The Wonder Studio at Biosphere 2 is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2026 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. This team blends animation, film, and data visualization to transform scientific research into powerful visual stories that captivate and educate. The Wonder Studio functions as a creative lab where science meets imagination, giving students hands-on experience in creative science communication. Students will collaborate on projects that translate complex scientific ideas into accessible …

The Agrivoltaics team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2026 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 …

The iVoices and Immersive Truth team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2026 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. At iVoices and Immersive Truth Media Lab, we produce, teach, and learn from students’ stories about technologies in their lives, through teaching, media production, research, and scholarship. Our main focus areas and research questions include… How tech experiences shape learning engagement. How do undergraduate students’ experiences with technologies shape their engagement in …

Investigating the Foodborne Parasite Cyclospora in Environmental Waters is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2026 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case by case basis. This project’s goal is to better understand the prevalence, transmission, and epidemiological traceback investigation of Cyclospora cayetanensis, a human foodborne and waterborne protozoan parasite that causes cyclosporiasis. Cyclospora cayetanensis is a coccidian protozoan parasite causing cyclosporiasis, a diarrheal disease worldwide, associated with the consumption of fresh produce or …

The Precision Aging Network team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2026 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. Training in designing, implementing, and evaluating innovative and effective strategies for community engagement, recruitment, and retention is critical for increasing students’ capacity in working with community for research. Students will learn about how to use social media and evidence-based community engagement strategies for research, and they will observe how to monitor and evaluate …

The Printable Photovoltaics team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2026 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. The goal of this VIP is to develop scalable approaches to fabricate highly efficient and environmentally stable printable photovoltaic devices based on metal halide perovskites (or simply, perovskites). Perovskites are materials with performance characteristics comparable to silicon, but at a much lower weight and cost; as such, perovskite-based technologies have the potential to disrupt …

The Redox Flow Batteries team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2026 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. After so many decades of intensive use of coal and oil as major sources of energy, humanity must now face the pollution and global warming problems that they have induced. Massively embracing solar, wind, and tidal renewable energy for electricity production is a relevant response to the global energy needs. However, due to …

The Tree-Rings, Forests, and the Climate Crisis team is looking to enroll students for course credit in the Spring 2026 semester. Paid opportunities may be available on a case-by-case basis. In this VIP, we aim to better quantify and predict the feedback between forests and climate. Forests are affected by climate variability and change. At the same time, forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle and have been slowing global warming by removing the greenhouse gas carbon …

Biosphere 2 is the world’s largest laboratory experiment in the interdisciplinary Earth sciences with the Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO) experiment being the flagship of the experimental facility. Understanding the process interactions and feedback among water, porous geological media, microbes, and vascular plants, is crucial for improving predictions of the response of Earth’s critical zone to future climatic conditions. We are seeking an undergraduate individual for the role of Engineering student worker through the VIP program. This position will supplement the …