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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
|
|
| Jacob Schwartz |
Pharmacology
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Please inquire
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Kenneth McAllister |
Humanities Administration
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None.
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Roberto Guzman |
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Students that succed in my lab, have usually basic skill of chemistry and knowledge of biochemistry.
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Liliana Salvador |
Animal and Biomedical Sciences
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Andrew Capaldi |
Molecular and Cellular Biology
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz |
Basic Medical Sciences
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Phoenix
|
|
| Ian Pepper |
Environmental Science
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson off-campus
|
|
| Jon Pelletier |
Geosciences
|
Yes |
Paid
|
Programming
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Serin Hong |
Mathematics
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Linear Algebra, Abstract Algebra
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Guang Yao |
Molecular and Cellular Biology
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Brett Colson |
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
|
Yes |
Paid
For Credit
|
None required
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Carol Dieckmann |
Molecular and Cellular Biology
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
General Chemistry, Biology 181
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Diaa Elshikha |
Biosystems Engineering
|
Yes |
Paid
|
None
|
Other
|
08/2025
|
| Minkyu Kim |
Materials Science and Engineering
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Tally Milnes |
Pharmacology
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Albrecht Classen |
German Studies
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
basic understanding of the European Middle Ages, motivation, passion
|
Other
|
|
| Johann Rafelski |
Physics
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Senior Year, some exceptional case Junior
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Douglas Pickrell |
Mathematics
|
Yes |
For Credit
|
core undergraduate math courses
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Sean Fleming |
Physics
|
Yes |
Volunteer
|
quantum mechanics
|
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
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Pierre Haenecour |
Planetary Sciences
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Michael Duren |
College of Applied Science and Technology
|
Yes |
Volunteer
|
None
|
Online
|
|
| Lisa Nagy |
Molecular and Cellular Biology
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
MCB 181
|
Tucson main campus
|