This
list represents only a sample of on-campus undergraduate research
opportunities, arranged by school.
Feel free to contact potential mentors directly for additional
opportunities.
| Henry Samueli School of Engineering | Area of Research | Faculty Mentor | Submitted | Post Until |
| Atomic Force Microscopy | Engineering-Electrical Engineering | Professor Kumar Wickramasinghe | 10/30/2015 | 10/2019 |
| School of Biological Sciences | Area of Research | Faculty Mentor | Submitted | Post Until |
| Identifying Progenitor Cells During Wound Regeneration | Biomedical Sciences-Developmental & Cell Biology | Dr. Maksim Plikus | 8/8/2017 | 9/2020 |
| School of Education | Area of Research | Faculty Mentor | Submitted | Post Until |
| SRSD+: A Powerful Writing Instruction | Education | Professor Young-Suk Kim | 11/15/2017 | 11/2020 |
| Research on Teaching, Learning, and Digital Media | Education | Professor Mark Warschauer | 3/11/2018 | 12/2026 |
| Young Children’s Conversing and Learning with Conversational Agents | Education | Professor Mark Warschauer | 12/3/2018 | 6/2020 |
| School of Medicine | Area of Research | Faculty Mentor | Submitted | Post Until |
| Neuroscience Research | Biomedical Sciences-Anatomy & Neurobiology/Neurology | Professor Xiangmin Xu | 8/24/2018 | 9/2023 |
| The Micropallet Array: A Novel Platform for the Study of Cancer Stem Cells & Other Tumor Elements | Biomedical Sciences-Cancer/Pathology/Oncology | Professor Edward Nelson | 11/25/2018 | 11/2020 |
| Development and Evaluation of Imaging Agents | Biomedical Sciences-Radiological Services | Professor Jogesh Mukherjee | 2/11/2019 | 2/2021 |
| School of Physical Sciences | Area of Research | Faculty Mentor | Submitted | Post Until |
| Nanomaterials and Solar Energy | Physical Sciences-Chemistry-Physical | Professor Matthew Law | 11/2/2015 | 10/2019 |
| Non-Linear Optical (CARS) Microscopy | Physical Sciences-Chemistry-Physical | Professor Eric Potma | 11/2/2015 | 10/2019 |
| Ultrafast 2-D IR Spectroscopy and Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) | Physical Sciences-Chemistry-Physical | Professor Nien-Hui Ge | 11/2/2015 | 10/2019 |
| Ultrafast Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Single Molecules | Physical Sciences-Chemistry-Physical | Professor Ara Apkarian | 11/2/2015 | 10/2019 |
| Density Functional Studies of Physical Properties of Novel Materials | Physical Sciences-Physics & Astronomy | Professor Ruqian Wu | 11/2/2015 | 10/2019 |
| Spectroscopy with Submolecular Resolution Using Inelastic STM | Physical Sciences-Physics & Astronomy | Professor Wilson Ho | 11/2/2015 | 10/2019 |
| School of Social Ecology | Area of Research | Faculty Mentor | Submitted | Post Until |
| Trends in Water Quality and Community Impacts | Social Ecology-Environmental Health, Science & Policy | Dr. Maura Allaire | 4/28/2019 | 4/2021 |
| School of Social Sciences | Area of Research | Faculty Mentor | Submitted | Post Until |
| The Cognitive, Computational Neuroscience of Memory-Guided Decisions | Social Sciences-Cognitive Sciences/Psychology | Professor Aaron Bornstein | 4/16/2019 | 12/2026 |