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Here's to a successful Undergraduate Research Week 2024! From May 20-24, thousands of UCLA undergraduate students from all parts of campus presented their research with the UCLA community and participated in events, receive awards, and more. Research gives students experience and life skills crucial for any path after graduation. Join us in celebrating our creative, ambitious and talented students by making a gift today.

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UCLA Undergraduate Research Week

Undergraduate research week: may 22-26, 2017.

Undergraduate Research Week showcases and celebrates undergraduate research and creative projects across disciplines. Open to undergraduate students in all majors, the week provides opportunities for students to present their work to the UCLA campus community, alumni, and visitors. In the first three years of holding the event, participation has grown to over 800 student participants.

Events are scheduled throughout the week, and all are free and open to the campus and general public. We invite you to participate!

Monday, May 22, 2017 – Monday, May 26 , 2017 Various times and various Campus Locations

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On February 28, 2023 Undergraduate Research Center directors, Tama Hasson and Jacquelyn Ardam, invited current UCLA undergraduates, from every class level and field of study, to present their research or creative project at the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase during Undergraduate Research week 2023 . 

Students may give a livestreamed presentation on May 23 or submit a recorded presentation, creative exhibit, or multimedia project to be displayed on the website from May 22–26. For more information, visit the Showcase website .  Applications to present at the Showcase are due by April 17 .

Additionally, students are invited to apply for the Library Prize  due by March 29, the Dean’s Prize   due by April 20, and nominate their mentor for a Faculty Mentor Award  due by April 20.

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Location: Powell Library Inquiry Lab 3 (Room 330)/Zoom

Undergraduate Research Week is an annual, week-long celebration of undergraduate research and creative inquiry at UCLA. In 2024, students of all disciplines will gather on May 20 through 24 to share their innovative and impactful work with the UCLA community at events such as the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase. Attend this information session to learn how you can participate.

The information session will be held at Powell Library Inquiry Lab 3 (Room 330) or on Zoom at  https://bit.ly/urcworkshop .

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WHY DO RESEARCH OR CREATIVE INQUIRY?

Conducting research or creative inquiry as an undergraduate is an excellent way to gain experiences and skills that will benefit you both academically and professionally, preparing you for graduate school and a wide variety of careers.

Participating in undergraduate research and creative inquiry lets you:

• Work one-on-one with faculty,
• Participate in cutting-edge research and creative projects with far-reaching impacts,
• Make significant contributions to a field you care about, and
• Enhance your competitiveness for high-level employment and admission to graduate and professional schools.

Our primary mission is to promote, develop, and celebrate undergraduate student research and creative inquiry, with the overall goal of enhancing undergraduate education and preparing students for careers in all areas.

Through experiencing the processes of scholarly discovery and the dissemination of their results, students become fully engaged members of the research and creative community.

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FIND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES ON THE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PORTAL

You can find opportunities to do research in all disciplines through the Undergraduate Research Portal :

• Search for research opportunities both on and off campus
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Create an Online Research Profile

• Login to the Undergraduate Research Portal using your UCLA logon.
• On the upper right, under “Profiles,” select “Create/Update my Profile.”
• Enter the requested information.

Explore Available Research Opportunities

• Use the search bar to select opportunities based on your keywords. Through the drop-down menu, you can search by job description, division/department, position title, and all fields within the opportunities.
• On the right-hand side, you can filter the opportunities shown by Position Type, Research Area, Location, Duration, and Hours per Week.
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• Before you prepare any application materials, determine your eligibility, including requirements as to major, GPA, or other conditions of participation. Some opportunities are eligible for enrollment in a research course, such as a 99 or 199 course.
• Follow the specific application instructions for each opportunity. Be sure to include all requested documents. Often the application process entails sending an email with your curriculum vitae (CV) or resume attached. Click here for more information on contacting potential mentors.

Please visit the Undergraduate Research Portal for more information, or e-mail our helpdesk at  [email protected] .

Labor Studies Undergraduate Students Become Leaders in the Classroom

Through immersive simulations and interactive workshops, middle school and high school students in Los Angeles gain a deeper understanding of labor history, worker rights, and the power of unions.

Jazmin Rivera | August 12, 2024

On May 1st, a classroom of world history students at Portola Middle School in Tarzana, California, viewed pictures of workers using large machinery to produce steel in a mill in 1892 Homestead, Pennsylvania. The Young Worker Education Project director Nicolle Fefferman asked the students to consider what it must have felt like to work in that room—what smells, sounds and feelings were the workers experiencing?

As students discussed their answers with each other, UCLA undergraduates enrolled in the cross-listed Labor Studies course, 136M: “Working Families and Educational Inequalities in Urban Schools” walked around the classroom to support their small group discussions. This was the first day of a week-long simulation lesson on the Homestead Strike led by the Young Worker Education Project (YWEP). By the end of the week, students learned about monopolies, unions and the labor tensions of the Gilded Age.

The YWEP is a visiting educational curriculum that teaches LAUSD students about worker-led decision making by facilitating week-long role play scenarios inspired by historical events. Open-ended discussions, student-led conversations and collaborations with UCLA undergraduate volunteers and community members are hallmarks of the YWEP. 

Students come alive through these lessons. Quiet high school classrooms turn into a frenzy of passionate students itching for their moment to talk. Shy middle schoolers feel empowered to raise their hand and offer their insight, which is then met with encouragement from their peers. UCLA undergraduates, at first nervous to lead in the classroom, grow into their role as educators.

“I enjoyed being able to work with students one-on-one and get a feel for different teaching pedagogies and classroom environments,” said Marisol Mercado, a UCLA undergraduate. “I hope to use some of [the teacher’s] techniques in the future as I continue to explore my educational opportunities”

UCLA undergraduates also noted the value of having middle school students gain a deeper understanding of worker protections.

“I believe it is super important for these students to know labor history and laws regarding labor, as many of them will be going to high school and soon start working,” said Vikki Fierro, an Education and Social Transformation major.

Beyond classroom simulations with the YWEP, a group of UCLA students in LS136M conducted four online workshops with UCLA YouthSource , a center that offers programs for youth who reside in Los Angeles county between the ages of 14-24. Using a train-the-trainer method, UCLA students led a two-part know-your-worker-rights workshop that covered wage theft and how to read a paycheck. Every Wednesday afternoon in the month of May, YouthSource students gathered on Zoom to learn about their rights as workers, with the UCLA students facilitating the workshops drawing on their own experiences as young workers to teach the lessons. After the month was over, the workshops directly impacted nearly 50 students.

Students of LS136M ended the Spring quarter by brainstorming topics they would like to see covered in future workshops, such as “What is a union?” “How to balance school and work” and “How to take time off.” As workplace readiness curriculum is implemented statewide through AB 800 —legislation that requires all California public schools to teach their students about workplace readiness and labor rights—the next generation of workers will directly engage with these questions and many more, both in the classroom and beyond it.

UCLA Labor Studies is the first major of its kind at the University of California. Renowned for its commitment to engaged student learning in community worker settings, rigorous hands-on research and courses that explore some of the most pressing labor and social justice issues, the program became a major in 2019 after being established as a minor in 2014. 

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• UCLA Public Impact Research Awards spotlight professors uplifting communities in L.A., nation

Terence Keel and Nicholas Shapiro

August 13, 2024

Two Life Sciences professors in the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, Terence Keel  and Nicholas Shapiro , are among this year’s recipients of UCLA Public Impact Research Award.

Here is an excerpt, from today’s UCLA Newsroom article by Madeline Adamo, about the award and this year’s winners , that describes the impactful research of professors Keel and Shapiro.

T erence Keel, one of six recipients of UCLA’s 2024 Public Impact Research Awards, said his commitment to social justice and positive change remains unshakable even when progress might not come as quickly as he’d hope. That firm dedication to improving people’s lives and society through research characterizes of all this year’s honorees, whose projects range from protecting the incarcerated and those in police custody to free eviction defense tools for tenants and support for people with HIV and substance use issues.   

The annual awards, given by the UCLA Office of Research and Creative Activities, provide a platform to celebrate the efforts of faculty translating research into positive public action that benefits local, national and global communities. An awards ceremony will be scheduled for later in the year.

“One of UCLA’s highest priorities is to demonstrate to the community that our research and creative activities have a positive public impact,” said Roger Wakimoto, UCLA’s vice chancellor for research and creative activities. “Indeed, the Public Impact Awards are strongly aligned with both goals  one  and  three  in the  UCLA strategic plan. ”

This year’s honorees are:

Terence Keel  Professor, department of African American studies and UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics Founder, BioCritical Studies Lab at UCLA

Shocked by the murder of George Floyd and propelled by protests against police violence in 2020,  Terence Keel  shifted the focus of his research from religion, history, science and culture to investigating deaths of people in police custody and during police encounters. Working with academic colleagues and community partners, Keel zeroed in on how medical examiners and coroners process deaths in custody and why their findings tend to “naturalize” state violence by describing such deaths as a result of “preexisting conditions.”

Keel’s research group, the  BioCritical Studies Lab,  which has enlisted 40 UCLA undergraduate students, analyzes laws, policies and institutions around the country, as well as autopsies of those who have died in custody to understand this process of naturalization. The group also works closely with the families of people who have died as a result of police violence.

“Those impacted are moved by the fact that my lab takes them seriously and that we are helping them see the connections between their tragedy and that of others who have been failed by our criminal justice system,” Keel said.

Keel has been involved in drafting laws in California and Maryland, and is pursuing a lawsuit in Pennsylvania calling for increased public transparency and the release of records and independent investigations of deaths in custody in that state. He has also co-authored scholarly articles about deaths in Los Angeles County jails and the use of pepper spray by police. 

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Nicholas Shapiro Assistant professor, UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics Director, Carceral Ecologies Lab

Members of the Carceral Ecologies Lab

For more than a decade, UCLA medical anthropologist  Nicholas Shapiro  and his  Carceral Ecologies Lab  have had a unique public impact health justice and equity. Rooted in universal struggles for racial and environmental justice, the group has developed tools to provide people with the highest stakes in these issues, including those in carceral facilities, with vital research findings. These tools have run the gamut from timely white papers and documentaries to lawsuits aimed at greater government transparency.

“Many of today’s problems are a combination of insidious and overt,” Shapiro said. “Addressing them requires technical knowledge, understanding social context, being in conversation with those most impacted, as well as a little imagination.”

Shapiro’s recent research has revealed potentially  high levels of contamination in drinking water in U.S. prisons,  and he has pushed for new standards to  protect incarcerated people in California from extreme heat.  In addition, he has collaborated with leading artists to reconceptualize relationships between humans and their environments and with local groups in Los Angeles focused on environmental and racial justice — tying grassroots work in the community to high-impact stewardship of public discourse, including recently  federal legislation.

“It’s an honor to marshal the resources of a public research university with an incredible and diverse student body towards tackling these wicked problems,” said Shapiro, who is committed to recruiting formerly incarcerated and system-impacted students for the lab. “All too often, what is celebrated in academia is only the articles, books, awards and grants, but we think that the process of research is equally impactful.”

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Software Engineering Intern – Summer 2025 (Undergraduate)

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Careers That Change Lives

The possibilities at the intersection of medicine and technology are endless, which means endless opportunities to make your mark on the world. Our interns do real work within experienced engineering teams to improve lives of millions. Engineering roles in the Software engineering group can include Software, Software Cloud, Software Quality, Software Development Operations, Software Systems, Software Test, Hardware, and Firmware engineers, examples of work in each of these areas are listed below.

Software Engineer

• Designs, develops, tests, debugs and implements operating systems components, software tools and utilities.
• Determines systems software design requirements.

Software Cloud Engineer

• Supports development and execution of the organization’s cloud strategy from a technical perspective, including design, planning, integration, maintenance and support of cloud architecture.
• Works with stakeholders across the organization to evaluate cloud systems and identify appropriate solutions.

Software Quality Engineer

• Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains standards for software systems quality operating methods, processes, and procedures.
• Conducts evaluation of software systems activities including requirements, design, development, documentation, integration, test, verification and validation.

Software Development Operations Engineer

• Introduces and maintains processes, tools, and methodologies to balance needs throughout the software development life cycle.
• Conducting requirements gathering and analysis to understand the domain of the software problem and/or functionality, the interfaces between hardware and software, and the overall software characteristics.

Software Systems Engineer

• Develops software and tools in support of design, infrastructure, and technology platforms, including operating systems, cloud-based and Internet-related tools.
• Designs, develops, troubleshoots, and debugs software programs for enhancements and maximize new products.

Software Test Engineer

• Tests the functionality and performance of software applications or systems software.
• Develops and executes test plans and scripts designed to detect problems in software applications and systems software.

Hardware Engineer

• Conducts research, design, development, and testing of electrical or mechanical hardware such as computer chips, circuit boards, mechanical and electrical components.
• Ensures reliability, develops technical specifications for production, analyzes hardware configuration and processing solutions, and tests hardware conformance to specifications; may design new or modify existing products

Firmware Engineer

• Designs, develops, tests, documents, operates and maintains software and firmware components and computing systems software to be applied to and integrated with mechanical and electrical systems.
• Applies the appropriate standards, processes, procedures and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of such engineering applications and wide range of products.

AI/Data Science Engineer

• In new product design roles: develops and programs integrated software algorithms to structure, analyze and leverage data in product and systems applications in both structured and unstructured environments.
• Develops and communicates descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive insights/algorithm

You have learned a lot to get here — we want you to keep growing. With our expanding portfolio of innovative products and services, Medtronic is the global leader in delivering healthcare solutions for over 70+ disease states in 150+ countries.

Internships are full-time (40 hours/week), paid positions that are 11-12 weeks in length. We offer competitive pay, housing assistance with relocation expense reimbursement (for out-of-state interns), a transportation stipend, and educational and social events throughout the summer.

A majority of our internship positions are located at our primary location hubs of: Minnesota, California, Colorado and Northeastern US (Connecticut & Massachusetts). However, we have summer internship opportunities in other states as well like Arizona, Tennessee, Texas and Florida. Candidate location preference is strongly considered into account during the interview and offer process. Candidate flexibility in location allows candidates more position opportunities.

Applicants must be located in the US during the entirety of the internship.

Must Haves:

To be considered for a summer 2025 engineering internship, you must meet the following basic requirements. How you meet these criteria must be clearly indicated on your resume to be considered for a position.

• Working towards a Bachelor’s degree with an anticipated graduation date of Spring 2026, Winter 2026 or Spring 2027
• Working towards a degree in computer or software engineering, computer science or related engineering major
• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis and does not require sponsorship in the future for an employment visa
• Dates: June 2nd – August 15th * Exception to these dates are possible only for students enrolled at schools that follow the quarter system

Nice to Haves:

• A minimum 3.0 out of a 4.0 cumulative GPA
• Flexibility in geographic location
• Knowledge of one or more of the following technologies: C, C++, C#/.NET, SQL, JavaScript, Java, Swift, HTML/CSS, Microsoft Visual Studio, Jenkins, Gitlab
• Prior work on projects in a team environment
• Relevant academic project, internship, or lab experience
• Experience in statistics and data analysis and/or Design for Reliability and Manufacturability (DRM)
• Technical writing skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills who is self-motivated, proactive, and willing to learn

About Medtronic:

Together, as one of the largest Medical Device companies in the country, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations – but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future and engineer the extraordinary.

Candidates applying for Medtronic’s Summer Internship Program must have current work authorization and be legally authorized to work in the U.S. The Medtronic Summer Internship Program does not provide work authorization sponsorship for summer intern positions. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for the Medtronic Summer Internship Program.

Physical Job Requirements:

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers.