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 Prereqssort ascending Research Location End Date
Charles Putnam
Surgery
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
No requirements
Tucson main campus
04/2025
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
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
Andrew Cohen
Geosciences
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
N/A
Tucson main campus
Carol Barnes
Psychology
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
N/A
Michael Bogan
The School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
n/a
Tucson main campus
Paul Langlais
Medicine
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
N/A
Tucson main campus
Paul Wagner
College of Applied Science and Technology
Yes
Volunteer
N/A
Online
Payal Khosla
The Norton School of Human Ecology
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
N/A
Other
Caroline Kopruszinski
Pharmacology
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
N/A
Tucson main campus
Faye Mcgechie
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Yes
For Credit
n/a
Tucson main campus
Ali Mohammed
The School of Plant Sciences
Yes
Paid
N/A
Other
08/2025
Zhongguo Xiong
The School of Plant Sciences
Yes
Paid
For Credit
Molecular biology techniques including DNA, RNA, and protein analyses, bacterial culturing and transformation.
Tucson main campus
Fiona McCarthy
Animal and Biomedical Sciences
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
Molecular biology is preferred but not required.
Online
Rebecca Gomez
Psychology
Yes
For Credit
Minimum GPA 3.0, students must be available during the summer for 9-12 hr/week to train and must commit to 2 semesters of research the following year with ample availability during the week for testing children (9 hr/week). We take applications at our lab website annually in April. Learn more at https://www.childcognitionlab.arizona.edu/students
Tucson main campus
Marta Codeco
Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Economic Mineral Deposits
Tucson main campus
Lucinda Rankin
Physiology
Yes
For Credit
member of honors college, 2nd semester junior or senior status.
Tucson main campus
Scott Boitano
Physiology
Yes
Paid
For Credit
Meeting with Professor
Tucson main campus
Lianyang Zhang
Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics
Yes
Paid
Mechanics, Concrete, Soil Mechanics
Tucson main campus
Mark Beilstein
The School of Plant Sciences
Yes
Paid
For Credit
MCB181, CHEM151, CHEM152
Tucson main campus
Jesse Woodson
The School of Plant Sciences
Yes
Paid
For Credit
MCB181 or equivalent course is strongly recommended.
Tucson main campus
Ramin Yadegari
The School of Plant Sciences
Yes
Paid
For Credit
MCB 181R
Tucson main campus
Lisa Nagy
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
MCB 181
Tucson main campus
Pan Yan
Mathematics
Yes
For Credit
MATH 413
Tucson main campus
Klaus Lux
Mathematics
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
MATH 313, Linear Algebra
Tucson main campus