Current Student Opportunities

Empowering Creativity, Celebrating Achievement

Welcome students! The Undergraduate Research, Arts and Design Network is dedicated to bringing you more opportunities to create and showcase amazing scholarly work. Check back often to learn about exciting programs, courses and other opportunities.

Drop-In Hours for Psychology Undergraduates

Feb 13, March 10, April 9
Logan Hall, Room 125

We are Psychology DO (Diversity Organization), a group made up of graduate psychology students in the clinical psych Ph.D. program here at UNM (including members from the clinical program, evolution and society program, and cognition brain and behavior program). Drop-in hours are an opportunity for undergraduates in psychology to meet with graduate students to ask questions about the major, the field, applying to graduate school, or how to get connected with research (and so much more!) The format is very casual (drop-in for 10 mins or stay for an hour!) and if we cannot answer your questions, we can usually connect you with someone who can! We always have snacks!

Submit Your UROC Abstracts

Due March 9, 2026

If you are an undergraduate pursuing a research project, we want you to present at UROC! Visit our website, uresearch.unm.edu for the full details on submitting your abstract (max length 1800 characters, approx 250 words) by the deadline of March 9th and mark your calendars for the day of UROC on Fri, April 17. Reach out to uresearch@unm.edu with any questions.

Share Your Library Story

Best Consideration Date, March 13, 2026

Are you interested in talking about how a library has factored into your life? Do you have a library memory you'd like to share? If so, please consider being interviewed by UNM librarians who are studying the role of libraries in students' lives. You must be 18 years or older and taking at least one undergraduate course at UNM during the spring 2026 semester. If you're interested, please fill out the interest form. Questions? Reach out to Adrienne Warner

Undergraduate Arts Research Award

Self-Nominations due March 19, 2026

The UNM Undergraduate Research, Arts & Design Network (URAD) and the UNM College of Fine Arts invite you to self-nominate for the UNM Excellence in Undergraduate Arts Research Award. For this award, Arts is defined as work in the following fields of study: Art, Music, Theater and Dance, and Film and Digital Arts. The Excellence Award winner(s) will receive an $800 department award. Two Honorable Mention winners will each receive $200 department awards. Award and Honorable Mention winners will be recognized at the UNM Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference on April 17, 2026. Student awards for collaborative projects will be split evenly among the students who submit the project for consideration. Visit the Student Self Nomination Form to begin the self-nomination process.

ASSURE (Arts & Sciences Support for Undergraduate Research Experience)

Applications due April 17, 2026 by 11:59PM

The College of Arts & Sciences seeks applications for the Arts & Sciences Support for Undergraduate Research Experience (ASSURE) for the Fall 2026 and Spring 2027 semesters (academic year 2026-2027). This program fosters faculty-student research collaborations whereby undergraduate students engage in thoughtful and progressively sophisticated work that is central to the principal investigator’s overall research program. We particularly welcome proposals that engage lower-division students and students from underrepresented groups. Please visit their website for more details and to apply online with your faculty mentor by April 17, 2026.