STUDENT COUNCIL FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND CREATIVITY

STUDENT COUNCIL FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND CREATIVITY

The Undergraduate Research Ambassadors are a team of undergraduate researchers dedicated to helping students from all backgrounds and majors get involved in research and explore their interests. We offer one-on-one peer advising, workshops, class presentations, and more to make research accessible to students across campus.

Interested in getting involved with undergraduate research and don’t know where to begin? Set up a Peer Advising appointment with one of our Undergraduate Research Ambassadors using the links below. The links are sorted by discipline: humanities, social sciences, and STEM. Please email ura.fsu@gmail.com with any questions!

If you have questions about travel grants or finding and applying to conferences, email our Director, Drew Parker, at director.scurc@gmail.com

STEM- https://stemura.youcanbook.me
Humanities- https://humura.youcanbook.me
Social Sciences- https://ura.youcanbook.me

If you would like the URA's to explain how to get involved in research as an undergraduate to your organization please use this form https://fsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bfnwHlJWtShLi1T we will come to your next meeting and tailor the presentation to your groups interests. If you have any questions please email ura.fsu@gmail.com

Meet our team

Grace Castillo, Class of 2021

Assistant Director of SCURC, Chair of URA
Major: Criminology
Minor: Child Development

Research Focus: Teaching STEM topics to preschool

Reannan Reidy, Class of Class of 2020
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
      Major: Retail Merchandising and Product Development
      Minor: Art history and Business

Research Focus: Textiles durability and development with a focus in PPE

Maria L Velasquez, Class of 2020
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
     Major: IMS Patient Care
     Focus Area: Spanish Medical interpreting
     Research Focus: Neuroscience- Feeding behavior

Allie Bokuniewicz, Class of 2021
Undergraduate Research Ambassadors
     Major: Psychology
     Minor: Statistics
     Research Focus: Neuroplasticity in incarcerated juveniles

Hannah Pascoe, Class of 2020
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
    Major: Biology
    Minor: SAS Programming
    Research Focus: Improving genome engineering techniques by mutational analysis and rapid prototyping of antimicrobial peptide cocktails to save Florida’s oranges

Grace Nystrom, Class of 2021
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
      Major: Dietetics and Exercise Physiology
      Minor: Chemistry
      Research Focus: Worked in a molecular biophysics lab studying the protein composition of Z disks in insect fight muscle

Rana Cayir, Class of 2022
Undergraduate Research Ambassadors
Major: Psychology
Research Focus: Social Anxiety and Perfectionism

Arria Hauldin, Class of 2020 (she/her)
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
     Major: Anthropology
     Minor: Sociology
     Research Focuses: Gender and Race    Identity, Race, LGBTQIA+ Community, Online Dating, Jamaican and Haitian Student Experiences, Single Motherhood in Vietnamese culture

Kristine Luz, Class of 2021
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
Major: Psychology
Minor: Biology and chemistry
Research Focus: Neuroscience-The effect of alcohol on the circadian rhythm and mortality of Droso
phila melanogaster

Justin White, Class of 2022
Undergraduate Research Ambassador
      Major: Biology
      Minor: Chemistry
      Research Focus: How HIV bonds to cell membranes