Illinois Undergraduate
Research Ambassadors
About IURA:
Illinois Undergraduate Research Ambassadors (IURAs) are a collaborative cohort of accomplished and experienced students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
IURAs help to promote undergraduate research at the U of I and help the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) develop and maintain student-focused programs that represent the U of I’s diverse array of disciplines. As representatives of OUR, IURAs will be responsible for promoting undergraduate research to peers by holding informational workshops on undergraduate research, serving as a liaison between OUR and academic departments, and being knowledgeable about the resources that the U of I offers its undergraduate students interested in research and creative inquiry.
Brianna Boynton
Major: Global Studies
Non-profits and the impacts of cultural diversity on business
Brianna will not be holding meetings for Fall 2019
Jason Chang
Major: Systems Engineering / Minor: Statistics
Operations research, supply chain/logistics and inventory
Tanesha Gauba
Major: English Literature and Psychology
Developing a database of movies being shown in Mumbai during the Cold War era
Allisa Hastie
Major: Civil & Environmental Engineering / Minor: Environmental Economics & Law
Quantifying water and energy flow through the urban environment
Alayna Johnson
Major: Chemistry / Minor: Materials Science & Engineering
Acid-degradable polymers for use as pharmaceutical capsules
Brenda Munguia
Major: Community Health
increasing healthy eating behaviors in Hispanic families through culturally sensitive workshops
Andrea Perry
Major: Materials Science & Engineering and Engineering Physics
porous silicon superlens for imaging biological structures