Qualifications
Any full-time student – domestic or international – enrolled at any US university or college in the spring 2025 semester is eligible to apply to the UW-Madison SPUUR. Preference will be given to Junior- and Senior standing undergraduate students with scientific curiosity, a willingness to learn, and a serious interest in pursuing a PhD in a biomedical science field. Students planning to apply to veterinary school, medical school, or to any other professional degree program (e.g., PharmD, DDM, DNP) will be considered based on their interest in research, but priority will be given to those expressly interested in careers in research. Students MUST commit to full-time participation in the program from start to end.
Application
The deadline for 2025 will be sometime in mid-February. MORE DETAILS FORTHCOMING. Applicants will apply on the University of Wisconsin-Madison SROP website (Summer Research Opportunity Program) HERE
Dates
Dates for summer 2025: Tuesday, May 27 through Friday, August 1. Students are not required to work on Independence Day (Friday, July 4).
Notification Date
TBD – but likely mid-March 2025
Application requirements
THE APPLICATION. Complete ALL elements of the UW-Madison Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) application process. Detailed instructions for the SROP application are on the SROP website HERE.
***Note that when you select the UW-Madison SPUUR Program, you are required to complete 2 additional SPUUR forms, listed in the SROP application process under “SPUUR 1” and “SPUUR 2.”
DIVERSITY. The UW-Madison SPUUR program encourages students from all backgrounds to apply. This includes first-generation college students, those who have a background of overcoming disadvantage, and those residing in areas where undergraduate research opportunities are not particularly available. The demographics of prior UW-Madison summer urology research scholars, from 2016 to 2019, demonstrate the diversity of prior students – see graph below.
