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Lactation Lab Research Assistant
This Research Assistant position is a voluntary (unpaid) position, although in some rare occasions it may be tied to course credit after discussion with the Lab Director (Dr. Jen Nickelson). There are expectations that the Research Assistant will participate in weekly meetings, give research and educational presentations to others in and outside the lab, and conduct supervised research outside of our weekly meetings. This is a great opportunity to gain research skills and learn more about breastfeeding and infant nutrition. You do not need to have any experience conducting research to apply for the position. You must apply ONLY at https://tinyurl.com/LacLab2026. Only applications submitted through https://tinyurl.com/LacLab2026 will ...
Preferred Majors
Women's Studies | Anthropology | Family Studies | Food and Nutrition | Human Development | Health Education and Promotion | Health Education | Public Health | Social & Cultural Studies | Health Education & Promotion | Child Development | DieteticsKeywords
Nutrition | Patient Education | health | breastfeeding | public health | infants | women's healthFaculty
Jen NickelsonHeterogeneous Catalysis: synthesis, characterization, and kinetics
Undergraduate researchers in the Harris Laboratory participate in research projects related to heterogeneous catalyst synthesis, characterization, and measurement of reaction kinetics. As much as possible, students will have their own independent research projects in addition to responsibilities related to multi-student research thrusts in production of renewable fuels, chemicals, and protection of air and water quality. Students are expected to commit to ten hours per week of research activity that will be guided by Dr. Harris and his graduate students. Students are also expected to commit to working in the lab for a minimum of two semesters. Students will prepare final reports summarizing their efforts, and present in our laboratory gr...
Preferred Majors
Chemistry | Chemical EngineeringKeywords
Synthesis | Catalysis | Chemistry | chemical engineering | spectroscopyFaculty
James Shogren-HarrisMapping Personal Finance Education: A Data Collection of High School Financial Education Course Standards in the United States
The Mapping Personal Finance Education project will involve data collection of school-level financial education course offering standards in US high schools for the 2026-2027 academic year. The data collection effort is intended to encourage further research documenting the implementation and effects of personal finance education. Financial education course offering standards will be collected from online course catalogs and matched to publicly available data on school characteristics. The project outcomes include constructing a dataset for the use of researchers, developing documentation explaining how to use the data and detailing the specifics of the dataset, and producing a summary of results of the data collection for dissemination, in...