News: Undergraduate Research

The brain is the most complicated object in the known universe, but as scientists are learning, it offers five important clues for understanding its wonders.

The Freshman Research Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin received awards at this year's worldwide competition which attracted more than 800 submissions in...

Students and scientists discuss the importance of getting involved in research early.

Avani Patel and Seihak Long have both won major awards for their innovative ideas.

Undergraduate researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are creating diagnostics to test mosquitos for blood-borne pathogens such as malaria, dengue fever and chikungunya...

Exposing first-year college students to real research experiences alongside faculty scientists is something The University of Texas at Austin has been doing for a decade...

College freshmen involved in UT Austin's Freshman Research Initiative work in labs on the real-world problem of System Security.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Freshman Research Initiative (FRI), we visit with some of the alumni of the program, like Human Development...

The groundbreaking Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) program at The University of Texas at Austin helped a pair of students put a coveted feather in their...