Announcements
FRI graduate and junior Grace Eckhoff's research on tuberculosis in Afghanistan was featured on the university's home page. Read more.
The Undergraduate Research Forum is an opportunity for students to present and share the research they've done over the past semester or year. The 2009 Forum took place on April 17, 2009 from 11 am - 3 pm in Welch Hall. More than 150 students gave posters describing their research. The best and most innovative posters were recognized with awards judged and sponsored by the university, faculty, alumni and industry. Learn more.
You can have your High School science teacher or counselor nominate you for admission to FRI. Nomination forms for 2010 are now open. (The last day to nominate a student for 2009 school year was May 1, 2009).
Early Bird Applications for the program are due May 1, 2010. Read more.
University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers cited the Freshman Research Initiative as a core part of the university's mission to encourage undergraduate research experience.
Read President Power's 2008 State of University Address here.
Scientists who guide research streams need to be gifted educators as well as researchers. Dr. Anne Tibbetts, Research Educator for the Mitochondrial Gene Expression Stream, is one of these gifted teachers. In recognition of her exceptional performance, she was recently granted the Faculty Service Award by the Natural Sciences Council.
Students may request Stream Switches if they wish to change streams. These requests are more likely to be granted if your Stream conflicts with a required course or if you have communicated with a Research Educator who needs more students. Switches will be processed in November, December and January as matching requests are submitted. See the Stream Sort page for the timeline.
Three UT professors, Tom Juenger, Christine Hawkes and Tim Keitt, have been awarded a $4.6 million grant to study the impact of climate change on switchgrass. As part of this grant they will start a new Research Stream on the biology of biofuels for 2011. See details.
