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The Claire Trevor School of the Arts encourages dynamic practices across the four departments of Art, Dance, Drama and Music. School-level entities including the Institute for 21st Century Creativity (21C), Beall Center for Art + Technology and Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) offer opportunities for faculty and students from different departments to collaborate and engage in interdisciplinary exploration. In addition, CTSA hosts several department level entities and individual faculty led labs.

Undergraduates in the School of Biological Sciences have the opportunity to perform supervised undergraduate research alongside a mentor while getting graded units in research through Bio Sci 199. The Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences believes that successful participation in creative research is one of the highest academic goals its undergraduates can attain. Approximately 1,000 students are enrolled in and conduct experimental laboratory, field, or clinical research as an apprentice scientist under the supervision of a professor in one of the more than 250 laboratories in the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences or the School of Medicine.

The Merage School is a research institution led by renowned thought leaders in the fields of accounting, economics, finance, information technology, marketing, operations and decision technologies, organization and management and strategy. Our distinguished faculty tackle a broad range of global business topics—many of which address disruption, the role of new technologies and what it means to lead in a digitally-driven world.

The field of Education Sciences is exciting because it draws from so many different perspectives. Investigation in Education Sciences involves research using a wide range of methodological practices and research designs, and yielding a variety of data.

Today’s global complexities demand new approaches to training tomorrow’s engineers. At the Samueli School, hands-on experience and participation in research play a key role in educating undergraduate students.

There are various opportunities and programs available to support Humanities undergraduates interested in pursuing research at UC Irvine and within the School.

ICS faculty and students explore computing across a remarkable range of research areas, shedding light to the theoretical foundations of computing models, expanding the frontiers of artificial intelligence and data science, advancing the performance, security, and energy efficiency of computer systems, enabling discovery in science and engineering, experimenting with new modalities for human-machine interaction, and promoting accessible information technologies for equity and social justice. Leveraging a large and diverse network of collaborators on-campus and around the globe, they help reshape domains as far reaching as education, art and entertainment, business and law, health care and medicine, biological systems, and the environment.

Undergraduate students in the UC Irvine School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences have extensive research opportunities, including working in faculty members’ labs, writing journal articles and getting published, presenting at conferences, and participating in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)!

Research interests that our students are able to explore include synthetic biology, RNA and disease, medicinal chemistry, molecular evolution, therapeutics for childhood cancer, bioengineered tools for drug delivery, and anti-aging and health.

We offer a summer internship that allows students to experience pharmacy in the hospital setting! During this 10-week program that is exclusive to PharmSci majors, interns shadow pharmacists at the UCI Medical Center in Orange, CA.

Learn more about research opportunities with the School of Physical Sciences, including the AMPS (Anteater Mentoring in Physical Sciences) program, which connects current undergraduate students with business and science professionals.

In Orange County and beyond, Wen Public Health is committed to serving diverse communities through research, education and public service. Community-engaged research tackles real-life challenges informed by key stakeholders and is one of many research areas that Wen Public Health faculty are using to address health disparities.

The faculty pursue knowledge production and dissemination in the service of fostering informed social action as they address issues ranging from global poverty to prison overcrowding, from gang violence to healthy child development, from health risks to community empowerment. The School is an internationally recognized pioneer in developing interdisciplinary approaches to social problems that encourage flexibility and independent thinking among faculty and students and nourish collaboration across different fields and with people of many different experiences.

Learn more about our pursuit of science that drives solutions to social and environmental problems.

Undergraduates interested in research at UC Irvine and within the School of Social Sciences have a number of available opportunities and programs to support their endeavors. The highlighted programs at the link below are school-sponsored programs that elevate advanced research and inquiry within social sciences.

Centers and Institutes at UC Irvine provide a mechanism and organizational structure for collective—and often convergent—research activities that are fundamentally different from those that typically occur within individual schools or departments.