Samantha Dreher, an undergraduate student in the School of Kinesiology, received an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) award from the University of Minnesota. Dreher will conduct an evaluation of a non-competitive community-based youth sports program. Her project is under the direction of Zan Gao, PhD, a professor in the School and director of the Physical Activity Epidemiology Laboratory (PAEL). The UROP award is undertaken in collaboration with a faculty sponsor and is offered to full-time undergraduate students for quality empirical research, scholarly, or creative projects that contribute to the student’s academic development for a career or graduate school.