Graduate assistant vs doctoral student

Differences between graduate assistant and doctoral student duties and responsibilities

Graduate assistant example responsibilities.

• Lead a number of introductory and advance philosophy lecture courses under close faculty supervision.
• Manage graduate program twitter handle @ comugrad and assist in developing and implementing engagement strategies.
• Develop and manage syllabus material; evaluate students' performance relative to standardize learning objectives.
• Collaborate with professors to accomplish academic educations through fulfilling academic instruction tasks in blackboard system and other academic activities.
• Assist students with completing financial aid applications (FAFSA and TASFA) and applications for various scholarships.
• Handle administrative tasks including preparation of PowerPoint presentations data entry and analysis, website development and collation of marketing materials.
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Doctoral student example responsibilities.

• Manage multiple collaborative projects peripheral to dissertation that leverage experience in characterization and inorganic synthesis.
• Lead the in-vitro biophysical and biochemical characterization of homologous recombination and investigate structure-function effects of mutant enzymes.
• Used RT-PCR, ELISA, western blot, culture of establish cell lines, and immunohistochemistry.
• Apply NMR techniques to assess the effect of a health supplement on neurological changes in Alzheimer s disease.
• Analyze the molecular structures by NMR and FR-IR, determine the molecular weight and polymerization kinetics by GPC.
• Develop complex ELISA and western blot methods to study and characterize the host immune response to intracellular parasitism.
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