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.
Name Department Offering Research Opportunities? Types of Opportunities Prereqs Research Location End Date
Christian Twiss Urology Yes Volunteer CITI Human Research Training Tucson main campus
Christopher Banek Physiology Yes Paid, Volunteer, For credit None Tucson main campus
Noshene Ranjbar Psychiatry Yes Paid, Volunteer, For credit None Online
Torsten Falk Neurology Yes For credit None Other
Lawrence Deluca Emergency Medicine Yes Volunteer, For credit None Other
Daniel Latt Orthopedic Surgery Yes Volunteer, For credit None Tucson main campus
Alfred Bothwell Immunobiology Yes Paid, Volunteer, For credit prefer third or fourth year students Tucson main campus
Brett Colson Cellular and Molecular Medicine Yes Paid, For credit None required Tucson main campus
Lucinda Rankin Physiology Yes For credit member of honors college, 2nd semester junior or senior status. Tucson main campus
Salma Patel College of Health Sciences Administration Yes Paid, Volunteer, For credit None Other
Noel Warfel Cellular and Molecular Medicine Yes Volunteer, For credit None Tucson main campus
Bekir Tanriover Medicine Yes Paid, Volunteer None Tucson main campus
Shaowen Bao Physiology Yes Volunteer, For credit None Tucson main campus
Patrick Ronaldson Pharmacology Yes Paid Ability to commit 20 hours per week during the semester and 40 hours per week during the summer to research. Tucson main campus
Diaa Elshikha Biosystems Engineering Yes Paid None Other 08/2025
Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz Basic Medical Sciences Yes Volunteer, For credit None Phoenix
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
Rachel Mitchell The School of Natural Resources and the Environment Yes Paid, Volunteer, For credit None Tucson main campus
Zafer Mutlu Materials Science and Engineering Yes Volunteer, For credit self-motivation and curiosity Tucson main campus
Charles Hsu Radiation Oncology Yes Volunteer Data Collection, proficiency in Excel / RedCap / STATA/ SAS/R or other statistical analysis packages Tucson off-campus
Scott Boitano Physiology Yes Paid, For credit Meeting with Professor Tucson main campus
Laurent Martin Anesthesiology Yes Volunteer, For credit None Tucson main campus
Tyson Swetnam BIO5 Institute Yes Paid Computer Science Statistics Calculus Tucson main campus
Bindu Poudel-Ward Yuma County Office Yes Volunteer, For credit Knowledge in plant science and agriculture Other
Elaine Norton Animal and Biomedical Sciences Yes Volunteer, For credit None Tucson off-campus

 

Faculty Members: for more information on updating your info please visit https://ur.arizona.edu/update.