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 Department Offering Research Opportunities? Types of Opportunities Prereqs Research Location End Date
Paul Ferre
Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences
Yes
Volunteer
None
Tucson main campus
Jason Wertheim
Medicine Administration
Yes
Volunteer
None
Tucson main campus
Qing Hao
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Yes
Paid
Basic circuit class and thermodynamics
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
Minkyu Kim
Materials Science and Engineering
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
George Sutphin
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
none
Tucson main campus
Hermann Fasel
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Aaron Flesch
The School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
Knowledge of spreadsheets and MS Excel.
Tucson off-campus
Philipp Gutruf
Biomedical Engineering
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Jennifer Barton
BIO5 Institute
Yes
Paid
For Credit
Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, at least sophomore level
Tucson main campus
Horst Steklis
Animal and Biomedical Sciences
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
ACBS160
Tucson main campus
Benjamin Renquist
Animal and Biomedical Sciences
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson off-campus
Koenraad Van Doorslaer
Immunobiology
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Sadhana Ravishankar
Animal and Biomedical Sciences
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Raina Maier
Environmental Science
Yes
Paid
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Gayatri Vedantam
Animal and Biomedical Sciences
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Netzin Steklis
Animal and Biomedical Sciences
Yes
For Credit
prefer if students had ACBS 160 Human and Animal Interrelationships
Tucson main campus
Edward Prather
Astronomy
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
Astro 170B1
Tucson main campus
Kenneth Head
Systems and Industrial Engineering
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
None
Tucson main campus
Michael Bogan
The School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
n/a
Tucson main campus
Tai Kong
Physics
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Ravi Goyal
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Virinchipuram Viswanathan
Animal and Biomedical Sciences
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
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
Marc Orbach
The School of Plant Sciences
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
General Chemistry, Introductory Biology
Tucson main campus