Freshman Research Initiative
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| Founded | 2005 |
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| Focus | Education Through Research |
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Key people
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Dr. Erin Dolan, Executive Director |
| Website | https://cns.utexas.edu/fri |
The Freshman Research Initiative (FRI), developed at the University of Texas at Austin, is an innovative model in undergraduate education that offers hundreds of first-year students in the College of Natural Sciences the opportunity to advance academically while doing cutting-edge, authentic, publishable research in chemistry, biochemistry, nanotechnology, molecular biology, physics, astronomy and computer sciences.
The collaborative efforts of Sarah Simmons, David Laude, Ruth Shear, in addition to a group of faculty members at the College of Natural Sciences, led to the launch of FRI in 2005. The pilot program started with 45 students enrolled in three Research Streams; Vertebrate Interactome Mapping Stream, which was established by Scott Stevens, the Aptamer Stream led by Andy Ellington and The Nanomaterials for Chemical Catalysis Stream, which was established by Keith Stevenson, David Vanden Bout and Richard Crooks.
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