News: Undergraduate Research
Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Here's What Research Did for Me, Student Stories
Students and scientists discuss the importance of getting involved in research early.
![Portraits of five college students](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/fri_blog-cover700.jpg)
Textiles and Apparel Students Win Prestigious National Awards
Avani Patel and Seihak Long have both won major awards for their innovative ideas.
![UT textiles and apparel faculty members Nancy Prideaux and Sara Stevens accompanied the scholarship winners to the YMA awards dinner in New York. Left to right: Nancy Prideaux, Debby Garcia, Avani Patel, Clare Moore, Tami Gumilar, Daeci Dinh, Sara Northcutt, and Sara Stevens.](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/winners-lg-2.jpg)
UT News
Freshman Researchers Receive Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for Groundbreaking Mosquito Diagnostic Plan
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...
![A student researcher and instructor compare notes in front of a pair of test tubes as one of them holds a cell phone](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/riedel-student-diy-diagnostics-crop_20150609-163334_1.jpeg)
Freshman Research Starts at UT, Changes the World
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...
![Representatives from across the US met on the UT Austin campus recently to compare FRI-like efforts at their institutions. From left to right are: Megan Fegley (Binghamton University), Staci Rodenbusch (UT Austin), Kevin Schug (UT Arlington), Nancy Stamp (Binghamton University), Patrick Killion (University of Maryland), Erin Dolan (UT Austin), Stephen Aley (UT El Paso), and Eman Ghanem (UT Austin).](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/fricon1.jpg)
Freshmen Fight Cyber Attacks and Other Societal Threats
College freshmen involved in UT Austin's Freshman Research Initiative work in labs on the real-world problem of System Security.
![Students at a table in the GDC atrium looking at laptop computers and sharing their coding projects.](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/4-3-demo-days-computer-science.jpg)
Freshman Research Initiative Alum Spotlight: Elvira Marquez
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...
![Elvira Marquez](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/elvira-700x420.jpg)
Freshman Research Initiative Students Published in Nature Genetics
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...
![The fibrous roots of white Albina Vereduna beets (control plant, left) turn red when they overexpress a particular transcription factor that upregulates red betalain pigment production (right).](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/overexpressionbvmyb-782.jpg)