A SURA undergraduate research initiative
Find your place in research.
Explore undergraduate research opportunities across the University of Oklahoma, connect with faculty, and find projects that match your interests, experience, and goals.
Learn how the pilot works →Transparency
About this pilot
SURA Connect is a student-led pilot developed and maintained by the Scientific Undergraduate Research Association (SURA), with support from the University of Oklahoma community. It is designed to explore how a centralized undergraduate research platform could better connect OU students and faculty.
SURA Connect is not an official University of Oklahoma website or administrative system.
The project is intended to help evaluate the usefulness of a dedicated undergraduate research platform and better understand what students and faculty need from a system like this.
One place to find and share undergraduate research.
Research opportunities are often spread across department websites, emails, faculty pages, and word of mouth. SURA Connect is exploring a simpler way to bring those opportunities together.
Faculty post opportunities
Faculty describe their research, prerequisites, expected time commitment, preferred experience, and available positions.
Students discover projects
Students browse across disciplines and identify projects that fit their interests, coursework, skills, and availability.
Students apply
Students submit their information and materials through SURA Connect, giving faculty a consistent way to review prospective researchers.
Inside SURA Connect
A clear path from posting to application.
These previews use the same information and steps found in the portal's working forms.
Faculty share the opportunity
Create OpportunityStudents build an application
4-step applicationFor students
Find research that fits you.
Search opportunities by discipline, experience level, prerequisites, skills, and time commitment. Learn what a faculty member is looking for before you apply.
Browse opportunitiesFor faculty
Reach students who are ready to contribute.
Share available undergraduate research positions, communicate expectations clearly, and review interested students through one centralized platform.
Post an opportunityThe question behind the pilot
Why SURA Connect?
Finding undergraduate research should not depend entirely on knowing the right professor, seeing the right email, or discovering the right department webpage.
This pilot is intended to learn whether one shared place helps students understand opportunities and helps faculty communicate what they need from applicants.
- What students need before applying
- Whether structured postings help faculty
- Which application information is useful
- How research discovery could be easier
About SURA
Built by students who care about undergraduate research.
The Scientific Undergraduate Research Association (SURA) is a student organization at the University of Oklahoma dedicated to making research more visible, approachable, and accessible to undergraduate students.
SURA develops and maintains SURA Connect with support from members of the University of Oklahoma community as part of an ongoing pilot exploring better ways to connect students and faculty through research.
Learn about SURAHelp us build something useful.
SURA Connect is being tested with the OU community. Feedback from students and faculty will help us understand what works, what does not, and what a future undergraduate research system should include.