Engagement Opportunities

University of Arizona Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Undergraduate Research Program Agrivoltaics team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2024 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis.

Within this VIP, we will be tackling real and important challenges to build towards more sustainable food, energy, and water futures. Each of these food, energy, and water systems are extremely sensitive to a warming climate, and projections of more erratic precipitation will only add to these pressures. We are building the interdisciplinary field of agrivoltaics—the concept of colocating agriculture and photovoltaics (renewable energy from solar panels) as one potential solution.

University of Arizona Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Undergraduate Research Program Assessing Resilience of Arizona Grasslands to Changes in the North American Monsoon team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2024 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis.

Effective rangeland management requires planning for the impacts of climate change. Against a backdrop of rising temperature, the U.S. Southwest is experiencing fewer, larger precipitation events, and longer dry intervals between these events. While abundant research addresses chronic temperature and precipitation shifts, we lack the ability to forecast the impacts of extreme-duration drought on rangeland ecosystem services.

University of Arizona Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Undergraduate Research Program BEST-CLIM team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2024 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis.

Climate change is undeniably one of the grandest challenges that society is and will be facing over the next decades. With individual citizens, cities, corporations, and countries now being acutely aware of the potentially severe impacts entailed by rising CO2 emissions and temperatures, the call for natural climate solutions grows louder.

University of Arizona Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Undergraduate Research Program Collaborative Anthropology of Reproduction and the Environment (CARE) team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2024 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis.

Social scientists of reproduction are currently studying how “climate anxiety” — or growing concern about climate change’s harmful effects — may contribute to increasingly low fertility rates in many global locations.

University of Arizona Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Undergraduate Research Program Coral Reef Resilience team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2024 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis.

Understanding and managing the effects of climate change and human impacts on the world’s oceans are critical challenges for the 21st century. The oceans are becoming warmer, more acidic, more polluted, and less productive. These changes threaten the health and livelihood of billions of people around the world that depend on the ocean for food and other resources.

Join our collaborative project between the University of Arizona Food Systems Research Lab and the Pima County Food Alliance, focusing on building community relationships, convening expertise, and producing evidence-based findings to address complex challenges in Southern Arizona's food system. Our goals include advancing food production and access, food security, food policy, and food sovereignty while prioritizing equity, justice, and overall well-being.

University of Arizona Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Undergraduate Research Program Environmental and Social Justice team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2024 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis.

We are working on creating community-driven solutions to current challenges revolving around sustainability in 1) the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands region and 2) Portland, Oregon. We are combining culture, history, science, and more to develop resources for communities to advocate solutions that meet their needs and values.

University of Arizona Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Undergraduate Research Program Healthy Harvesters team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2024 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis.

Melanoma accounts for nearly 10% of all incident cancer cases in Arizona. While UV overexposure is the primary modifiable risk factor, obesity is also associated with increased melanoma risk and worse melanoma outcomes. Melanoma survivors are at an increased risk for second primary colorectal, breast, or prostate cancer diagnosis. Adherence to current diet and physical activity recommendations may alleviate the consequences of cancer treatment and is associated with lower cancer mortality.

University of Arizona Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Undergraduate Research Program Heat, Housing, and Health+ team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2024 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis.

We are a research team studying the intersections of heat, housing and health. Little is known about the thermal conditions people experience in their homes or how the adverse and disproportionate impacts of home heat differ by race, age, gender, and housing type. As the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the United States, mobile and manufactured housing (MH) is an important housing type in which to study extreme heat, housing insecurity, and public health. Research on home thermal security (HTS) is crucial to inform climate adaptation, heat governance, and resilience planning, as well as affordable housing policy.

Cats Optimizing Recycling Education (CORE) is a new project that expands Housing’s efforts to better understand recycling behavior on campus and maximize educational interventions. Reporting to Housing’s Senior Coordinator of Sustainability Operations and Initiatives and collaborating with a Graduate Assistant, the Student Recycling Specialist will play a large role in carrying out this project and combatting the issue of recycling contamination in the dorms.