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
Ravishankar Palanivelu The School of Plant Sciences Yes Paid, Volunteer, For credit None 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
Qin Chen Pharmacy Practice and Science Yes Volunteer None Tucson main campus
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
Erika Eggers Physiology Yes Paid, Volunteer, For credit Please consult my website: sites.arizona.edu/eggerslab/join-us/ for what information to send when applying for an undergraduate research position and for information about our projects. Tucson main campus
Janet Funk Medicine Yes For credit None Tucson main campus
Justin Wilson Immunobiology Yes For credit None Tucson main campus
Michael Johnson Immunobiology Yes Volunteer, For credit None Tucson main campus
Yin Chen Pharmacology and Toxicology Yes Paid Funded by E-H-TRUE research training grant from NIEHS Other
Julie Armin Family and Community Medicine Yes For credit An understanding of health equity issues Tucson main campus
Fernando Martinez Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center Yes Volunteer, For credit None Tucson main campus
Scott Jones The School of Natural Resources and the Environment Yes For credit RNR 417 Tucson main campus
Franz Rischard Medicine Yes Volunteer None Tucson main campus
Rebecca Schomer The School of Plant Sciences Yes Paid UBRP Tucson main campus
Jennifer Stern Medicine Yes Paid, Volunteer, For credit none Other
Norma Perez-Brena The Norton School of Human Ecology Yes Volunteer Research Methods Tucson main campus
Tatiana Kalin Child Health Yes Volunteer, For credit None Phoenix
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
Carlos Zgheib Surgery Yes Volunteer, For credit None Other
Prem Kumar Govindappa Orthopedic Surgery Yes Volunteer, For credit Basic experience with animal and cell culture studies along with essential skills. Tucson main campus
Toshinobu Kazui Surgery Yes Volunteer Ideally experience in research, motivated to learn Tucson main campus
Tomas Cerny Systems and Industrial Engineering Yes Volunteer, For credit Object-oriented design Ideally, knowledge of databases, javascript, code analysis, spring, cloud native Tucson main campus
Yue Wang Systems and Industrial Engineering Yes Volunteer, For credit None Tucson main campus
Jessica Rick The School of Natural Resources and the Environment Yes Paid, For credit None Tucson main campus
Katherine Rhodes Immunobiology Yes Volunteer None Tucson main campus

 

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