Graduate research and teaching assistant vs graduate research student

Differences between graduate research and teaching assistant and graduate research student duties and responsibilities

Graduate research and teaching assistant example responsibilities.

• Foster cross laboratory collaboration between physics labs and between engineering, biology, and chemistry departments to accomplish share goals.
• Create and design the PowerPoint presentations for lectures.
• Create a tutorial utilizing SPSS to be used by students.
• Assist faculty members or staff with SPSS laboratory or field research.
• Obtain and document patient history, physical assessment, and appropriate physiology.
• Prepare training materials and plan an orientation seminar for incoming TAs as an appoint TA mentor.
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Graduate research student example responsibilities.

• Evaluate patients' study eligibility via medical history, obtain informed consent, enroll patients, and achieve enrollment quotas.
• Conduct molecular and cellular biology research techniques including DNA, RNA and protein isolation and analysis
• Assist in organic chemistry laboratory on synthesis of molecule that behaves as fluorescent switch with cation binding properties
• Perform Parkinson's psychological test on undergraduate students at UCLA and analyze data using statistical analysis software SPSS.
• Analyze data using SAS statistical software, and map populations using GIS.
• Summarize statistics from SAS outputs for USDA research grant investigating WIC and food insecurity.
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