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.
College of Architecture & Planning
Valerie Greer
Sarah Hinners
Shundana Yusaf
David Eccles School of Business
Ariel Blair
School for Cultural & Social Transformation
Ana Antunes
Annie Isabel Fukushima
Edmund Fong
Claudia Geist
Kim Hackford-Peer
Thomas Swensen
School of Dentistry
Melodie Weller
College of Education
Lauren Barth-Cohen
Cynthia Benally
Erin Castro
Aaron Fischer
José Gutiérrez
Monika Lohani
College of Engineering
Jake Abbott
Rajeev Balasubramonian
Jeffery Bates
Tamara Bidone
Robby Bowles
Marc Calaf
Rogelio Cardona-Rivera
Tara Deans
Alan Dorval
Daniel Drew
Cynthia Furse
Bruce Gale
Tao Gao
Jacob George
Ramesh Goel
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan
David Grainger
Thomas Henderson
Tucker Hermans
Robert Hitchcock
Jacob Hochhalter
Kerry Kelly
Jay Kim
Marina Kogan
Yong Lin Kong
Jessica Kramer
Jan Kubanek
Alan Kuntz
Rob MacLeod
Andrew Merryweather
Mark Minor
Swomitra Mohanty
Pania Newell
Chris Pantelides
Sameer Patil
Shahrzad Roshankhah
Shad Roundy
Frank Sachse
Benjamin Sanchez Terrones
Taylor Sparks
Lucas Timmins
Roseanne Warren
David Warren
Jennifer Weidhaas
Jason Wiese
Heayoung Yoon
Thomas Zangle
Haohan Zhang
Mu Zhang
College of Fine Arts
Sonia Alberto-Sobrino
Daniel Clifton
Elizabeth Craft
Alexandra Harbold
Meekyung MacMurdie
Brian Snapp
Miriam Sobrino
College of Health
Genevieve Albouy
Yang Bai
Sihem Boudina
Jesse Christensen
Christopher Depner
Micah Drummond
Peter Fino
Rajeshwary Ghosh
Samantha Gustafson
Tanya Halliday
William Holland
Skyler Jennings
Jessica King
Bradley King
Anandh Babu Pon Velayutham
John David Symons
Joel Trinity
College of Humanities
Matthew Basso
Lindsey Drager
Leslie Frances
Kendall Gerdes
Jay Jordan
ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball
Maureen Mathison
Jerry Root
Carlos Santana
Margaret Wan
College of Medicine
Samir Abdelrahman
Andrew Anderson
Amanda Bakian
Anna Beaudin
Maria Bettini
Josh Bonkowsky
KC Brennan
Owen Chan
Dipayan Chaudhuri
Clement Chow
Scott Collingwood
Hilary Coon
Melissa Cortez
Donna Cross
Michael Deans
Edward DiBella
Stavros Drakos
Gregory Ducker
Bruce Edgar
Karen Eilbeck
Nels Elde
Julio Facelli
Thomas Fallin
Nicholas Frost
Ramkiran Gouripeddi
Heath Henninger
Lyen Huang
Man Hung
Sudha Jayaraman
Randy Jensen
Sujee Jeyapalina
Lisa Joss-Moore
Kensaku Kawamoto
Lindsay Keegan
Joseph Kim
Anne Kirchhoff
David Krizaj
Kristen Kwan
Kent Lai
Tracey Lamb
Scott Langenecker
Amy Lenz
Catherine Loc-Carrillo
Andres Maricq
Erin McGlade
Brian Mickey
Benjamin Myers
Henrik Odeen
Jennifer Ose
Allison Payne
Marcus Pezzolesi
Candace Reno
Russell Richardson
Viola Rieke
Aylin Rodan
Jared Rutter
Lubdha Shah
Alex Shcheglovitov
Jill Shea
Yan-Ting Shiu
Sarina Sinclair
Matthew Thiese
Martin Tristani-Firouzi
James VanDerslice
Matt Wachowiak
Melissa Watt
Robert Welsh
Dustin Williams
Yelena Wu
Jun Yang
Moriel Zelikowsky
Jie Zhang
College of Mines & Earth Sciences
Leif Anderson
Sivaraman Guruswamy
Gannet Hallar
Randall Irmis
Cari Johnson
Mark Loewen
Daniel Mendoza
Jeffrey Moore
Thomas Reichler
Kathleen Ritterbush
Xuming Wang
College of Nursing
Lauri Linder
Katherine Supiano
Djin Tay
Lisas Taylor-Swanson
College of Pharmacy
Marco Bortolato
Katharine Diehl
Shreya Goel
David Grainger
Jindřich Kopeček
Shawn Owen
Eric Schmidt
Peter West
Karen Wilcox
College of Science
William Anderegg
Connor Bischak
William Brazelton
Benjamin Bromley
Bethany Buck-Koehntop
Sophie Caron
Fabienne Chevance
Shanti Deemyad
Bryn Dentinger
Regina Frey
James Gagnon
Jordan Gerton
Wesley Hamilton
Ming Hammond
Julie Hollien
Sean Howe
Kelly Hughes
Talia Karasov
John Longino
Ryan Looper
Michael McIntosh
John Parkinson
Nitin Phadnis
Wayne Potts
Aaron Puri
Jon Rainier
Andrew Roberts
Andrey Rogachev
Caroline Saouma
Anurag Singh
Joshua Steffen
Michael Werner
Luisa Whittaker-Brooks
Daniel Wik
College of Social & Behavioral Science
Brian Baucom
Katie Baucom
Cynthia Berg
Shannon Boomgarden
Andrea Brunelle
Adrienne Cachelin
Larry Coats
Brian Codding
Elisabeth Conradt
James Curry
Lisa Diamond
Marissa Diener
Trafton Drew
Tyler Faith
Jennifer Follstad Shah
Sara Grineski
Akiko Kamimura
Kim Korinek
Lori Kowaleski-Jones
Shane Macfarlan
Thomas Maloney
Ella Myers
Brennan Payne
Mitchell Powers
Kenneth Raby
Brent Steele
Jeanine Stefanucci
David Strayer
Timothy Tim
Becky Utz
Jennifer Watt
Tim Webster
Guangzhen Wu
College of Social Work
Tiffany Baffour
Sarah Canham