As a CS major interested in applications of CS in the healthcare field, DIY was the perfect fit for me. When I was choosing streams, I didn’t want to pick a stream that was purely CS but I also wanted to be able to use my CS knowledge. DIY was… read more
Student Experience
Fascinating and Relevant Projects
DIY Diagnostics is an awesome stream where you can work on fascinating and relevant projects that most people just don’t have the opportunity to do in their freshman year. I chose to do DIY Diagnostics because there were so many different areas to work in. In addition to the fact that… read more
Independent Research and a Friendly and Open Environment
I wanted to be involved at UT before entering college and through the school e-mails I was able to learn about FRI. At first I believed that one had to be a junior or senior in order to be involved in research, so when this opportunity came I immediately signed… read more
Future of Healthcare
As a transfer student and a senior, the prospect of a research assistantship was something I was still seeking out, but my opportunities were increasingly few. However, after taking a biochemistry course focused largely on understanding and researching scientific literature, I was determined to join a research team and begin… read more
You’ll Never Be Bored!
Computer science is not my forte- in fact, I would say it is my least favorite subject to study in any academic setting. Yet the most rewarding experience of my previous semester at DIY Diagnostics came about after laboring for 7 hours in lab slaving away at a 3D printer.… read more
The Best Stream (DIY Diagnostics)
Greetings fellow UT schoolmates, Firstly, I hope you are adjusting well to the Forty Acres, after all, the campus is freaking HUGE and there are always SO many people. Not only that, but congrats on being admitted to the FRI program here at UT as well! FRI provides undergraduates with… read more
Making People’s Lives Easier, Healthier, and Happier
Being part of the DIY Diagnostics stream has really been instrumental to my growth as not only a student but as well as a scientist here at UT. What drew me to this stream was the wide variety of projects that we work on during the spring semester, giving us… read more
Met my Interests of Computer Science and Medicine
I am in my second semester in the DIY Diagnostics stream in the Freshman Research Initiative. I chose this stream because I felt it focused on a unique area of research which met my interests of computer science and medicine. In fact, this really was the only stream which had… read more
Lots of Learning and Friends!
Hello FRI-ers! I know that coming to college and starting a whole new life style is stressful enough, but on top off that y’all also added research to the mix! Let’s just say I’m proud of you. However, now come the self-imposed questions, “Do I want to continue research?”, “Is… read more
DIY, High Schoolers, and EHS collaborating to protect Waller Creek.
For almost two years now the DIY Diagnostics Research Stream has been monitoring Waller Creek along campus in the lookout for bacterial hotspots and attempting to identify the sources of these. I had the opportunity of joining the DIY Diagnostics Stream in 2014 and have been one of the Waller… read more