Undergraduate research assistant
User log ofc advisory te and undergraduate research ok of operating procedures te and undergraduate research assistantseffective february 25, 2013executive sponsor: executive vice president and provostpolicy owner: assistant dean of graduate studiespolicy tions (specific to this policy). Ntly asked is the policy of the university of texas at austin ("university") that individuals appointed as graduate or undergraduate research assistants at the university abide by the policies stated . Reason for provide responsibilities and procedures related to recruitment, appointment and duties of graduate and undergraduate research assistants' appointments and . Scope & policy applies to all individuals appointed as graduate and undergraduate research assistants at the . Responsibilities & te and undergraduate research te and undergraduate research assistants are students who, in the course of their academic training, are employed in part-time or temporary research positions, where the student's academic training is based in part on the research performed or where the research duties being performed will assist the student in fulfilling his or her degree requirements. All duties and services of graduate and undergraduate research assistants are to be carried out under the supervision and direction of faculty or te research assistants must be currently enrolled as a student as a condition of raduate research assistants must be currently enrolled (except as provided below for summer employment), in good academic standing, and must be making satisfactory progress toward their undergraduate degree. Full-time status (12 hours of enrollment) is required to hold an undergraduate research assistant position during long semesters. Failure to meet these requirements will be grounds for withdrawal of the appointment and termination of employment status in this te research assistants must be graduate students in good academic standing and making satisfactory progress toward an advanced degree. Graduate research assistant is expected to remain registered in courses that count toward the graduate degree for at least nine semester hours during the long session semesters of employment and three semester hours in any summer term when employed during the summer e to meet the enrollment requirements as set forth above, or any withdrawal or change of registration to a course load below the applicable enrollment minimum, which is not approved in advance by the vice provost and dean of graduate studies, will be grounds for withdrawal of a graduate student's service appointment and termination of employment status in this ion and applicants must receive equal consideration based on established qualification er possible, announcements of the availability during the next fiscal year of all research assistantships will be made early in the spring semester by the research director. Copies of the announcement will be made available upon request to any interested appropriate departmental or research center review of the applications received, formal offers of appointment should be made to selected tments of research assistants must be made on the basis of percent time employment and are normally made on a semester-by-semester title and rate of pay will be according to the student's level of academic attainment:Job code 0090 - graduate research assistant - a holder of a bachelor's degree, with or without prior research code 0095 - undergraduate research assistant - a student enrolled for an undergraduate degree established for the fiscal year, the base annual rate for graduate research assistants will remain the same for the term of the appointment, except that changes in rate of pay and stipend are permitted effective january 16; otherwise, changes in rate of pay and stipend will be approved only for september 1 of the following academic year tments for graduate research assistants may not exceed 20 hours per week during the first two long-session semesters of graduate study at the university and 30 hours per week during subsequent long-session les setting forth stipends to be paid to research assistants will be published annually, (under “student employee compensation found at: http:///hr/student/). Experienced research assistants and those who are conducting independent research or other special responsibilities should be appointed in the upper range of the appropriate salary scale. Use of state funds appropriated for resident instruction - faculty salaries is not authorized for such ment of research assistants in the summer ch assistants may be employed in the summer session, subject to the same policies, criteria, and qualifications as are applicable in the long session, except as provided below for the summer session, as during the rest of the academic year, holders of graduate research assistant appointments are expected to continue to make satisfactory progress toward completion of their degree programs and are also expected to be enrolled for three (3) credit hours during any term of the summer in the long semesters of the academic year, graduate students who are not enrolled during the summer are not eligible for academic research assistant te students employed in research related to their degree program are not eligible for employment under a classified employee title and must be appointed as graduate research raduate students. Student may work in an undergraduate research assistant position during the summer if that student either: (1) was enrolled in at least 12 credit hours during the entirety of the previous spring semester; or (2) is enrolled in at least 3 credit hours over the course of the summer raduate students who were enrolled full-time in the spring semester and who graduated at the end of the spring semester may work in an undergraduate research assistant title until august 31 of the year in which they of research principal duty of a research assistant is to contribute under supervision to a program of departmental or interdepartmental research. While graduate research assistants are committed to performing assigned services, their work is usually suitable for and may be used as part of their report, thesis, or dissertation research to the extent approved by the faculty ch assistants shall engage in research as assistants to members of the faculty or administration of the university. Appointment to one of these positions is usually made only in the student's own department or in another unit of the university where the research to be undertaken is related to the student's field of study. Appropriate service for an advanced research assistant may include the carrying out of independent research under the guidance of a faculty employment te and undergraduate research assistants are subject to the rules and regulations of the university of texas system board of regents, the university, the graduate school and/or the college/school and department in which they hold employment. In the performance of their duties they must abide by and adhere to the academic and instructional criteria and policies established by the department in which they render responsibilities, rights, and welfare of graduate student academic employees committee (a standing committee of the general faculty) serves in an advisory capacity for institutional policy and governance relating to the affairs of graduate and undergraduate research te research assistants, as student academic employees, are eligible:To participate in the university group insurance program in accordance with the current eligibility criteria for the program;. With all other student academic appointments, graduate and undergraduate research assistant appointments do not provide for accrued vacation or sick leave entitlements or teacher retirement system membership. Department or research center may reappoint a research assistant if it is determined that reappointment is to the benefit of the institution. Research assistant may be considered for reappointment if he or she:Has provided satisfactory prior service and,Is in good academic standing and making satisfactory progress toward their degree. Each graduate studies committee shall set forth general guidelines describing what constitutes satisfactory progress in its various fields of graduate graduate student shall be eligible for employment as a graduate research assistant for more than fourteen (14) long-session academic semesters. The total combined period of service of a graduate research assistant, teaching assistant, academic assistant, assistant (graduate), or assistant instructor shall not exceed fourteen (14) long-session academic sal and termination of appointment and procedure for ch assistant appointments are usually terminated only at the end of a designated period of appointment. Appointments may also be terminated at any time for nonacademic reasons, such as for failure to perform the required duties of the effort should be made to resolve grievances informally between the research assistant and the employing faculty member. When serious issues cannot be resolved informally, the research assistant shall have recourse to the grievance procedure outlined below in sections 3 and ment disputes by research assistants are handled according to departmental review policies by the department employing the research assistant. The order of review for employment disputes is as follows:The faculty member employing the research assistant;. Dean of the college or school employing the research decision of the college or school dean is t employee 5-4020 - university time . Research assistant is a researcher employed, often on a temporary contract,[1] by a university or a research institute, for the purpose of assisting in academic research. Research assistants are not independent and not directly responsible for the outcome of the research and are responsible to a supervisor or principal investigator. Research assistants are often educated to degree level[2] and might be enrolled in a postgraduate degree program and simultaneously teach. A research assistant is normally appointed at graduate level, undergraduates are also sometimes appointed to support rly, someone who has recently been awarded a doctoral degree may hold a temporary appointment as a postdoctoral research al research assistant[edit]. Clinical research assistant is employed by a hospital or medical research centre, who is involved in the administration of clinical trials. He or she may assist a senior investigator with recruiting and enrolling research subjects, as well as with correspondence and grant applications. A non-profit estern starteddevelop your interestsfind a labdevelop a projectlibrary resourcesworking with facultyfind an opportunityadvisingadvising at ourcalendar of eventsproposal writinginformational videossample grant proposalsgrants & programsacademic year research grantsacademic year urg advancedsummer research grantsresearch assistant program (urap)summer urg advancedlanguage grantscircumnavigator grantconference travel grantsundergraduate research & arts expoarts, humanities, and social sciences workshopbeckman scholars programresearch peer mentorsfinding a lab workshopscience research workshoppresent your researchundergraduate research & arts expoconference travel grantschicago area symposiumnu journaltedx northwesterncreative arts festivalblogsaboutmissionpeoplecontact undergraduate research assistant program pairs inexperienced students with faculty who are in need of assistance on their own research projects. In doing so, students who do not have sufficient research experience to design and carry out their own urg project gain first-hand mentored knowledge of research practices in their discipline, while faculty who would not otherwise be able to hire research assistants (ras) get help with their own projects. Faculty can apply with a particular student(s) in mind, or the office of undergraduate research can assist in finding a student for them by running a program has three funding priorities:1) to help students from any discipline who have no prior research experiences and are not yet ready to do independent research to get training and mentoring in the research methods of their chosen discipline.
To support opportunities in the arts, humanities, journalism, and non-laboratory based social sciences where funding for research experiences is uncommon. Students looking for a research assistant position should reach out to faculty they’d like to work with well ahead of the deadline. If you would like help figuring out how to find and contact faculty, you are encouraged to come talk with an hiring (for student applicants):Faculty who have been awarded urap funds but are still looking for a student ra will list advertisements on this webpage; to receive notification of when advertisements have been placed, sign up for the undergraduate research weekly blast. If students choose to evenly space out the hours (and are given the maximum award), this comes to ~25 - 35 hours a week, pending how many weeks of summer they y may also apply for supplemental research funding of up to $250 for each project. You are a faculty or teaching postdoc interested in applying, click you are a student interested in being a research assistant, click you are a faculty or teaching postdoc who received the award, click you are a student who was hired as a research assistant, click ne: next proposal submission deadlines (for faculty only):2017-18 academic year urap deadline: october 15, 2017. Summer urap deadline: april 22, hiring (for student applicants):Faculty who have been awarded urap funds but are still looking for a student ra will list advertisements on this webpage; to receive notification of when advertisements have been placed, sign up for the undergraduate research weekly blast. Summer urap: mid-may g to faculty - grant man, episode raduate research assistant i get help with my application package? Presenting your part of the research at the undergraduate research and arts you'd like to consider doing an independent project, learn about:Academic year undergraduate research undergraduate research for global and research estern starteddevelop your interestsfind a labdevelop a projectlibrary resourcesworking with facultyfind an opportunityadvisingadvising at ourcalendar of eventsproposal writinginformational videossample grant proposalsgrants & programsacademic year research grantsacademic year urg advancedsummer research grantsresearch assistant program (urap)summer urg advancedlanguage grantscircumnavigator grantconference travel grantsundergraduate research & arts expoarts, humanities, and social sciences workshopbeckman scholars programresearch peer mentorsfinding a lab workshopscience research workshoppresent your researchundergraduate research & arts expoconference travel grantschicago area symposiumnu journaltedx northwesterncreative arts festivalblogsaboutmissionpeoplecontact for open undergraduate research assistant positions!! Faculty members are expected to make decisions by december 1st, and students will need to turn in their payroll paperwork to the office of undergraduate research before leaving for winter undergraduate research assistant program pairs inexperienced students with faculty who are in need of assistance on their own research projects. In doing so, students who do not have sufficient research experience to design and carry out their own urg project gain first-hand mentored knowledge of research practices in their discipline, while faculty who would not otherwise be able to hire research assistants (ras) get help with their own uraps pay $15 per hour. On the “office of undergraduate research” department to view active down to find the position you are interested in. Project title: media descriptions of y name: tabitha and department: institute for policy research & political science. Project title: social determinants of maternal/child health outcomes during pregnancies with y name: lynn and department: obstetrics and gynecology, t descriptions:1) project title: politics of youth in y name: ayca and department: sociology, buffet institute for global y bio: i am the associate director of the keyman modern turkish studies program, research assistant professor in sociology and lecturer in sociology and mena. In particular, the research will focus on the political, legal and social transformation of turkey by looking at the changing opportunities and constraints of young ption of the ra position: the ra will be mainly responsible for helping with data collection, which involves collecting news articles and op-ed pieces in online newspaper archives and other online on expectations: dutiful, well-organized, detail-oriented, and laborious student to carry out an extensive survey of newspapers of multiple requirements: 8-10 hours per week. The project will be completed in 3 ant prerequisites: knowledge of turkish language (reading skills), interest in turkey, politics and social change, enthusiasm for archival-based social science research. Project title: media descriptions of y name: tabitha and department: institute for policy research & political y bio: i received a bachelor’s of science from mit in biology and political science in 2007. I then received a masters and doctorate of philosophy from stanford university in 2014, and then spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher and teaching fellow and the university of southern california. My research focuses on understanding how messaging affects voter perceptions of candidates and public policy. In particular, i research how promises on policy statements polarize the electorate, and alter support of (or opposition to) candidates. Research has tended to focus on documenting trends in inequality, examining public opinion and media coverage of inequality, or gauging inequality in representation. Project title: valuation in the global art y name: larissa and department: communication studies, school of y bio: i am an assistant professor in the department of communication studies. My research engages with the dynamics of cultural production and markets in an increasingly globally interdependent and interconnected world. The students will be able to take part in all stages of a smaller qualitative research (sub)project: 1) they will help in finishing the sampling of the discourse materials and will thereby learn about what sampling is and why it is important for research (ca. Regarding mid-terms or final ant prerequisites: the applicant's prerequisites are most of all enthusiasm for learning about research, attention to detail and punctuality. The student focused on development will take notes during meetings and transcribe prior meetings, giving them insight into how research can inform tv development and vice versa. The student focused on data/marketing will collect and organize quantitative social media data gleaned from five platforms; student may also assist a graduate student in auditing platforms for their research utility. Students who participated in the first cycle attest the experience provides rare insight to research and development in television as well as professional experience useful for jobs and exposure to diverse voices (queer, trans, women, people of color) necessary for entry into an increasingly diverse hollywood job on expectations: this project is hands-on, giving students the opportunity to shape creative projects and get recognition for their efforts. As this is an experiment in creative production, students will work as assistants to researchers and professionals, allowing them to be exposed to a diverse range of arts and production practices and offering them a plethora of professional experience in a short period of time. We then trained 126 caregivers to deliver the exercise program with their client during usual care visits 2 times per week for 6 ption of the ra position: in this research project, the student will be responsible for downloading exercise data from our mobile app. In consultation with the research team, we will develop inclusion/exclusion criteria to determine what constitutes an exercise session. This will allow me to accomplish our research plan in a more timely fashion and will provide data that we can use for upcoming grant on expectations: the student will not be working with human subjects, but will be required to complete citi training and irb approval. Danilovich (faculty primary investigator) and laura diaz, primary research coordinator in the software processing and analysis. Danilovich will provide information on the study, research methods, and clinical trial process to provide the student a background and context on the scientific requirements: there is a great deal of flexibility in the work schedule for this project since this is a secondary data analysis project. Her research is located at the intersection of climate science and global anglophone literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries. Sarah’s articles are forthcoming in mosaic and isle: interdisciplinary studies in literature and the environment, and her discussion of the challenges of animating climatic research for a public audience can be found in the environmental humanities journal edge effects.
Integrating literary research in digital maps, interactive timelines, and photographic showcases, this project will create a richly layered analysis of contemporary global environmental literature. In the past few years, both the digital humanities and the environmental humanities have emerged as particularly vibrant areas of scholarly inquiry, and this project will allow an undergraduate researcher to develop an unusual degree of fluency in digital narration and representation. The undergraduate researcher and i will work together to represent this diverse body of content online using new tools from the digital humanities. I expect that we will work together closely on our first digital projects and then, as the undergraduate researcher gains familiarity with the tools and methodologies of the digital humanities, he or she can take on a greater degree of authority in deciding how to best visualize or communicate the content through digital media. We will continue to meet regularly as the year progresses, but my hope is that the undergraduate researcher will independently design digital projects by the end of the on expectations:Regular tasks will include:1. Additional tasks will depend on the student researcher's interests and the skills he or she hopes to requirements: 2-5 hours per week, depending on work flow. However, applicants who expect to conduct future research in the environmental humanities or employ digital methodologies in future research projects—whether in literature, history, sociology, anthropology, or other fields—will be given special consideration. Project title: russian studies & comparative y name: jordan and department: political science, weinberg college of arts and y bio: i conduct research on corruption, the rule of law, property rights, and political and economic transitions, with a primary focus on the former soviet union. My research often involves the interplay of russian/eurasian studies and political science, which is at the heart of the current urap t synopsis: two and a half decades after the fall of the soviet union, to what extent has russian studies been integrated into the broader field of comparative politics? To encourage independence as researchers, students will be given general research goals and asked to contribute suggestions as to how these goals can be achieved. Of the ra position: the research assistant (ra) will actively engage in a range of research learning experiences including reviewing academic literature, participant recruitment, data collection, observational coding of emotional behavior, psychophysiological assessment, and data analysis. Specifically, the ra will be working with other undergraduate and graduate students on the emotions in couples study, along with learning about other ongoing studies in the lab. Student must be able to continue to conduct research with us during the academic year 2018/ requirements: 7 hours per week during winter and spring quarter ant prerequisites: we are particularly interested in freshmen and sophomores who are bright, dedicated, reliable, and interested in the study of emotion, psychophysiology, relationships, and developmental psychology. Hoffman is a linguistic, legal, and sociocultural anthropologist who conducts qualitative research (participant observation, interviews, and discourse analysis) as well as historical archival analysis. Her research explores this nexus primarily in north africa and france from the late 19th c. She has published two books, the ethnography we share walls: language, land and gender in berber in the maghrib (indiana 2010) and is drafting another, mirror of the soul: language, islam, and law in french native policy of morocco (1912‐1956), in addition to scholarly articles and research reports on customary, state and islamic law in morocco, and on song and talk among moroccan imazighen. Hoffman’s first research project based in france and grounded primarily in interviews and discourse analysis of official legal, administrative, and political texts concerning transnational families created through fostering and t synopsis: the research project regimes of care examines the challenges involved in transposing an institution inspired by islamic law regimes of care from the north african states where it originates into european and north american states. Adoption and guardianship arrangements permitted by law vary even within western legal systems, and more specifically to my project, within the european union, despite article 8 of the european convention on human rights (echr) that ensures respect for family life and privacy for all european families, a concept its case law is gradually ption of the ra position: the student will contribute to a research project on transnational families formed through kafala (islamic guardianship) and living in europe or north america, especially france and the united states. The student researcher should be interested in – but not necessarily have research experience in -- some combination of the following: human rights law, child law, adoption law, islamic law, north africa, europe, or kinship. Depending on the student researcher‘s interests and language skills, there are several ways to contribute to this project. The research will be mostly conducted individually and is largely qualitative, although there are some components for which familiarity with statistics wouldn be the student has french reading skills, s/he will assist in researching legal decisions concerning kafala (islamic guardianship) in france and belgium over the last twenty years. In addition, with french reading skills, the student will be able to regularly check the kafala support boards associated with the two main associations for kafil parents in france to monitor concerns and the student has advanced arabic reading skills, it may be possible to do research on legal provisions around filiation in morocco and algeria, again primarily internet the student instead has primarily english skills and a strong interest in human rights, child law, international courts, law, etc. To research this part of the project, the student will transcribe available video lectures which will be most comprehensive if the student knows some arabic and/or has familiarity with islamic sources. If s/he does not, we will work through them together and seek outside training through the reference librarians and secondary source materials as on expectations: regardless of the skills profile of the student regimes of care researcher, there will be an evolution of tasks through the course of the year dependent on research findings that will call for further analysis or alternative approaches. Bi-weekly meetings between mentor and student researcher will allow for guided training, discussion of findings, and steps requirements: applicants may apply to work either half time (5 hrs/week) or full time (10 hrs/week) depending on their schedules. One or two student researchers may be hired, with a strong preference for one researcher. Project title: pieces of planets in the asteroid y name: seth and department: earth and planetary sciences, weinberg college of arts and y bio: i am a tenure-track assistant professor in the earth and planetary science department of weinberg college of arts and t synopsis: my research program focuses on understanding the history of solar system bodies like planets, moons, asteroids, and comets. Tasks found to be unworkable or too difficult will be broken down by the student and myself into more feasible requirements: the expectation for the student will be 5-10 hours per week with the understanding that classwork may occasionally interfere with time set aside for research. Project title: the international politics of y name: morgan and department: buffett institute for global y bio: morgan kaplan is a postdoctoral fellow at the buffett institute for global studies at northwestern university, and was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at the belfer center for science and international affairs at harvard university and a predoctoral fellow at the center for international security and cooperation at stanford university. Kaplan’s research examines the international politics of rebellion with a focus on how opposition groups use diplomacy to solicit third-party support. In political science from the university of t synopsis: student researchers will become integral to the preparation of my book manuscript for publication by assisting me in the construction of new case studies that apply my theory of insurgent diplomatic strategy to conflicts around the world. My book manuscript includes qualitative research on insurgency in iraqi kurdistan and palestine, however, the book manuscript will include a new, additional chapter to test my theoretical argument against three cases outside of the middle east, or within the middle east but prior to world war ii. The primary role of student researchers is to help in the construction of this new chapter. Other tasks may include researching and identifying new data sources, literatures, and archives, as well as fact-checking and minor editorial work for the book project and related projects on rebellion and civil ption of the ra position: student researchers will become integral to the preparation of my book manuscript for publication by assisting me in the construction of new case studies that apply my theory of insurgent diplomatic strategy to conflicts around the world. In consultation with myself, the student will select a conflict of their interest - to ensure maximum educational benefit from the research - and then do as much reading and research on that case as possible to produce a report that i can use to begin the process of constructing a case study based on their preliminary work.
Furthermore, other tasks may include researching and identifying new data sources, literatures, and archives, as well as fact-checking and minor editorial work for the book project and related projects on rebellion and civil on expectations: training will be paid and take place at a pace that is appropriate for the student. I will also provide readings for the student that will touch on research methods and best research practices. By the end of the research assistantship, students should feel confident in their ability to conduct their own qualitative case study on another case of their choosing, or to continue that case study for their own research requirements: time frame for this project will be between 6-12 weeks. Total number of research hours will be determined by the number of ra’s hired (1-2 students). Students are expected to work between 5-12 hours each ant prerequisites: i plan to hire one or two undergraduate students from the weinberg college of arts and sciences who have limited or no prior independent research experience to ensure they are gaining the maximum educational benefit from the research assistantship. Students will primarily be evaluated by their interest in conducting new research, eagerness to learn about rebellion and civil wars, and willingness to hone new research skills. Project title: effects of upper limb loss on y name: matthew and department: physical medicine & rehabilitation, feinberg school of y bio: i am an assistant professor in the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation and a member of the northwestern university prosthetics-orthotics center. My research focuses on exploring the mechanisms that underlie postural control and locomotor performance of individuals with neuromuscular and musculoskeletal pathology who use assistive devices such as prostheses and orthoses. My passion for rehabilitation research stems from a desire and ability to directly observe the positive effects of my work on the quality of life of individuals with t synopsis: the goal of this research project is to understand how upper limb loss affects an individual's postural control to identify if there are therapeutic or device interventions to help improve their balance and ption of the ra position: the research assistant will contribute to the processing, analysis, and interpretation of biomechanical data collected previously on 10 research participants with upper limb loss. These activities will be completed using custom code in matlab software and the assistant should have some experience with this software through prerequisite coursework. Working closely with me, the assistant will be instrumental in helping understand these data and preparing them for both scientific/clinical conference presentations and manuscripts. Ultimately, this analysis will provide strong preliminary data for future grant proposals to continue this line of work and generate more opportunities for future student research assistants. To enrich the learning experience, the assistant will participate in weekly laboratory meetings and either present updates on their work to the research group or discuss a journal paper relevant to their research project. The assistant will also have the option of attending relevant bimonthly seminars hosted by the departments of physical therapy & human movement sciences and physical medicine & rehabilitation, and the shirley ryan abilitylab (formerly rehabilitation institute of chicago). Expectations: the assistant is expected to meet with me at least once per week (more if desired) to review their progress, discuss goals, and receive feedback. The assistant will be encouraged to communicate obstacles faced during any part of the research activities, and will work with me to identify and execute solutions that fit their learning style. Through this mentoring process and by participating in this research project, the assistant will develop their analytical skills, technical communication, and troubleshooting ability, as well as an appreciation for and understanding of the research process. Students will be commuting to northwestern’s chicago requirements: the assistant will be expected to dedicate an average of 8 hours per week over the academic year at 9 weeks per quarter. Prerequisites: priority will be given to students without previous research experience, but have some experience with matlab software coding and have an interest in rehabilitation engineering. Kaneesha's research has been supported by the mellon mays undergraduate fellowship, the social science research council, and the american council of learned societies and her writing is published in american quarterly and the volume indo-caribbean feminist t synopsis: what do the relations between african and asian populations in colonial and postcolonial contexts look like? This research project is an introduction to archival research, and to critical approaches to the archive, through the lenses of race, colonialism and postcolonialism, and gender and sexuality. Through archival research in northwestern-based archives and interpretation of research conducted at external archives, the student will examine race relations between africans and asians in locations throughout the african and asian ption of the ra position: the student will conduct archival research at the melville j. Herskovits library of african studies and assist me with interpretation of previous archival research at the national archives united kingdom in order to examine race relations between africans and asians in locations such as the british west indies, dutch west indies, east africa, and south africa. In addition to providing foundational research experience, the student's work will also help me as i revise my dissertation on race and informal housing in the british west indies into a book, and begin my second project on nutrition in the british empire. To this end, i will direct them to archival resources and to appropriate secondary readings in relevant on expectations: the student will spend approximately half the time conducting archival research in the melville j. The student will be intimately involved in the research and creative construction of the on expectations: available for one or two students. It may be possible with the right candidate for this position to evolve into an assistant director position during the production of the film (summer 2018). Project title: processing fake y name: david and department: learning sciences and psychology, school of education and social y bio: i have been conducting work on people's processing of fake news for the last 5 years, and including undergraduates in this work has been rewarding, and easily connects to their interests and t synopsis: this project will examine the consequences of presenting participants in a lab experiment with inaccurate information. The student will also attend lab meetings and work closely with me and graduate student on expectations: the student will be involved in running participants through lab protocols, collecting and organizing data, collating materials, transcribing data from surveys, interviews, and think-aloud protocols, and other related activities to support the research projects in the lab. The expectation is that all assigned activities and tasks will be completed in a timely requirements: the position will include 5-10 hours per week of work, depending on the workload and activities to be completed in the ant prerequisites: it is preferred, but not required, that the student has taken a research methods course. Y name: michael rodríguez-muñ and department: sociology, weinberg college of arts and y bio: i am an assistant professor in the department of sociology and the latina and latino studies program. My research has been published in the american journal of sociology, american journal of cultural sociology, ethnography, qualitative sociology, and engaging science, technology & t synopsis: i am currently completing a book manuscript on contemporary national latino civil rights advocacy and the politics of demography. Ption of the ra position: this position seeks ras to assist with data collection and preliminary analysis for a sociological research project. A major research task will involve collecting and reviewing data from online sources, such as governmental archives, organization websites, news outlets, and social media. This work will contribute to at least two major chapters of the book on expectations: the ras will gain an understanding of sociological research, from the generation of questions to the collection and analysis of data.
Substantively, the position will provide assistants with a deeper and empirically informed understanding of latino civil rights, past and present, and emergent politics over ethnoracial demographic requirements: the timeframe of the position is the 2018 winter quarter. Students that meet these criteria and have a professed interest in some of the substantive themes of this research (media representation, latino politics, race/ethnicity, demography) will be prioritized. Project title: developing coatings similar to natural surfaces: using photopolymerizations to engineer biomimetic y name: caroline and department: chemical & biological engineering, mccormick school of y bio: i am an assistant research professor in the chemical & biological engineering department of mccormick. My research is focused on the design of polymeric materials for applications ranging from biological materials such as dental restoratives to coatings that can be employed for water harvesting applications. My research is motivated by questions such as: how do we design increasingly complex materials while employing strategies that are energy efficient? The researcher on this project, with the guidance of the faculty mentors, will design photopolymerized coatings based on methods previously described in literature, employing techniques to vary the degree of and also patterning of covalent linkage between the polymer and substrate. They will evaluate the difference in coating character (roughness, surface morphology, hydrophobicity) as a function of substrate modification, and use it to better understand the driving forces at play during the formation of surface features via ption of the ra position: the student will be invited to attend weekly research group meetings (and will have the opportunity to present their work at such a meeting one time per quarter to get valuable feedback from graduate students, myself, and tenure track faculty). If a task cannot be completed, the next meeting should include discussion as to what was limiting that task so we can troubleshoot issues within the research project. Prior to gaining access to the laboratory, the student will be required to prove completion of relevant safety courses provided by the northwestern office of research safety (ors). Blocks less than one hour are not suitable for this project, especially at the start of the research, as most training will take more than one hour to complete. Project title: plant adaptation to climate change: a case study with pitcher’s thistle, a great lakes dune y name: patricia and department: plant biology and conservation, y bio: my research is focused on the reproductive ecology and population viability of rare and threatened plant species. Wang's research is focused on developing complex neuroimaging biomarkers through computational pipeline development, clinical application, preclinical animal model studies, and neuroinformatics. If timing works out, the student ra will be expected to attend and present research progress during weekly lab on expectations: students are required to make presentation of their projects during weekly lab meetings, as well as participate in journal clubs. His research focuses on human-centric artificial intelligence, and much of his recent work has been in designing social agents to assist people in a variety of tasks. He has also been an artificial intelligence researcher for barnstorm research, parc, and bae systems, where he learned to apply practical software engineering skills required in industry to large-scale ai research t synopsis: the project involves the evaluation of a “hint engine” and consists of developing a platform for the evaluation, conducting a user evaluation, and reporting the results of the evaluation. The applicant is expected to have no research experience and will be trained in all necessary research procedures. She provides clinical care in maternal-fetal medicine and is currently in the nichd women’s reproductive health research (wrhr) career development program at northwestern. She has training in maternal health, behavioral health, research design and epidemiology through completion of an mph. Her work addresses multiple areas of obstetrics-centered patient-centered outcomes research, with a particular interest in the intersections between health services, health disparities, and health behavior/patient education. She is pursuing clinical research in several areas, including diabetes during pregnancy, health literacy, health disparities, health behavior and decision making, patient navigation, perinatal hiv, and obesity/weight gain. Yee is a clinical researcher focused on patient-centered research regarding health disparities and diabetes during pregnancy. Students of any year are eligible, however students must demonstrate a commitment to learning the tasks required for clinical research and should expect projects to take the full academic year. Prior experience with clinical data, patient-based clinical research, or other aspects of clinical research are beneficial but not competitive is it to get a urap position? If you are not selected, do not be disheartened, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved in research! Make an advising appointment with the office of undergraduate research to learn how to find a research mentor that matches your interests, or write a proposal to fund summer do i know if i am work-study eligible? Is designed to help students get introduced to research, so it is not expected that you have previous research skills. However, faculty may ask that you have previously taken a particular course, or have demonstrated interest in a given if i have previous research experience? Program is designed to help students get started in research, so if you have previous research experience in the same field, you are probably a better candidate for an academic year grant or summer grant which supports independent research. Please make an advising appointment with the office of undergraduate research to talk about how to get independent funding! Academic year urap positions: if you are a senior, it would strengthen your cover letter to articulate why this research experience would be beneficial to your future career goals or ambitions. You are not ineligible, but keep in mind that one of the funding goals of this program is to help students get research experience so they can ultimately transition into an independent research experience. For summer urap positions: graduating seniors are not eligible to apply for summer i have to continue working with the faculty mentor if i decide to pursue independent research? If you have a desire to explore research in other fields, or design a new project that builds on the skills you acquired during a urap but is a better fit with another faculty mentor, that is absolutely fine! We are here to help you find the best ways to get involved in undergraduate research! 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