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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 is now accepting applications for the new cohort (2026-2028). Contact us if you have any questions about the application process or the program.

  application flyer

 

U-RISE Events: Seminars and Workshops

  • The Visiting Scientist seminar for Spring 2026 will be held on 18 March (Wed) at 4 PM in MH-513. Dr. Aaron Straight from Stanford University will meet with scholars and talk about his work on human centromeres. Click here for more information.  

 

  • The Visiting Scientist seminar for Fall 2025 will be held on 5 November (Wed) at 4 PM in CPAC-146. Dr. Rui Zhao from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus will meet with scholars and talk about her work on RNA splicing. Click here for details.

 

  • Previous Visiting Scientist seminar events were held during the academic year 2023-24 and 2024-25. Click here for details.

 

Scholar Spotlight

Karen Salazar

Karen Salazar (Department of Biological Science)

Mentor Spotlight

Nikolas Nikolaidis

Nikolas Nikolaidis, Ph.D. (Department of Biological Science)

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