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The project will develop graph neural network models and software to study materials to address energy and environmental challenges.
The student is expected to have prior experience in coding and machine learning model development.
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This study applies the expressive writing paradigm from social and health psychology to study the indirect effects of exposure to and reflecting on popular tragic films on self-acceptance, depressed mood, and anxiety. Potential moderators will also…
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Explore electrochemical ways to extract Li from brine, or recycle Li. The students will learn skills and knowledge in materials chemistry, analytical chemistry, and electrochemistry.
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Diffusion models have become the most successful way in recent past to samplefrom a given distribution. One of the most notable implementations is DALL·E from Open AI,which generates images based on a prompt. In mathematical terms, the problem is to…
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This project aims to develop experimental test facilities for high-efficiency air cooling and dehumidification technologies. Cooling buildings accounts for 10% of global electrical energy consumption. The Fix Lab will work on a range of cutting-edge…
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We aim to develop new transition metal complexes with unusual placement of electrons to promote non-traditional forms of reactivity. Example applications include carbon dioxide capture and functionalization, small molecule late-stage…
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We will design new porous polymeric materials for the separation and storage of gases at ambient conditions.
Example applications include the removal of O2 from ambient air, the separation of alkenes from alkanes in the presence of sulfurous…
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We study children's understanding of the fantasy/reality distinction, their use of supernatural explanations, and their beliefs in superstition and pseudoscience.
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The Superintendent Lab seeks to support curious, detail-oriented undergraduate student researchers to support research focused on collecting, cleaning, and analyzing data on K-12 public school district superintendents (e.g., turnover and stability,…
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The religious worldviews project examines how people develop and implement religious worldviews. Using survey data, survey experiments, textual analysis, and interviews, this project will illuminate how political, social, and racial fissures exist…
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A multimethod project that examines the role of religious beliefs and institutions in shaping health guidance among marginalized populations. This project seeks to illuminate the multidimensional role of religion in health guidance and how the…
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UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2024: ALL RA POSITIONS FOR THE 2024-25 ACADEMIC YEAR HAVE BEEN FILLED. PLEASE CHECK BACK NEXT YEAR FOR OPENINGS!
The Family Asthma Study is seeking undergraduate research assistants (RAs) with an interest in community-based research…
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The EMPOWER (Elevating Multilingüe learners Prácticas and Oportunidades Within Educational Research)lab is recruiting motivated individuals interested in supporting multilingual and Latine/x students and families. Dr. Romero's research focuses on…
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This project, which was started in the class titled LAH350 Archival Advocacy during 2020-21, partnered with community members from a local Austin elementary school to build an online digital archive of their school's history. This school closed in…
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Help bring Middle English literature into the digital age! The Hoccleve Archive is a collection of textual analysis resources that are being digitized in order to advance the study of the fifteenth-century London poet Thomas Hoccleve. Using Hoccleve…
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Our lab uses wearable sensors to study how daily activities of mothers and their infants contribute to bonding and development. We use sensors - similar to a Fitbit or an Alexa - to access our participants' activity "in the wild" -- that is, in day-…
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Project JUNTOS (TOGETHER) is a lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Research in this lab focuses on the well-being of Latinx/Hispanic youth and their families. The 4th year of the JUNTOS Familia Study will launch in Fall…
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Project JUNTOS (TOGETHER) is a lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Research in this lab focuses on the well-being of Latinx/Hispanic youth and their families. For the JUNTOS School study, we seek to understand…
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Project JUNTOS (TOGETHER) is a lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Research in this lab focuses on the well-being of Latinx/Hispanic youth and their families. For the JUNTOS Familia Study, RAs will be assisting with the…
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Project JUNTOS (TOGETHER) is a lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Research in this lab focuses on the well-being of Latinx/Hispanic youth and their families. We will be starting a new program in the JUNTOS lab called…
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In this survey project, we seek to understand the experiences of Latinx/Hispanic freshmen students as they transition to UT Austin. We will be recruiting Latinx/Hispanic freshmen students to participate in an online survey about culture, health, and…
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Project JUNTOS (TOGETHER) is a lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Research in this lab focuses on the well-being of Latinx/Hispanic youth and their families. The lab currently has two projects: the Freshman Survey…
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The Anxiety & Health Behaviors Lab at UT Austin aims to identify targets for intervention, develop and pilot test novel therapeutic strategies, and investigate the effectiveness of behavioral and integrative treatments in clinical trials of…
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The purpose of this study is to identify how trauma-focused psychotherapy changes the function of brain circuitry in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and how this mediates improvements in the diminished ability to experience positive emotions…
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The Phase II study builds on my Phase I published research ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.09.011 ) documenting how public transit agencies are represented in consequential decisionmaking about regional transportation innvestments. …
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This study examines how to strengthen implementation by local city and county governments of Senate Bill (SB) 375, California’s path-breaking planning law to promote region-scale coordination of transportation and land use to improve…
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"Making Clouds Matter: Rainmaking in the American West" investigates rainmaking as a creative practice that intervenes in a moment in the water cycle, amplifying water’s phase shifting properties. Research focuses on the development and…
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Understand how children's language brokering (translate for English limited speaking parents) influences child adjustment and family relationships
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A longitudinal study on Chinese American adolescents as they transition from middle school to high school to young adulthood.
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A range of numerical modeling of mantle convection projects focused on the long-term evolution of terrestrial planets including the formation and evolution of plate boundaries. In particular, we study the role of damage memory on plate boundary…
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A study of the ethical and salutary dimensions of equanimity from Eastern and Western philosophical perspectives.
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This study examines ethnic-racial identity in young children using a multi-method, cross-sectional data collection plan. Participants are 3- to 7- year old children and their caregivers. Caregivers and children participate in a 2.5 hour assessment…
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We are conducting a research project to better understand how hospitalized children who screen positive for social determinants of health can be connected to community resources and whether receipt of community aid leads to improved health outcomes…
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The Kids Lab is looking for research assistants. The Kids Lab studies the sociocultural and family factors that influence children’s social, emotional, and brain development. We study both healthy trajectories as well as factors that increase…
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This project undertakes a new look at classical and earlier medieval sources for Chaucer's Physician's Tale (of the death of the Roman maiden, Virginia) by examining the early 14th-century Latin commentary by English Dominincan friar Nicholas Trevet…
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Human-centered exploration of how LLMs can augment human information-seeking behaviors.In this project we propose an exploratory study in which we will investigate the integration of LLMs into the human information search and retrieval process. We…
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Photocatalysis is a holy grail of sustainable energy generation and involves the direct conversion of sunlight into value-added fuels such as hydrogen. An efficient photocatalyst simultaneously requires material stability, optimal absorption of the…
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Hydrogen fuel is considered to be a promising candidate to replace fossil fuels. Water splitting via electrolysis is a promising avenue for generating hydrogen fuel in an efficient and sustainable manner. This project involves studying atomistic…
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As conventional materials such as silicon are approaching quantum mechanical limits, a new paradigm beyond Moore’s law is needed. One promising solution is neuromorphic computing, which aims to develop devices based on our own brain capable of…
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Leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning and data-driven methods to keep improving 2D and 3D full-field deformation measurement (e.g., digital image correlation, stereo 3D digital image correlation, digital volume correlation, particle…
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In the lab, we are analyzing behavioral, genetic, and environmental data related to monkeys with different types of color vision living in rich tropical environments. We also analyze tissue and fecal samples to genotype the monkeys that we are…
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Professor Griffin seeks to help bring integrity to the financial system and along with other professors and researchers has a team that investigates and does big data research on various aspects of the financial system.
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How we can empower people to become motivated and effectively self-regulated learners? Learners must have the right mindset—they must be motivated and interpret the experience of difficulty in productive ways—but they also have to know effective…
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The group visit is a novel form of delivering healthcare. The model that we implemented and have run at Community Care since 2009 is called Centering Parenting. The three tenets of group well child are assessment, education and support. …
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Community engaged research design to identify needs/skills/desires of people in East Austin and on campus as is relates to food and the environment. Spreading wildflower seeds as a greenbelt; education on community garden and sustainable foraging;…
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This project examines public and academic libraries as information and community hubs to provide mental health support to young adults. At this stage, we plan to review existing news articles, library newsletters, and journal articles reporting…
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With downturns in markets, fraud is often revealed (think crypto recently). This is an excellent opportunity for those interested in uncovering fraud, data science, and learning about research. Opportunity for those intellectually curious students…
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Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) is a growing epidemic. Early detection of symptomatic states and continuous monitoring are regarded as effective measures to minimize the impact of the disease as various forms of intervention can…
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The need to minimize greenhouse gas emissions, ensure energy security, and improve industrial output and competitiveness, have created a growing demand for engineering systems and functional materials with improved energy efficiency and longer…
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My group is interested in students with backgrounds in engineering, chemistry, materials science, computer science, and physics. We use high-performance computing to simulate materials at the atomic scale and to predict new materials with superior…
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The Texas PRIDE in Health Collaborative is looking for undergraduate and graduate students interested in supporting various projects related to LGBTQ+ Health. Our current projects include:
TIME ACE - Timing & Intensity: Measuring and Evaluating…
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Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) requires a lot of trust in management from the investor's perspective. In such a setting, what is the auditor's role?
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This project focuses on gathering data to assess the impact of (1) candidate efforts to shape news media coverage, and (2) news media coverage on political and electoral perceptions. The focus includes media inquiries to the campaigns; print, online…
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The Laboratory for Leveraging Evidence and Advancing Practice for Youth Mental Health Services (LEAP Lab) focuses on designing and testing mental health treatments that work in the real world for underserved children and adolescents. We examine the…
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Children do best when parents and teachers work together to support their development and learning, yet many school systems struggle to effectively engage with parents as valued partners. ParentCorps, a scalable early childhood program for pre-k…
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The developmental intelligence lab (https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/dil/), directed by Prof. Chen Yu, is seeking research assistants. The main research of the lab focuses on using state-of-the-art sensing and computing techniques to understand human…
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Long-term, highly accurate in situ observations of the ocean climate components, both physical and biogeochemical, are essential, in conjunction with observations collected by other means and with complementary sampling strategies, so that climate…
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A monograph-length project that examines the jubilee legislation in Leviticus 25 and its reception in ancient Jewish and Christian literature through the lens of Utopian Studies.
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A commentary (under contract with Oxford University Press) on the biblical book of Daniel that examines the work through various methodological lens, including Philology, History of Interpretation, Masculinity Studies, and Utopian…
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Hippocampal microcircuits are comprised of excitatory pyramidal cells, which integrate information and innervate downstream brain regions, and inhibitory interneurons, which function locally to regulate pyramidal cell activity and synchronicity. In…
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The human genome is constantly attacked by endogenous and exogenous DNA-damaging agents. The Lee group seeks to understand the effects of DNA damage on DNA replication, mutations, and cancer development using combined tools of synthetic chemistry,…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays an increasingly important role in many aspects of society, including education. One of the most beneficial contributions of AI is the personalization of learning with tools such as intelligent tutoring systems,…
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Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology is looking for students interested in computational research. Our group works on a broad range of topics in exploration geophysics, from wave-equation seismic imaging and inversion to computational…
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Our lab's mission is to build more just and empowering workplaces and cities by creating technology that strengthens individual and collective human decision-making. We have several projects that investigate the societal implications of AI and…
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Overview: The goal of the AudiAnnotate Audiovisual Extensible Workflow (AWE) project is to accelerate access to, promote scholarship and teaching with, and extend understanding of significant digital AV collections in the humanities.
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Documenting four decades of research and teaching in community change processes for resilience and social equity. Focus on community-based planning in Austin, elsewhere in US, and in Global South, especially Latin America.
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Dr. Sandel is seeking students with expertise in computer programming to join our team in the Primate Ethology and Endocrinology lab this semester.
Most data organization and analysis is in the R programming language, so that is preferred. But those…
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What is adolescence and what animals have it?
People have been studying primates in the wild for a good portion of the last century. Now there is a lot of information out there, giving scientists an opportunity to detect patterns to infer…
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Dr. Sandel is seeking students interested in volunteering as a research assistant with the Primate Ethology and Endocrinology (PEE) lab in the Department of Anthropology. We study primate behavior and physiology, with questions that focus on…
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Bullfighting in Revolutionary Mexico
This is a new project on the history of bullfighting in modern Mexico and its relationship to Mexico’s Revolution and one-party Institutional Revolutionary regime (1910-2000). This will be the first…
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The year 2023 marks the centenary of the founding of the Texas Historical Commission, a body sponsored by the Knights of Columbus that was also publisher of Carlos E. Castañeda’s Our Catholic Heritage in Texas (1936-1958), a veritable monument in…
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We have reconstructed the evolution of a neural social decision-making network across vertebrates and found that gene expression profiles in these behaviorally relevant brain regions are remarkably conserved. Our analyses suggest that the diversity…
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Individuals integrate information about their social and physical environment into adaptive behavioral responses, yet how the presence of different social partners and different sensory modalities contribute to these decisions and where in the brain…
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The Histria Multiscalar Archaeological Project (HMAP) is a research project focused on the investigation of human-environment interactions and human and animal mobility from the Archaic to the Late Roman period at the ancient site of Histria (also…
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One of six flagship projects of the Planet Texas 2050 Grand Challenge program of the Bridging Barriers Initiative, Stories of Ancient Resilience seeks to deploy research into the responses of past urban societies to climate change and demographic…
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This research investigates Amazonian languages, and has several facets. One ongoing area of research involves investigating processes of language contact and change in South American languages. This work has involved loanwords, numeral systems,…
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Republicans and Democrats often overestimate how extreme the differences between the two sides. They hold misperceptions about the other side that results in more distrust and animosity. We will design a fun wordle-like game to correct these…
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I am researching a book-length social history of the experience of personhood colloquially known as "having a soul."
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My book project demonstrates the complex, evolving relationship between textual representations and conceptions of tragedy and the practice of emotional self-restraint as part of the civilizing process in France from the Middle Ages to the end of…
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We are interested in the cognitive biases that characterize depression and how to alter or improve these biases in adults with depression. Research investigates cognitive factors of depression using behavioral tasks, eye tracking, clinical…
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The newest line of investigation in my laboratory centered on deciphering the functional role of testicular macrophages and other leukocytes in the pubertal testis after exposure to the Sertoli cell toxicant mono-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (MEHP).…
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We are experimentally characterizing and modeling dynamic, nonlinear behavior of viscoelastic materials, including hydrogels, biological tissues, and foam materials, under various strain-rate (10^-4 ~ 10^7 s^-1) dynamic loading. The goal of this…
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The Latino Research Institute is recruiting for several Undergraduate Research Assistant positions. Please share the following to anyone who may be qualified and interested:
Training Programs: This position supports several…
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In many countries around the world, politicians or their agents offer voters selective benefits such as food, cash, building supplies, medical services, and access to education in exchange for political support. Do these vote-buying attempts work?…
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The Developmental Intelligence (DI) lab focuses on building an integrated science of learning in humans and machines. Recent advances in the theory and practice of machine learning, data science, and statistics have led to unprecedented capabilities…
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The ASD Screening and Parent ENgagement (ASPEN) Intervention Program is a culturally-informed, parent-mediated intervention program that is designed to provide support and training to caregivers of children with or with an elevated likelihood for…
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Currently examining cognitive and behavioral phenotypes in pediatric frontal lobe epilepsy.
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Schraegle WA, Tillman R, Ailion A, Babajani-Feremi A, Titus JB, DeLeon RE, Clake, D, Hermann BP. Behavioral phenotypes of…
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The objective of this study is to build the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network to support the development of a Network…
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Please reach out in Fall 2022 if you are interested to be a part of this project!
In a collaboration with the Wolf and Farrior labs of UT Austin EEB, we are working on the second run of a plant ecology field experiment at the Brackenridge…
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The Pediatric Coping and Language Lab studies family, linguistic, and sociocultural influences on children’s adaptation to stress. Our research focuses on families faced with chronic stressors, such as a child’s medical illness, to better understand…
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Older sexual minorities constitute approximately 3 million Americans, a number expected to double by 2030. Moreover, 35% of SGM adults in the US reside in the South, yet many studies focus on SGM samples in coastal metropolitan cities. Sexual and…
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Children do best when parents and teachers work together to support their development and learning, yet many school systems struggle to effectively engage with parents as valued partners. ParentCorps, a scalable early childhood program for pre-k…
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This research examines the dispersal and foraging processes of native bees in natural and human-altered landscapes. Native bees are one of the most effective crop pollinators and are also among the first species to be lost as natural habitat is…
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We are interested in having motivated, responsible undergraduate research assistants join our lab group to assist with various ongoing projects. The focus of our research group’s work is on the comparative evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology…
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Cell polarity is a cell behavior in which one side of a cell adopts characteristics that are different from the other side. For example, our lungs, intestines and many other internal organs are made up of cells that are polarized: They have one…
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The SOGI: Health and Rights laboratory focuses on the role of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in human health, development, and rights. Our projects focus on the links between SOGI and health/well-being, with an emphasis on how…
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Machine Learning (ML) is an innovative paradigm in materials science that enables accurate prediction of properties, rational design, and physical insights across multiple length- and time-scales. This tool is particularly useful to optimize…
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This project will be using geochemical signatures in lake sediments from the Colorado Rockies to reconstruct past changes in climate and the environment.
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This work will involve the analysis of natural water samples for light stable isotope analysis (oxygen and hydrogen). It will involve use of a vacuum extraction system and analysis using a laser stable isotope spectrometer. The project will look at…
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The Main UT campus has been modeled with the help of the open street map and UT architectural drawings in the Rhino Modeling tool. Buildings have been categorized based on their construction year, and they are color-coded. Material properties have…
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Throughout summer and fall 2021, I'll be working with a team to examine what is known about communication and young adult cancer. We have already all the articles published in the area and will be looking through them to find patterns, gaps, and…
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Multiple openings for funded undergraduate research assistant (URA) position in manufacturing of 3D nanostructures. Recent progress in nanotechnology have resulted in novel materials that can not be found in traditional bulk materials, such as anti-…
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Multidisciplinary team (nursing, medicine) conducting scoping review on emerging concept of sex as self-injury. Looking for RA to help with article retrieval and potential review, if applicant is interested
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Two-year British Library-funded digitization project involving Mexican undergraduate trainees to preserve post-archival access to records of indigenous community land records in Michoacan state, Mexico (completed, 2016-2018). Analysis of the process…
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The Voces Oral History Center videotapes interviews with Latinos and Latinas of the WWII, Korean War and Vietnam War generations. it also scans archival photographs from interview subjects. It produces the annual peer-reviewed US Latina & Latino…
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SHIFT is ready for a different conversation.
For decades substance use and college campuses have been talked about as an inevitable rite of passage for college students, creating a norm that can far out shadow the dynamic pursuits of college…
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Past involvement with undergraduates and recent graduates on privately funded research has evolved with ongoing opportunities in developing wearable technologies for homeland security.
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We are working on the design, modeling, control, and prototyping for a new type of magnetically suspended linear stage with high-acceleration for next-generation photolithography scanners for semiconductor manufacturing applications.
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To realize compact, light-weight robot hands with high-level dexterity, new actuators with im-proved dynamic performance and torque-to-weight ratio are needed. The objective of this research is to develop a new type of miniature high-…
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The project relates to how history and recent activism might help us come up with new ways to approach climate change.
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This public history project seeks to return to public consciousness the state-sanctioned violence against Mexican American communities along the US-Mexican border from 1910-1920. While this series of events changed an entire way of life in the lower…
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Numerical Modeling of Subduction and Induced Surface Deformation; Analysis of earthquakes for crustal deformation
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We are developing virtual environments for a neuroscience applications to study neurological patients. The patients perform spatial navigation tasks using VR headsets. Our goal is to combine the VR with eye position tracking by programming the built…
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We are developing virtual environments for a neuroscience research project involving neurological patients performing spatial navigation tasks using VR headsets. The project entails to designing and programming virtual environments (rooms, buildings…
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Professors Daron Shaw (University of Texas), Scott Althaus (University of Illinois), and Costas Panagopoulos (Fordham University) are constructing an archive of all spot buys (commercials aired on local TV in different media markets) for all…
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This ongoing research project is aimed at completing a contracted edition of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Research tasks include working closely with the language of Shakespeare's text, including the glossing (defining) of its words and phrases…
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Students from Kenya and the US in similar entry to practice nursing education classes will connect with international peers about a universally important health issue, share clinical experiences, country specific pregnancy, birthing, newborn and…
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The project involves synthesis and advanced characterization of materials for rechargeable batteries or fuel cells and fabrication of small batteries or fuel cells for testing.
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The Afro-Hispanic Languages of the Americas (AHLAs), the languages that developed in Latin America from the contact of African languages and Spanish in colonial times, are rich in structures that would be considered ungrammatical in standard Spanish…
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The European invasion of the Andes (1530s) devastated a diverse array of indigenous communities living under Inca rule. After decades of warfare, disease, and population decline, the forced resettlement (reducciones) of more than a million native…
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The project will use supercomputers to model materials (especially two-dimensional nanomaterials) for electronic and energy applications. For more information, pls check our group website and contact Dr. Liu. We welcome students from different…
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The purpose of the study, Individualizing Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth through Digital Phenotyping, is to develop a digital phenotype of pregnancy by passively monitoring pregnant women using an app on a Smartphone to better understand pregnancy…
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Located on the Pickle Research Campus, the Texas Natural History Collections’ Ichthyology Collection contains over 53,000 specimens from around the world, but primarily from Texas, and is growing rapidly. Most specimens are stored in alcohol in jars…
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Verreaux's sifaka are lemurs living in western Madagascar. They eat mainly leaves and some fruit, flowers, seeds, and vines. They live in small, cohesive, mixed-sex social groups. This project examines all aspects of sifaka behavioral ecology,…
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I am working on a book on the impact of Central European-born designers in the United States between the two world wars. I am especially interested in researching designers' biographies and finding their works/traces in America.
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Teaching through a creative activity makes students own their project, the reading and the process of writing. This course of creative non-fiction enabled students to tell stories --some of them very intimate- in a language which is not theirs. The…
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The prevalence of 120 ± 70 nm TiO2 crystals in the T2D pancreas and non-diseased donors are mapped, as is the prevalence of these and calcium pxalate dihydrate crystals in the substantia nigra of Parkinson’s disease…
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The Fishes of Texas Project (http://www.fishesoftexas.org) has compiled, and continues to expand and refine, a large database of museum specimen-based records of the the occurrences of the state's freshwater fishes. The data are being used in…
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The mission of the Biomedical Informatics Lab is to design decision support systems for clinical decision making and scientific discovery. We seek opportunities to advance health-related quality of life and health equity.
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ONLY RECRUITING NATIVE SPANISH SPEAKING STUDENTS TO ASSIST IN SURVEYS IN SPANISH-SPEAKING POPULATIONS IN AUSTIN.
The Department of Pediatrics at Dell Med School has many excellent translational and clinical research projects going on throughout the…
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Simulate and Quantify the impacts AV on existing urban built environments (transportation, land use, urban form, pollution, travel behavior).
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1. Optimize the EV-charging station locations in Austin to reduce range anxiety and increase charging accessibility.
2. Quantify the impact of EV charging stations on existing gas stations, propose and justify new…
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Economists tend to think that the state of the economy determines vote choices. Sociologists tend to think that identity (class, religion, ethnicity, gender, and other demographics) determine vote choices. But substantial evidence shows that voters…
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The African American Resilience in Context (AARC) lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences is recruiting new undergraduate research assistants. You will be assisting with conducting a meta-analysis for a new project looking at…
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Project LEAP examines the development of children's algebraic thinking in grades K-5, and instructional practices that foster that development.
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l'Austin Thought Lab, located in the Children's Research Center in SEA, studies how children acquire abstract concepts like time and number, and how language, perception, and culture interface during cognitive development. We're seeking motivated…
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The Texas Education Consortium for Male Students of Color (The “Consortium”) officially launched in 2013, supported by grant awards from the Greater Texas Foundation (GTF), the Trelis Foundation (formerly TG), the Kresge Foundation, and the Texas…
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Project MALES (Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success) is multi-faceted research and mentoring initiative based within the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE) at the University of Texas at Austin. In…
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Texas has three species of catfishes restricted to deep underground aquifers. They are fascinating creatures, potentially endangered, and hugely in need of diverse research. Though we currently have only limited funding for sporadic fieldwork (…
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Humans are unique in how we grow. Like other mammals, we grow rapidly after birth and then growth slows. We keep getting bigger, but less and less each year. During adolescence, however, humans exhibit a growth spurt, growing rapidly in height. Is…
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I am looking for motivated students to help with projects that visually track animals in three dimensions in natural environments. I am using computer vision and Visual Simultaneous localization and Mapping (VSLAM) to track animals in three…
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Develop a framework to quantify the impacts of Uber and Lyft on urban transportation system.
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Supported by Exxonmobil, this project aims to apply our newly invented bubble printing to fabricate and investigate hierarchical structures of micro/nanostructured catalysts.
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This project, which is supported by Beckman Foundation, focuses on development and applications of virtual plasmonic tweezers that use light to dynamically manipulate micro/nnao objects.
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Supported by Naval Research Office, this project aims to develop reconfigurable multiband metasurfaces and devices with atomic-layer materials.
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Supported by National Science Foundation, this project aims to explore oxide plasmonic nanoparticles to enhance power conversion efficiency in transparent organic photovoltaics.
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This project, which is supported by Army Research Office, aims to develop and investigate optically assembled meta-materials with colloidal nanoparticles as building blocks.
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Supported by National Institute of Health, this project aims to develop portable multiplexed adhesion frequency assay and apply it to efficiently measure receptor-ligand interactions at the single-cell level.
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Supported by NASA, this project aims to develop an ultracompact opto-electro-fluidic system for preconcentration and separation of chiral molecules in in-situ life detection.
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We have developed a new method to accurately deliver drug to the eye using a soft, controllable aerosol.
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This project aims to understand how variation due to changes in talker, accent, and speech clarity impacts speech intelligibility, memory for words and word recognition for native listeners and for listeners whose native language background varies…
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The goal of this project is to improve localization of seizure foci utilizing Electrocorticography (ECoG) recordings made using subdural electrode grids covering large areas of the brain in epilepsy patients. These recordings are done independently…
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The cloud computing revolution opens the possibility for scientific researchers to obtain large amounts of computing power only when they require it, leaving maintenance and upgrades to centralized facilities. We would like to set up a testbed for…
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The Houston TRAIN (Transportation Related Activity in Neighborhoods) Study is a collaborative effort of The University of Texas School of Public Health and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. This study will examine the short and long-term…
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The Houston TRAIN (Transportation Related Activity in Neighborhoods) Study is a collaborative effort of The University of Texas School of Public Health and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. This study will examine the short and long-term…
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The Phelps lab is broadly interested in animal social behavior, its brain mechanisms, and how those mechanisms evolve. We do a variety of work ranging from mechanisms of gene regulation to the fitness consequences of social behaviors in natural…
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New developments in GPS and related satellite tracking technologies have facilitated the collection of highly accurate data on moving objects, far surpassing the ability to analyze them. Within geographic information science (GIScience), ‘movement…
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The undergraduate student will work with large databases using statistical software packages such as STATA, SAS, etc.
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Experiments studying the charm quark need to understand how frequently it decays into different possible final states. The CLEO experiment collected a huge sample of charm quark decays which can be analyzed to measure these probabilities with high…
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I am looking for motivated students to work on a computer vision project in the biology department. The project centers on a specialized hyperspectral polarization camera (12 visual channels) that will be used to monitor and map out underwater…
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Nanoparticles of novel metals (e.g. Au and Ag) support localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs), the light-coupled coherent oscillation of free electrons confined in the particles. Due to the capability of LSPRs in concentrating light at the…
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Following the discovery of the Higgs Boson, particle physicists are trying to determine what the next major experimental facilities to be built will be. The process is ongoing now and needs input as to what the potential capabilities of different…
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Optical spectroscopy is a powerful and non-invasive tool to measure thermal properties in a wide range of materials. Temperature dependent optical properties change, such as reflectivity, transmissivity, have to be pre-determined in order to extract…
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Our research group has a continuing need for undergraduate researchers both hands-on and computer related in Additive Manufacturing.
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We are developing a new web-based platform for publication of scientific information. The project was born from observing the highly inefficient practices currently dominating the dissemination of scientific information. Instead of fixing these…
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The generation of chemical fuels using only sunlight and widely found starting materials (H2O, CO2) is part of a growing field of chemical research known as "Solar Fuels" Generation. In the Rose group, we approach this field by starting…
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Hydrogenase enzymes found in methanogenic bacteria utilize dihydrogen (H2) as an energy source for the eventual reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) to sugars for use in cellular processes. Our lab's goal is to utilize the known crystal structure…
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The selective activation of methane (CH4) by chemical catalysts (i.e. energy utilization by means other than combustion) is a widely sought after goal. The Rose group seeks to develop novel catalysts and ligand systems for both CH4 and carbon…
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I am involved in a long-term multi-sited exploration of jazz *outside* of the US. Questions include: the role of race and class; stylistic variations; and the alternative political uses of the music in various contexts. Sites include Sweden, South…
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The Phelps lab is broadly interested in animal social behavior, its neural, genetic and molecular mechanisms, and how those mechanisms evolve. Using “exotic” rodent models, we focus on the nature and consequences of within- and between-species…
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AEWorldMap.com is a website (blog) which features short entries about the most recent contemporary architecture around the globe. The site focuses on buildings that are of interest to architects, engineers, construction firms and the general public…
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This project works with a data on Hispanic small businesses to identify factors that determine their success. The student will be hired as a "student associate" and will make $10.50/hour. He/she will work 20 hours/week. The…
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Theoretical studies on metal-containing molecules is essential to understanding their roles in catalysis, energy conversion and electronic structures. The Rose group focuses on the synthesis of novel metal-containing complexes -- organometallics --…
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We would like to design experiments for quantifying the level of consciousness on human subjects (Parkinson's patients) undergo brain surgery. These experiment will apply visual stimulation presented on a laptop computer in the OR. We are…
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The use of species distribution models (SDM) to map and monitor animal and plant distributions has become increasingly important in the context of awareness of environmental change and its ecological consequences. Although increasingly sophisticated…
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