The Undergraduate Research Fellowship program provides support for specific scholarly research projects conducted by full-time UT undergraduate students enrolled in any department.
The University Co-operative Society generously funds the URF Program, along with additional funds from the Student Government and University colleges and schools.
This competition provides support for scholarly research projects conducted by UT Austin undergraduate students. Fellowships are intended to cover costs associated with independent research projects proposed and written by student applicants and undertaken under the supervision of a University tenured or tenure-track faculty member, lecturer, senior lecturer, or full-time research scientist/engineer.
A total of 112 URFs were awarded in fall 2008. 26 were awarded within the Cockrell School of Engineering, 15 of which were Biomedical Engineering students!
BME Students and Supervising Professors
Sung Ji Ahn
Prof. Christine Schmidt
David A. Cantu
Prof. Nicholas Peppas
Dhruv Desai
Profs. Christine Schmidt and John Zhang
Garrett E. Ghent
Prof. Muhammad Zaman
Frank Gu
Prof. Muhammad Zaman
Daphne Q. Hao
Prof. Muhammad Zaman
Daniel W. Hensley
Prof. Kenneth Diller
Derek R. Jones
Prof. Nicholas Peppas
Sueyeon Lee
Prof. Christine Schmidt
Brandon S. Nichols
Prof. James Tunnell
Jeffrey W. Taylor
Prof. Muhammad Zaman
Jennifer E. Vanscoy
Prof. Christine Schmidt
Diego A. Vargas
Prof. Muhammad Zaman
Daniel B. Walk
Prof. Christine Schmidt
Mingde Zheng
Prof. Adela Ben-Yakar (Mechanical Engineering)
Other engineering students supervised by biomedical engineering professors also won URFs:
Daniel A. Barrera (ChE)
Prof. Muhammad Zaman
Barbara L. Ekerdt (ChE)
Prof. Nicholas Peppas
Robert N. Seidel (ChE)
Prof. Nicholas Peppas
Matthew H. Winters (ChE)
Prof. Nicholas Peppas
Jose F. Ybarra (BIO)
Prof. Christine Schmidt
Congratulations to our winners and to their professors and labs!
