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Welcome to the U-RISE Program

Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE)

Mission

The U-RISE Program at Cal State Fullerton aims to recruit, retain, and prepare promising undergraduate students with various lived-experiences to successfully pursue a career in Biomedical Science research. 

Announcements

The U-RISE Program will be hosting a Visiting Scientist seminar from the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical campus on 5 November. Dr. Rui Zhao will be meeting with all our scholars and presenting her work on RNA splicing at the end of the day. Details to come. 

 

U-RISE Events: Seminars and Workshops

  • The Visiting Scientist seminar for Fall 2025 will be held on 5 November at 4 PM. Location TBD.
  • The Visiting Scientist seminar in Spring 2025 was held on 16 April at 4 PM in MH-513. Dr. Matthew Marsden from the University of California, Irvine, met with the scholars and talked about his work. Click here for details.
  • Previous Visiting Scientist seminar events were held during the academic year 2023-24 and 2024-25. Click here for details.
  • Professional development for faculty mentors were held in 2025 and 2024 ( Click here for details) .

For inquiries about the program, please email us: urise@fullerton.edu 

The U-RISE at Cal State Fullerton was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of General Medical Sciences grant number 5T34 GM149493-03.

Institutional support is provided by the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs, and the colleges of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Humanities & Social Sciences, Engineering & Computer Science, and Health & Human Development