Part-Time Undergraduate Research Assistant

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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The Research Assistant/Associate performs a variety of specialized tasks associated with designing and conducting research projects/experiments; collects, correlates, analyzes, summarizes, and reports on data; recruits and schedules participants for studies; informs participants of research information in accordance with established protocols; maintains participant records; oversees and monitors laboratory research procedures and recordings to ensure quality control and compliance; trains users in equipment operation and research techniques; may oversee laboratory operations.

Duties may include:

• Assist in the development, design, and execution of research projects, under the general direction of senior research personnel and according to standard protocols or research plans; contribute to experiments/tests in the laboratory/field to test, prove, or modify theoretical propositions; collect, process, and present data
• Initiate or contribute to data analysis for use in technical reports, documents, proposals, or oral/written presentations
• Recruit and schedule subjects for study participation; describe the study, procedures, risks, benefits, and eligibility requirements
• Draft protocols, abstracts, and consent forms; coordinate abstraction of patient data from charts in compliance with protocols; assure the collection of subject data based on protocol
• Train users and other employees in equipment operation, research techniques, data recording functions; explain and demonstrate technology and equipment capabilities
• Oversee lab operations and schedule, maintain records and inventory 
• Provide support for a research project such as gathering, summarizing, interpreting, and disseminating information on laws, policies, industry standards, emerging trends in a field of study, etc.
• May contribute to proposal drafts to obtain grant funding 
• Serve as liaison with various research parties including Principal Investigators, research faculty, physicians, other University research offices and external research agencies

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