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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig Kulesa |
Steward Observatory
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Our group specializes in hands-on instrument and observatory development for space-based, balloon-borne and ground-based observatories in Antarctica. Hands-on mechanical engineering, software engineering, astronomical data processing and visualization are common applications.
|
Tucson main campus
|
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| Megan Corty |
Neuroscience
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| David Hogan |
Environmental Science
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Brian LeRoy |
Physics
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Noel Warfel |
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Malak Tfaily |
Environmental Science
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson off-campus
|
|
| Ravishankar Palanivelu |
The School of Plant Sciences
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| William Killgore |
Psychiatry
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Hao Zhang |
Mathematics
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Nathan Smith |
Astronomy
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
ASTR250
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Gayatri Vedantam |
Animal and Biomedical Sciences
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Payal Khosla |
The Norton School of Human Ecology
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
N/A
|
Other
|
|
| Alejandro Salado Diez |
Systems and Industrial Engineering
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Coding VR environments for Occulus Quest (Unity)
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Michael Heien |
Chemistry and Biochemistry
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Alexander McGhee |
Biomedical Engineering
|
Yes |
Volunteer
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Wendy Moore Brusca |
Entomology
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Charles Stafford |
Physics
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
Phys 371
|
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
|
|
| Kirsten Limesand |
Graduate College Administration
|
Yes |
Volunteer
|
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
|
|
| Rachel Gallery |
The School of Natural Resources and the Environment
|
Yes |
Paid
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Marek Rychlik |
Mathematics
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Familiarity with NLP ideas, intermediate programming skills in MATLAB
|
Other
|
|
| Monica Schmidt |
The School of Plant 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
|
|
| Cynthia Miranti |
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
none
|
Tucson main campus
|