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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Boitano |
Physiology
|
Yes |
Paid
For Credit
|
Meeting with Professor
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Laurent Martin |
Anesthesiology
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Tyson Swetnam |
BIO5 Institute
|
Yes |
Paid
|
Computer Science Statistics Calculus
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Bindu Poudel-Ward |
Yuma County Office
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Knowledge in plant science and agriculture
|
Other
|
|
| Elaine Norton |
Animal and Biomedical Sciences
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson off-campus
|
|
| Euan Mcleod |
Wyant College of Optical Sciences
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Michael Hammer |
BIO5 Institute
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Lianyang Zhang |
Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics
|
Yes |
Paid
|
Mechanics, Concrete, Soil Mechanics
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Wooyoung Jung |
Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics
|
Yes |
Volunteer
|
Passion for smart/sustainable/healthy buildings. - Preferred (not mandatory): Programming skills (Python), data analytics, etc.
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Daniel Diaz Ordonez |
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
|
Yes |
Paid
For Credit
|
Physics Mathematics Matlab Advance writing skills
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Alexander Bucksch |
The School of Plant Sciences
|
Yes |
Paid
For Credit
|
none, I do offer some very practical tasks that do not require much technical knowledge However, analytical knowledge in statistics and the use of python/R scripts to perform data analysis will give you a jump start into the research here.
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Paul Wagner |
College of Applied Science and Technology
|
Yes |
Volunteer
|
N/A
|
Online
|
|
| Rozhin Yasaei |
College of Applied Science and Technology
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Programming
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Carlos Zgheib |
Surgery
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
|
None
|
Other
|
|
| Karen Schumaker |
The School of Plant Sciences
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Monica Schmidt |
The School of Plant Sciences
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Fiona McCarthy |
Animal and Biomedical Sciences
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
Molecular biology is preferred but not required.
|
Online
|
|
| Jeffrey Jacobs |
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
|
Yes |
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Brett Colson |
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
|
Yes |
Paid
For Credit
|
None required
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Beth Meyerson |
Family and Community Medicine
|
Yes |
Paid
|
Communications (written and verbal), commitment to harm reduction science, preference for students with lived (opioid use) experience. Other prerequisites pending the specific opportunity.
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Miguel Simonet |
Spanish and Portuguese
|
Yes |
Paid
For Credit
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Nathan Smith |
Astronomy
|
Yes |
Volunteer
For Credit
|
ASTR250
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Toshinobu Kazui |
Surgery
|
Yes |
Volunteer
|
Ideally experience in research, motivated to learn
|
Tucson main campus
|
|
| Marlys Witte |
Surgery
|
Yes |
Paid
|
None
|
Tucson main campus
|