Programs
This semester-long program in collaboration with UT Southwestern is ideal for students interested in PhD or MD/PhD programs.
What is the Green Fellows Program?
This website allows you to submit a general application to 10 research labs.
What is the Undergraduate Research Portal?
This type of lab often requires its members to perform experiments, either with chemicals or on animals to collect data.
What is a wet lab?
This public academic health science center is near UTD and a popular institution to conduct research.
What is UT Southwestern?
This program in association with UT Southwestern, Parkland Hospital, and William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital allows students to participate in clinical emergency medicine research.
What is TEMRAP?
As part of Undergraduate Research Week, one day is dedicated to allowing students to ask questions to members of present labs to find which labs might be a good fit for the student.
What is Undergraduate Research Match Day?
This type of lab focuses on collecting raw data and interpreting or drawing conclusions from it and does not involve a lot of hands-on work.
What is a dry/computational lab?
This summer program sounds similar to something you might do at a beach.
What is SURF?
This annual event at UTD near the end of summer allows students to present a research poster they produced themselves.
What is the SPUR Symposium?
This tab on eLearning likely has a page for the school you're enrolled in, which might have information on available on and off-campus research opportunities.
What is the Organizations Tab?
This type of lab's research is often performed on patients with specific conditions or past medical histories.
What is a clinical research lab?
This executive department of the federal government recently underwent a rename, and offers summer research opportunities to students of all ages, including undergraduates, across the country.
What is the Department of Defense/War (DOD / DOW)?
This program involves a 3 year commitment to doing research at UTD and is aimed at students interested in pursing a PhD.
What is the UTD MARC program?
You see these people everyday: some of them might even be your friends, and if you know they're working in a research lab, you can always ask them for advice.
What are your fellow students?
This lab analyzes samples taken from patients, looking for abnormal levels or bacteria.
What is a hospital lab?
This federally-funded summer program allows students to conduct research under the guidance of faculty at different institutions across the country.
What is REU?
This 32-week paid internship allows students to do developmental research on kids in association with UTD's Center for Children and Families.
What is the SPARK Fellowship?
This office in the Honors College provides information on national scholarships, including ones that support research and/or postgraduate study. You don't need to be an Honors student to apply!
What is the Office of Distinguished Scholarships?
This type of lab is more associated with engineering and aims to develop newer, better technologies for companies to sell and/or use.
What is a research and design (R&D) lab?
Not offered by the university itself, but UTD's chapter of this international computer science organization allows students to enter semester-long projects and research opportunities, some of which are associated with computer science faculty.
What is the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)?