Mental and Physical Wellness Dance Professor Kelli Sharp Collaborates with Undergraduate Students in an Innovative UCI Research Program By Richard Chang
Photo: Will Tee Yang
At most universities, undergradu-
ates don’t typically get opportunities to do serious research with their professors, let alone get published alongside them in professional journals. But through UC Irvine’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), undergrads are getting the chance to do both. 26
At the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Dr. Kelli Sharp, an assistant professor in the Department of Dance, has teamed with two undergraduate students, Jessica C. Ruth and Andrea D. Valentini, to pursue a research project Image: Dr. Kelli Sharp (center) directs a team of interdisciplinary researchers during a previous study in 2019.
