<p>Hey people.
I will be attending UT as a transfer student the next semester. </p>
<p>What is the best way to obtain a research position in a lab (preferably in the biochem. dept. b/c that is where I am majoring)??</p>
<p>I am interested in the cisternal maturation model or aspects of transcription of DNA.</p>
<p>bump… anyone has ideas? I have emailed a few profs in my dept, but no one responded.</p>
<p>You go to professors and ask if their labs have opening or if they know any labs have opening.</p>
<p>There are clubs that you can join on campus that would somewhat help you find research positions, but at the end, you just have to go talk to them. You might also able to work in a lab as work study, but I’m not exactly sure how that works.</p>
<p>The College of Natural Sciences has a web site devoted to undergraduate research. Here’s the Getting Started page.</p>
<p>[Getting</a> Started](<a href=“http://cns.utexas.edu/research/undergraduate-opportunities/getting-started]Getting”>http://cns.utexas.edu/research/undergraduate-opportunities/getting-started)</p>
<p>Thanks LukeC and spdf.</p>
<p>I have looked at research articles from Nature and then tried to write a research proposal that is similar in nature (no pun intended) to what the professor has in his or her research description. The process takes time for me and no results.</p>
<p>No professors has replied to any of my emails yet. very irritating.</p>
<p>The professors won’t reply to your e-mails. If they have had no prior personal contact with you, then your cold call e-mail is the equivalent of a telemarketer calling on behalf of an organization you never heard of.</p>
<p>Professors get a lot of undergraduate research interest from students they already know from their classes, and those are the ones who are going to get a reply.</p>