Undergraduate students are invited to attend the 2nd Annual Undergraduate Research Fair! Join us at this unique tabling event featuring faculty showcasing their research and sharing opportunities for undergraduates to engage in research experiences. Research program staff will also be available to provide information about research programs and resources.
TIPS for student attendees
UR FAIR MAP
TABLE NUMBER LIST
DATE: Thursday, October 10, 2024
TIME: 3:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m.
PLACE: ARC Ballroom and Courtyard
List still growing and subject to change:
Animal Science, Jackson Gross - Hydroponic Plant Production
Anthropology, Christina Moya - Peruvian Andes Religious Pilgrimage Site
Betty Irene School of Nursing, Victoria Keeton - Topics include: epigenetic markers of infant weight gain; caregiver support of older adults with cardiovascular disease, cancer survivors, or
dementia; smart home health monitoring for remote management of chronic conditions; and health and justice equity for people who have experienced violence; general information about other research faculty
Biomedical Engineering, Yongheng Wang - BioInnovation Lab, BIG (BioInnovation Group), BIG-RT (Research Training)
Biomedical Engineering, Marc Facciotti - Single-Cell Spatial Transcriptomics, Generative A.I.
Brain and Social Cognition (BASC) Lab - Olufemi Shakuur Nyabingi - We are a developmental social cognitive neuroscience laboratory at UC Davis. Our lab is working to uncover how the ‘social brain’ develops! As humans, we navigate a complex social world in which we communicate, cooperate, and empathize; we reason about the covert contents of the mind to predict and explain overt behavior. From a young age, infants and children are forming the building blocks of social understanding and competent social behavior. We’re interested in how the brain supports this development, and how brain developments interact with and are influenced by aspects of the child’s environment. We conduct behavioral research in conjunction with the use of EEG and ERP to examine the neural correlates of social cognition. We have a variety of undergraduate research roles available. Students interested in joining our lab can fill out our interest form, here.
California National Primate Center, Koen Van Rompay - We do a broad spectrum of research in nonhuman primates
Center for Regional Change, Andrea Bizarro - Ted Bradshaw Engaged Student Scholar Program and Isao Fujimoto Research Award. Deeply engage in policy-oriented and community-engaged research, data and visual analysis, database creation, and work with professionals in these fields
Center of Environmental Policy and Behavior, Toby Jacob - Project opportunities for undergraduates led by graduate students
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Luis Carvajal-Carmona - Cancer, Preclinical Medicines, Data Sciences/Computational Biology, Community-Participatory Research
Economics, Janine Wilson - Directed Reading Groups, Undergraduate Research Fellows Program, Honors Research Program
Educational Enrichment and Outreach Programs, Connie Champagne - Biomedical Research Programs - The UC Davis Educational Enrichment & Outreach Programs (EEOP) is home to three exciting undergraduate programs that can help you participate in life science research.
The Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program is a 1-3-year program for students with a passion for biological inquiry and a firm commitment to pursuing a PhD or MD/PhD within the field of biomedical research. MARC students participate in full-time research during the summer (with the option to spend one summer at another university of the student’s choice), and part-time research during the academic year. In addition to weekly activities aimed at development of scientific skills, program participants receive a stipend of $13,000 per year, a portion of their tuition and fees each year, and expenses for attending a national scientific conference each year.
The Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (CURE) CURE students participate in cancer research for two summers and two academic years, and other activities that help them navigate the world of cancer research. CURE students receive stipends each summer ($4,000) and each quarter ($1,000). This program is appropriate for students who intend to pursue an MD, MD/PhD, PhD, or a DVM and plan to focus on cancer research in their future career.
The Advancing Diversity in Aging Research (ADAR) Honors Program is a two-year program to increase the diversity of undergraduate students that pursue advanced degrees and research careers in aging-related areas. ADAR-Honors students conduct faculty-mentored aging research for two summers (one at UC Davis, and the second at another university of the student’s choice), and two academic years. In addition to weekly activities that develop scientific skills, program participants receive summer stipends of $4,800, quarterly stipends of $1,200, a portion of their tuition and fees each year, and travel/housing expenses for attending a national scientific conference each year. This program is appropriate for students who intend to pursue a PhD in aging biology or an MD/PhD or MD with a focus on geriatric populations and aging research.
Entomology, Christine Tabuloc - Research in Entomology
Evolution and Ecology, Jay Stachowicz - EVE Scholars Program
French & Italian, Eric Louie Russell - Language and Gender Issues, Hate Speech and Offensive Language
German, Chunjie Zhang - Neuroscience and Literature, Asian and Western Literary and Cultural Relations
Graduate Studies, Jacques Bowyer - McNair Scholars Program
Graduate School of Management, Stephen Garcia - My projects explore the "Psychology of Competition" as well as the "Psychology of Inequality"
Land, Air & Water Resources, Cristina Lazcano - Soil Ecology, Regenerative Agriculture, Carbon Sequestration, Vermicomposting
Land, Air & Water Resources, Kyle Brown - Ecological Interactions of Fish and Water Birds
Land, Air & Water Resources, Adolfo Coyotl - Dairy, Soil, Water Regeneration Project (DSWR)
Land, Air & Water Resources, Isaya Kisekka - Website Content Management, Science Communication, Field Work
Linguistics, Masoud Jasbi - Language Processing, Language Development, Logic, Statistical Modeling
McNair Scholars Program - Jacques Bowyer - The McNair Scholars Program is a federal TRIO program funded across the United States and Puerto Rico by the U.S. Department of Education. It is designed to prepare undergraduate students for doctoral studies through involvement in research and other scholarly activities. McNair participants are either first-generation college students with financial need or members of a group that is traditionally underrepresented in graduate education and have demonstrated strong academic potential. The goal of the McNair Scholars Program is to increase graduate degree awards for students from underrepresented segments of society. The McNair Scholars Program is research-focused and therefore not intended for students who wish to pursue professional degrees like medicine, law, or business management.
Marine and Coastal Sciences - Perla Diaz - Learning to use a computer system used in many behavioral studies called Ethovision.
Materials Science and Engineering, Jeremy Mason - Writing computer programs to compare material microstructures
Materials Science and Engineering, Jacob Pustelnik - Refractory High Entropy Alloys - Our vision for materials science research combines state-of-the-art manufacturing and processing, multiscale mechanical testing, advanced electron microscopy, and multiscale computation to close the feedback loop for modern structural materials design and development. The primary focus of our group is to understand the fundamental science of complex metallic materials and develop next-generation structural materials operated under extreme conditions (high temperature, high stress, ion irradiation, etc.). Key research thrusts include high-temperature multiple principal element alloys for space and aeronautical applications, additively manufactured refractory alloys for fusion energy applications, alloys with hierarchical structures for higher strength and ductility, and developing high throughput processing, testing, and characterization methodologies toward laboratory automation.
Materials Science and Engineering, Subhash Risbud - Ceramic and Glass Research
Materials Science and Engineering, Mingwei Zhang - Mechanical Testing and Characterization of Metallic Materials
Molecular Biosciences, Rebecca Wilson - Neurotoxicology in three subgroups
Molecular Biosciences, Aishwarya Bhusal - Examining the presence of particulate matter from traffic-related air pollution (TRAP)
Mouse Biology Program, Dan Port - Work Training with Animal Models
Nutrition, Eleonora Cremonini - Black Rice Effects on Cognition
Pharmacology, Chao-Yin Chen - We are looking for undergraduate students to help with data analysis on a project looking at synergistic effects of stress and traffic-related air pollution on cardiovascular health
Plant Sciences, Amelie Gaudin - Agroecology, soil sciences
Plant Sciences, Andrew Latimer - Summer forest ecology field team
Plant Sciences, Derek Young - Forest ecology fieldwork, data science, and software engineering
Psychology, Shelly Blozis - Advanced students who've taken courses in statistics (such as a course in linear regression, and computer programming (such as R/Rstudio or SAS) can gain experience in analyzing data to evaluate statistical approaches used in psychological research.
Psychology, Paul Hastings - Working with physiological data collected from infants, children and parents in studies conducted in low and middle income countries
UC Davis EcoCAR, Riddhi Puranik - Automotive Engineering Competition
UC Davis Library, Lee Riggs - Library resources and research
Undergraduate Education/URC, URC Staff - Information about sponsored academic-enrichment research programs, awards, and URC services.
Urological Surgery and Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Alan Lombard - Cancer Research Projects
Writing Center, Erica Cirillo-McCarthy - Trained consultants can work to help students evaluate and synthesize sources when they write up research, create research posters, and compose effective elevator pitches