UA Researchers

Note: This database is a list of faculty who welcome undergraduate students into their research projects. It is up to faculty to keep this list updated.
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Faculty Members: For more information on updating your information in the faculty database please visit ur.arizona.edu/update. For help listing active undergraduate research opportunities in Handshake, contact Kelley Merriam-Castro at kmerriam@arizona.edu.
Name Departmentsort ascending Offering Research Opportunities? Types of Opportunities Prereqs Research Location End Date
Brett Colson
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Yes
Paid
For Credit
None required
Tucson main campus
Hendrikus Granzier
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
I currently have 3 undergraduate students.
Tucson main campus
Edward Gelmann
Medicine
Yes
Paid
chemistry biochemistry
Tucson main campus
Amit Algotar
Medicine
Yes
Volunteer
None
Tucson off-campus
Jennifer Stern
Medicine
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
none
Other
Franz Rischard
Medicine
Yes
Volunteer
None
Tucson main campus
Dawn Coletta
Medicine
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Fariba Donovan
Medicine
Yes
Volunteer
None
Tucson main campus
Marvin Slepian
Medicine
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Salma Patel
Medicine
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Other
Christina Laukaitis
Medicine
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
Genetics
Paul Langlais
Medicine
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
N/A
Tucson main campus
Clara Curiel
Medicine
Yes
Paid
Team player and interest in a career in health sciences
Online
Chian Kwoh
Medicine
Yes
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Rebecca Vanderpool
Medicine
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
No prerequisites are necessary but knowledge of the cardiovascular systems and physiology is helpful. Experience with computer programming and statistics (working with Matlab and R) is also helpful but not necessary.
Tucson main campus
Frank Brosius III
Medicine
Yes
Not given
These opportunities are exclusively through our NIH funded R25 grant for which I serve as one of 4 PIs. There are annual requests for applications to the undergraduate research program.
Other
Janet Funk
Medicine
Yes
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Bekir Tanriover
Medicine
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
Machine learning
Tucson main campus
Allan Hamilton
Neurosurgery
Yes
Paid
For Credit
AI, coding
Tucson main campus
John Konhilas
Physiology
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
Dedicated, hard-working and willing to commit for 2 years.
Tucson main campus
Elizabeth Bailey
Physiology
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
None
Erika Eggers
Physiology
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Samantha Harris
Physiology
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Shaowen Bao
Physiology
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Nicholas Delamere
Physiology
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus