Description

Gray textured metal box with lighter metal handle manufactured by Buddy Products, Made in USA; leather luggage tag with label "Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) // Twentieth Anniversary Celebration // January 29, 1990 // To Be Opened in 2020!". Small lock marked "austin house" and key marked "Taiwan". Contents:

- Folder of photographic prints, mostly labeled, of students and professors working on UROP projects, taken mostly in 1986-87 by Laurie Sokolsky.

- MIT Tech Talk newspaper issue from January 24, 1990, with front-page article "Party to Celebrate Two Decades of UROP"

- Portfolio containing letter from Margaret MacVicar, letters with predictions for 2020 from students and faculty

- Fall 1969 Directory of Undergraduate Research Opportunities brochure

- 1989-1990 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Directory

- Generation of Greatness: the Idea of a University in an Age of Science, Edwin H. Land brochure from Arthur Dehon Little Memorial Lecture given May 22, 1957

- UROP 1989 Twenty Years orange XL t-shirt

- MIT UROP orange M t-shirt with monkeys on back

- Galley proofs copy of article "MIT's undergraduate research program: A model" by Norma G. McGavern and Margaret L. A. MacVicar

- copy of "UROP at 15" article by Susan Lewis from Technology Review Nov/Dec 1984

- issue of MIT Spectrum Fall 1988, "A Success Story Called UROP" p 5-7

- "UROP - What's It All About" brochure 1969-1976

- additional key on bottom of box.