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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marek Rychlik |
Mathematics
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Familiarity with NLP ideas, intermediate programming skills in MATLAB
|
Other
|
|
| Jennifer Duan |
Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics
|
Yes |
Paid
|
Fluid Mechanics, Open Channel Flow Knowledge
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Yin Chen |
Pharmacology and Toxicology
|
Yes |
Paid
|
Funded by E-H-TRUE research training grant from NIEHS
|
Other
|
|
| YeonSun Lee |
Pharmacology
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
General Chemistry
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Elisa Tomat |
Chemistry and Biochemistry
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
General Chemistry
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Jeanne Pemberton |
Chemistry and Biochemistry
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Adam Daly |
Chemistry and Biochemistry
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
General Chemistry and prefer Organic Chemistry
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Carol Dieckmann |
Molecular and Cellular Biology
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
General Chemistry, Biology 181
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Marc Orbach |
The School of Plant Sciences
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
General Chemistry, Introductory Biology
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Kenneth Johns |
Physics
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Generally junior or senior Physics or ECE majors are preferred
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Christina Laukaitis |
Medicine
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Genetics
|
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| Willem Van Leeuwen |
The School of Natural Resources and the Environment
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
GEOG330 Introduction to Remote Sensing or Equivalent Biophysical, GIS or Remote sensing science or programming skills. Outdoor field work.
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Jiang Wu |
East Asian Studies
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Geography, East Asia, GIS, graphic design, spanish, statistics, computer, website management, social media specialists, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Eric Kiser |
Geosciences
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
GEOS 322
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Andreia Chignalia |
Anesthesiology
|
Yes |
Not given
|
Good practices of laboratory
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Francesca Vitali |
Neurology
|
Yes |
Not given
|
Good Programming skills in either Python, R or Matlab. Background in machine learning and statistics preferred.
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Robert Groves |
Religious Studies and Classics
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
Greek 202 or higher.
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Jason Pacheco |
Computer Science
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Having taken and passed a statistics or probability course. Having taken and passed Calculus and Linear Algebra courses. Some Python and/or Matlab programming experience. Having taken and passed an introductory machine learning course such as CSC 480 / CSC 380 or equivalent.
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| David Velenovsky |
Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Hearing Science, Acoustics, also can be discussed.
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Timothy Ottusch |
The Norton School of Human Ecology
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
Honors Thesis Students
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Hendrikus Granzier |
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
I currently have 3 undergraduate students.
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Toshinobu Kazui |
Surgery
|
Yes |
Volunteer
|
Ideally experience in research, motivated to learn
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Ryan Gutenkunst |
Molecular and Cellular Biology
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Interest in computer programming and/or statistics is essential
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Joseph Hoover |
Environmental Science
|
Yes |
Paid
|
Interest in developing skills in environmental justice; trans-disciplinary and team science projects; community engagement; GIS and spatial analysis; water quality and water resources
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Kate Bunton |
Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
Interest in speech acoustics, speech production, and speech perception.
|
Tucson main campus
|