The Undergraduate Studies Office of Undergraduate Research faculty affiliates represent multiple colleges across campus and are excited to announce the launch of the OUR Faculty Affiliates beginning Fall 2022.
Faculty mentors 2021 – 2022 (UROP, SPUR and OURA awardee faculty mentors) will be legacied in as Faculty affiliates for the Fall 2022 academic year.
To learn more about becoming a faculty affiliate, contact our@utah.edu or schedule a meeting with the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Annie Isabel Fukushima.
Faculty who are considered OUR faculty affiliates:
- Serve as an UROP / SPUR mentor
- Are faculty running research summer programs in partnership with OUR as a Summer Program Partner
- Faculty who provide substantial service such as a reviewer of UROP applications, and/or the Monson Prize Winner
- Hold the status of University of Utah faculty.
Other forms of prospective eligibility
- Partner with OUR to hire undergraduate researchers through a grant, foundation, or external partnership, in agreement with OUR
- Substantial service in facilitating workshops with the OUR Undergraduate Research Education Series
Optional: activities of faculty affiliates:
- Serve as a symposium poster evaluator
- Other activities agreed upon with the Office of Undergraduate Research
In order to maintain an active and engaged community, the OUR Faculty Affiliates will be reviewed every semester. Affiliate faculty will be asked to demonstrate the following:
- Collaborations with undergraduate researchers; and
- Demonstration of continued engagement with OUR activities or mentoring undergraduate researchers
Faculty affiliates will be reviewed every 2 years.
There are many benefits to becoming a faculty affiliate of the Office of Undergraduate Research. Because faculty members are part of a larger multi- and interdisciplinary research community with a broad focus on a range of issues working with teams or partnerships with undergraduate researchers, the following are benefits to being a faculty affiliate
- Invitation to OUR events such as the Undergraduate Research Symposium, the OUR Awards Ceremony.
- Listed as a faculty affiliate on the OUR website during the year of affiliation to create greater visibility of the excellent mentors across campus.
- Invitation to attend a UROP / SPUR faculty orientation, to learn more about updates on opportunities and working with the Office of Undergraduate Research.
- A letter from the Director/Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies acknowledging the faculty’s role as an OUR faculty affiliate / Graduate Student affiliate.
- OUR Faculty Affiliates do not receive a stipend in this affiliated role and are free to remove their name from the OUR website listing of faculty affiliates.
All Faculty Affiliates
- Attend OUR Program Partner quarterly meetings when available
- Maintain an effective faculty mentor record
- Attend Undergraduate Research Symposium (virtual events or in-person) or the Utah Conference of Undergraduate Research when available
- Promote OUR opportunities
- Commit to mentoring undergraduate researchers or supporting processes that lead to undergraduate researchers receiving opportunities (i.e., future funding, graduate school application, job placement, or other activities that indicate positive research experience tied to future goals).
- Demonstrate sustained engagement with the OUR activities and programs.
For UROP and SPUR Faculty Mentors
- Attend UROP / SPUR meetings as outlined by the specific programs
- Adhere to faculty expectations of the said program.
Contact the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research: Dr. Annie Isabel Fukushima.
Faculty who served as SPUR and UROP mentors 2021 – 2022 were legacied-in as OUR faculty affiliates. This list represents faculty mentors as of summer 2021.
College of Architecture & Planning
Divya Chandrasekhar
Valerie Greer
Sarah Hinners
Andy Hong
Milad Mozari
Alexandra Ponette-González
Alessandro Rigolon
Joerg Ruegemer
Shundana Yusaf
David Eccles School of Business
Lyda Bigelow
Glen Kreiner
Sara Malik
Amelia Stillwell
School for Cultural & Social Transformation
Ana Antunes
Elizabeth Archuleta
Andrea Baldwin
Annie Isabel Fukushima
Edmund Fong
Lezlie Frye
Claudia Geist
Alborz Ghandehari
Kim Hackford-Peer
Ed Munoz
Thomas Swensen
School of Dentistry
Melodie Weller
College of Education
Lauren Barth-Cohen
Cynthia Benally
Erin Castro
Aaron Fischer
José Gutiérrez
Lauren Liang
Monika Lohani
Paton Roden
Claire Son
Karen Tao
Lynne Zummo
College of Engineering
Jake Abbott
Amir Arzani
Rajeev Balasubramonian
Jeff Bates
Edoardo Battaglia
Dmitro Bedrov
Tamara Bidone
Simon Binder
Robby Bowles
Daniel Brown
Anthony Butterfield
Marc Calaf
Rogelio Cardona-Rivera
Daisy Carvalho Fernandes
Jiyoung Chang
Ashley Dalrymple
Tara Deans
Chuck Dorval
Stavros Drakos
Daniel Drew
Shireen Elhabian
Yantao Fan
Henry Fu
Cynthia Furse
Bruce Gale
Tao Gao
Jake George
Ramesh Goel
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan
David Grainger
Thomas Henderson
Tucker Hermans
Robert Hitchcock
Jacob Hochhalter
Edward Hsu
Huiwen Ji
Priyank Kalla
Kerry Kelly
Jay Kim
Marina Kogan
Jessica Kramer
Jan Kubanek
Alan Kuntz
Kam Leang
Tommaso Lenzi
Alexander Lex
Yong Lin Kong
Jessica Kramer
Jan Kubanek
Alan Kuntz
Rob MacLeod
Ana Marasovic
Juan Medina
Rajesh Menon
Andrew Merryweather
Mark Minor
Kami Mohammadi
Swomitra (Bobby) Mohanty
Ken Monson
Stefan Nagy
Pania Newell
Alex Novoselov
Pavel Panchekha
Prashant Pandey
Chris Pantelides
Eric Pardyjak
Keunhan (Kay) Park
Sameer Patil
Jeff Philips
Fernando Rodríguez
Shahrzad Roshankhah
Shad Roundy
Tony Saad
Frank Sachse
Benjamin Sanchez Terrones
Samira Shiri
Taylor Sparks
Vivek Srikumar
Lucas (Luke) Timmins
Ashutosh Tiwari
Chen Wang
Pai Wang
Yunshan Wang
Roseanne Warren
David Warren
Jennifer Weidhaas
Jason Wiese
Heayoung Yoon
Shundana Yusaf
Thomas Zangle
Haohan Zhang
Mu Zhang
Xuan "Peter" Zhu
College of Fine Arts
Sonia Alberto-Sobrino
Daniel Clifton
Elizabeth Craft
John Erickson
Alexandra Harbold
Ernest Gentry
Meekyung MacMurdie
Maureen O'Hara Ure
Hubbel Palmer
Lien Fan Shen
Brian Snapp
Miriam Sobrino
Moses Williams
Wendy Wischer
College of Health
Genevieve Albouy
Yang Bai
Sihem Boudina
Amandine Choix
Jesse Christensen
Daniel (Danny) Davis
Christopher Depner
Micah Drummond
Peter Fino
Katsu Funai
Rajeshwary (Raj) Ghosh
Samantha Gustafson
Tanya Halliday
William (Will) Holland
Skyler Jennings
Jessica King
Bradley (Brad) King
Stacy Manwaring
Rhonda Nelson
Mary Playdon
Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham
Jeff Rose
John David Symons
Kota Takahashi
Joel Trinity
Honors College
Michael Gills
College of Humanities
Jenny Andrus
Maile Arvin
Matthew Basso
David (Dave) Bresnahan
Alexis Christensen
Elizabeth (Beth) Clement
Trace Daniels Lerberg
Aniello De Santo
Lindsey Drager
Tanya Flores
Leslie Frances
Disa Gambera
Kendall Gerdes
Mira Green
Gema Guevara
Matt Haber
Eric Herschthal
Anne Jamison
Jay Jordan
Aaron Kaplan
Ashton Lazarus
ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball
Crystal Lumpkins
Maureen Mathison
David Roh
Jerry Root
Peter Roady
Ed Rubin
Carlos Santana
Margaret Wan
College of Law
Jorge Contreras
Amos Guiora
School of Medicine
Samir Abdelrahman
Kurt Aobertine
Andrew Anderson
Amanda Bakian
Kelly Baron
Kaitlin (Katie) Basham
Anna Beaudin
Maria Bettini
Josh Bonkowsky
KC Brennan
Mandy Bunsawat
Robert Campbell
Owen Chan
Dipayan Chaudhuri
Clement Chow
Susanna Cohen
Scott Collingwood
Hilary Coon
Melissa Cortez
Donna Cross
Michael Deans
Rebecca Delaney
Edward DiBella
Stavros Drakos
Gregory Ducker
Bruce Edgar
Karen Eilbeck
Nels Elde
Justin English
Julio Facelli
Thomas Fallin
Nicholas Frost
Ramkiran Gouripeddi
David Grunwald
Mia Hashibe
Heath Henninger
Sheri Holmen
Harriet Hopf
Lyen Huang
Adam Hughes
Siwen Hu-Lieskovan
Man Hung
Sudha Jayaraman
Randy Jensen
Sujee Jeyapalina
Lisa Joss-Moore
Rob Judson-Torres
Panagiotis Kassavetis
Kensaku Kawamoto
Lindsay Keegan
Joseph Kim
Stephen Kimani
Jace King
Conan Kinsey
Anne Kirchhoff
Vincent Koppelmans
David Krizaj
Kai Kuck
Kristen Kwan
Kent Lai
Tracey Lamb
Scott Langenecker
Amy Lenz
Daniel Leung
Yang Liu
Catherine Loc-Carrillo
Douglas Mackay
Troy Madsen
Mark Mahan
Andres Maricq
Erin McGlade
Martin McMahon
Brian Mickey
April Mohanty
Matthew Mulvey
Benjamin Myers
Henrik Odeen
Kola Okuyemi
Brock O'Neil
Jennifer Ose
Jessica Osterhout
Sungjin Park
Natasha Pavlova
Allison Payne
Marcus Pezzolesi
Nirupama Ramkumar
Candace Reno-Bernstein
Russell Richardson
Viola Rieke
Aylin Rodan
Matthew Rondina
June Round
Jared Rutter
Mary Beth Scholand
Lubdha Shah
Alex Shcheglovitov
Jill Shea
Peter Shen
Sixiang Shi
Yan-Ting Shiu
Sarina Sinclair
Elliot Smith
Benjamin Spike
Matthew Thiese
Martin Tristani-Firouzi
James VanDerslice
Valerie Vaughn
George Vega Yon
Michele Villalobos
Michelle Vo
Matt Wachowiak
Katharine Walter
Kristin Warren
Melissa Watt
Robert Welsh
Dustin Williams
Megan Williams
Zach Wilson
Yelena Wu
Brandi Wynne
Jun Yang
Moriel Zelikowsky
Jie Zhang
College of Mines & Earth Sciences
Leif Anderson
Jamie Farrell
Sivaraman Guruswamy
Gannet Hallar
Randall Irmis
Cari Johnson
Jim Karner
Steve Krueger
Sarah Lambart
Pete Lippert
Mark Loewen
Daniel Mendoza
Jeffrey Moore
Chadlin (Chad) Ostrander
Thomas Reichler
Kathleen Ritterbush
Kip Solomon
Court Strong
Michael Thorne
Xuming Wang
College of Nursing
Lauri Linder
Rebekah Perkins
Sara Simonsen
Katherine Supiano
Djin Tay
Lisa Taylor-Swanson
College of Pharmacy
Marco Bortolato
Katharine Diehl
Raphael Franzini
Shreya Goel
David Grainger
Nitish Khurana
Mei Yee Koh
Jindřich Kopeček
Shawn Owen
Eric Schmidt
Peter West
Karen Wilcox
College of Science
Fred Adler
William Anderegg
John Belz
Connor Bischak
William Brazelton
Benjamin Bromley
Bethany Buck
Sarah Bush
Sophie Caron
Fabienne Chevance
Dale Clayton
Kyle Dawson
Shanti Deemyad
Bryn Dentinger
Vikram Deshpande
Regina Frey
James Gagnon
Jordan Gerton
Wesley Hamilton
Ming Hammond
Julie Hollien
Martin Hovarth
Sean Howe
Kelly Hughes
Selvi Kara
Talia Karasov
Alicia Lamarche
John Longino
Ryan Looper
Yao-Yuan Mao
Michael McIntosh
Shelley Minteer
Eric Montoya
John Parkinson
Nitin Phadnis
Wayne Potts
Aaron Puri
Jon Rainier
Andrew Roberts
Ofer Rog
Andrey Rogachev
Gary Rose
Caroline Saouma
Mike Shapiro
Anurag Singh
Joshua Steffen
Ryan Stolley
Michael Vershinin
Michael Werner
Luisa Whittaker-Brooks
Daniel Wik
Ayako Yamaguchi
Heejin Yoo
Chan Yul Yoo
Jingyi Zhu
College of Social & Behavioral Science
Lisa Aspinwall
Brian Baucom
Katie Baucom
Adrian Bell
Tabitha Benney
Cynthia Berg
Shannon Boomgarden
Andrea Brunelle
Adrienne Cachelin
Juliet Carlisle
Jacqueline (Jackie) Chen
Larry Coats
Brian Codding
Elisabeth Conradt
Sarah Creem-Regehr
James Curry
David De Micheli
Lisa Diamond
Marissa Diener
Trafton Drew
Frank Drews
Tyler Faith
Jennifer Follstad Shah
Rick Forster
Matthew Fry
Lindsay Gezinski
Sara Grineski
Cory Inman
Akiko Kamimura
Kim Korinek
Lori Kowaleski-Jones
Karen Kramer
Andrew Linke
Shane Macfarlan
Thomas Maloney
Theresa Martinez
Josh McCrain
Ella Myers
Brennan Payne
Mitchell Power
Lee Raby
Megan Reynolds
Sonia Salari
Carol Sansone
Philip Singer
Sarah Small
Brent Steele
Jeanine Stefanucci
David Strayer
Timothy Tim
Becky Utz
Jennifer Watt
Tim Webster
Paul White
Guangzhen Wu
College of Social Work
Tiffany D. Baffour
Sarah Canham
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