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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Students may also search for research positions, events, and opportunities in Handshake.
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.
Note: To select more than one Research Location, please hold down your control key while clicking a selection.
Students may also search for research positions, events, and opportunities in Handshake.
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 | Department | Offering Research Opportunities? | Types of Opportunities | Prereqs | Research Location |
End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Impey |
Astronomy
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Depends on the project. Projects include working on science literacy, astronomy pedagogy, the use of machine learning to detect science misinformation on the web, and building massive open online classes, or MOOCs.
|
Tucson main campus
|
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| Christina Laukaitis |
Medicine
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Genetics
|
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| Donald Falk |
The School of Natural Resources and the Environment
|
Yes |
Paid
|
None
|
Other
|
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| Raina Maier |
Environmental Science
|
Yes |
Paid
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Marcel Schaap |
Environmental Science
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
Quantitative skills, computer skills, experimental skills
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| David Breshears |
The School of Natural Resources and the Environment
|
Yes |
Paid
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Leif Abrell |
Environmental Science
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Organic chemistry
|
Tucson main campus
|
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| Craig Rasmussen |
Environmental Science
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
ENVS 200 and 201 are preferred but not mandatory
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| William Smith |
The School of Natural Resources and the Environment
|
Yes |
Paid
For Credit
|
Experience with field work. Experience with computer programming.
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Ronald Heimark |
Surgery
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Basic lab experience including western blots, PCR, IHC, ISH
|
Tucson main campus
|
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| Bekir Tanriover |
Medicine
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Daniel Diaz Ordonez |
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
|
Yes |
Paid
For Credit
|
Physics Mathematics Matlab Advance writing skills
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Fiona McCarthy |
Animal and Biomedical Sciences
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Molecular biology is preferred but not required.
|
Online
|
|
| Alonso Favela |
The School of Plant Sciences
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
No Mandatory prerequisites. Preference will be given to those with some Excel, sheets, or computational experience. Check out the website for more info: favelalab.com
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Cherie Devore |
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Shankar Venkataramani |
Mathematics
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
|
Calculus, Linear Algebra, Programming. Differential equations would be very helpful.
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Gregory Ogden |
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
programming such as LabView, Matlab
|
Tucson main campus
|
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| Anne Bowen |
Pediatrics
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
none
|
Tucson main campus
|
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| Charles Stafford |
Physics
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
Phys 371
|
Tucson main campus
|
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| Matthias Mehl |
Psychology
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
Research Methods course
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Hao Zhang |
Mathematics
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Nicholas Strausfeld |
Neuroscience
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Michael Heien |
Chemistry and Biochemistry
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| William Holmgren |
Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences
|
Yes |
Paid
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Malak Tfaily |
Environmental Science
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson off-campus
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