Jacob: Someone asked me about this and I remember it was confusing the first time I did it. This is the entire process for reference.
Email the professor (optional): It's best to ask the professor if they would approve of you taking the class first, tell them your relevant coursework and grades and anything else you have done to prepare.
Submit the form: Fill out the request form on the math website. When you submit it, the form gets sent to the professor of the class.
We are excited to announce this semester’s math club reading groups! Reading groups are like weekly math book -clubs where undergrads can learn topics which may not be covered in their studies. Come check them out on the Reading Groups Discord server
The Stream Metabolism branch of the FRI Urban Ecosystems research stream has been conducting research on the metabolic processes that drive energy exchange in Waller Creek. In addition, our team also has the goal of understanding the impact of a water restoration facility in the middle of Waller Creek. Dataloggers that record Dissolved Oxygen (DO), light penetration, pressure, and temperature have been placed at 4 sites along Waller Creek. Two of the loggers in Waller Creek have been
Ultimately, the purpose of the Urban Ecosystems Research Stream is to study and understand the effects of restoration and urbanization on Waller Creek. Understanding how humans affect our surroundings on a small scale (the creek) can help us create a more comprehensive picture of how our species affects the environment as a whole. I could write about how this entails analyzing numerous amounts of complex data
The Chemistry Team in the Urban Ecosystems stream have been conducting “canned” experiments. These experiments have procedures that already written out for students to follow, and are designed to help us become familiar with the instruments that we will use later for our independent research. My team conducted two canned experiments. One of these was designed to find the amount of caffeine in two different samples of coffee using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. It was important for us to become familiar with this instrument so that we can use it to determine the amount of
Pesticides were introduced as a way to combat insects or other organisms that harmed cultivated plants or animals. They were intended to make life for humans simpler, nonetheless, the overuse of these products has led to dangerous consequences that threaten the careful balance of nature. Glyphosate is a major ingredient in Monsanto’s popular pesticide, Roundup. As is the case for all other pesticides, it is possible for glyphosate to be transported in stormwater runoff, contaminating nearby bodies of water. My research plan is to study the glyphosate
Three weeks ago, on January 31st, students from the Urban Ecosystem stream in UT’s Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) met at their lab at 9AM and proceeded to collect water samples from Waller Creek at sites around Austin. These students belonged to two research teams within the stream: Naturalized E.Coli, and Molecular Source Tracking & Fecal Indicator Bacteria (MSTFIB). We sought to establish a baseline bacterial level for the creek, or in other words, figure out what the average bacterial levels were for the 12 sites we sampled. Some of our sites were north of campus (Hancock
