UROP Leader
- An understanding of what research universities—like Florida State—are really all about
- An opportunity for a great letter of recommendation from your Research Sponsor
- Some exposure to what graduate school will be like
- Something to make you competitive for graduate and professional schools: grad schools, law schools, med schools, and future employers will look very favorably on undergraduate research experiences
- The chance to contribute to some of the groundbreaking research being conducted by our faculty
- Competitiveness for research awards and national fellowships like Rhodes, Marshal, and Truman
- Something unique and practical to add to your resume
- An intellectual and personal endeavor that will make your undergraduate experience at FSU an even better one
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