Graduate student internship vs laboratory teaching assistant

Differences between graduate student internship and laboratory teaching assistant duties and responsibilities

Graduate student internship example responsibilities.

• Help veterans and their families learn to manage symptoms of PTSD through education, self-awareness, and becoming aware of triggers.
• Collaborate with OTR on needs of clients to increase strength, endurance and independence with ADL's upon discharge.
• Provide client and caregiver education regarding safety, ADL reeducation, or techniques and strategies that will benefit the client occupationally.
• Perform kinetic and mechanistic studies using NMR spectroscopy.
• Collaborate with organic chemists improving the effectiveness of RNA inhibitors.
• Perform quantitative determination of primary pollutant's degradation using HPLC.
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Laboratory teaching assistant example responsibilities.

• Lead and instruct college level students in the fundamentals of astronomy through experiments design to teach basics to non-engineering majors.
• Manage and develop the instruction of anatomy and physiology labs.
• Lead discussion sections for students to understand concepts including introductory quantum theory and statistical thermodynamics as well as their applications.
• Operate laboratory equipment including IR spectrometers, NMR spectrometers and mass spectrometers.
• Plan lessons for laboratory, split grading responsibilities with other TA, assist students with weekly laboratory experiments.
• Head laboratory instructor for general physiology, comparative physiology, comparative morphology, anatomy and physiology, and herpetology.
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