Graduate Research Opportunities

Research and creative endeavors are key components of graduate education at the UA. Individual colleges and departments maintain outstanding research facilities and opportunities for scholars within their particular disciplines.

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Undergraduate Research Opportunities

UA supports undergraduate research—students in all departments may participate in faculty projects or conduct their own to get a head start on careers.

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Student Researcher Profiles

Q&A: Oscar Mendez's Parasite Research is the Cat's Meow

Feb. 20, 2020

Get to know Oscar Mendez, a Ph.D. candidate who is studying how the parasite common in cat feces affects neurons in the brain.

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On Student Success, This Astronomer Walks the Walk

Feb. 17, 2020

Gurtina Besla, a UArizona assistant professor of astronomy, wants today’s students to have what she didn’t: community, paid internships, and clear paths to fulfilling careers—for which they’re actually prepared.

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Q&A: Stephanie Stewart Crunches Data from an Asteroid in Orbit

June 20, 2019

Get to know Stephanie Stewart, an undergraduate student whose contributions to NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample return mission will help ensure a flawless 5-second operation to capture dust from the surface of the asteroid Bennu.

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University of Arizona molecular and cellular biology undergraduate student Ayumi Pottenger handling a sample in the laboratory

Q&A: Ayumi Pottenger's Got Research on the Brain

Jan. 16, 2019

Ayumi Pottenger is an undergraduate student studying molecular and cellular biology in the hopes of developing treatments for those with Parkinson’s disease while elucidating some of the mysteries of the brain.

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Briggs Carhart examining a sample under a microscope.

Q&A: Mastering the Nervous System with Briggs Carhart

Nov. 13, 2018

Briggs Carhart is a Master of Public Health student who studies the nervous system and is particularly interested in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.

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Thomas Moon sits in front of two computer screens in the lab.

Q&A: Thomas Moon, Postdoc at the Molecular Level

Aug. 13, 2018
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Art conservationist Sophie Church handles a piece of pottery at the Arizona State Museum.

Q&A: Sophie Church, Master Art Conservator

July 23, 2018
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Earyn McGee holding a lizard in a dry stream bed in the Chiricahua Mountains

Q&A: Lizard-Loving PhD Student Earyn McGee

July 10, 2018
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Dr. Vishnu Reddy's Design Day team poses with one of two telescopes they designed and built.

Undergraduate Students Build Telescopes to Track Space Junk

May 16, 2017
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