UROP Celebrates 40 years @ MIT

The late Margaret L. A. MacVicar, Professor of Physical Science and Dean for Undergraduate Education, created MIT’s UROP In 1969, inspired by Edwin H. Land. Land, the inventor of instant photography, believed in the power of learning by doing.

For the past 40 years, the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) has cultivated and supported research partnerships between MIT undergraduates and faculty. UROP is one of the earliest programs of its kind in the United States to invite undergraduates to participate in research as the junior colleagues of Institute faculty.

Pictured is UROP's founder Prof. Margaret L. A. MacVicar in the 1970's.

This site is dedicated to showcasing UROP@MIT as we prepare to celebrate our 40th anniversary.

"MIT is deeply committed to the premise that undergraduates should inhabit a very special world-that of a moral and intellectual universe with certain fixed stars, but also with wide spaces in between where students can find room to wander and to make their own paths." —Margaret L. A. MacVicar, Founder of UROP