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Freshman Researchers Receive Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for Groundbreaking Mosquito Diagnostic Plan

June 9, 2015 • by Christine Sinatra

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

Features

Freshman Research Starts at UT, Changes the World

April 8, 2015 • by Steven E. Franklin

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).

Features

Freshmen Fight Cyber Attacks and Other Societal Threats

March 19, 2015 • by Christine Sinatra

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.

Features

Freshman Research Initiative Alum Spotlight: Elvira Marquez

January 21, 2015 • by Steven E. Franklin

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...

Accolades

Freshman Research Initiative Students Published in Nature Genetics

December 19, 2014 • by Steven E. Franklin

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...