Research assistant vs graduate fellow

Differences between research assistant and graduate fellow duties and responsibilities

Research assistant example responsibilities.

• Update twitter profile and manage social media campaign.
• Manage social media publications to spread awareness and notifications on Facebook.
• Evaluate patients' study eligibility via medical history, obtain informed consent, enroll patients, and achieve enrollment quotas.
• Learned many laboratory techniques, assays, and protocols; western blot, real-time PCR, tick collection, DNA extraction.
• Analyze the effects of estrogen on various tissues using molecular biology techniques such as RT-PCR, RNA and DNA extractions.
• Gain familiarity with research terminology, development procedures, data collection and management, and IRB considerations.
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Graduate fellow example responsibilities.

• Develop and manage syllabus material; evaluate students' performance relative to standardize learning objectives.
• Assist with creating scoring keys for automate scoring engines for mathematics and short-text constructed-response tasks.
• Prepare the documents and PowerPoint presentations containing the results for the ETSU COE s NCATE accreditation evaluation
• Present technical data using PowerPoint.
• Research mathematics with faculty and teach mathematics to undergraduate students
• Develop procedures for hydrothermal synthesis of uranyl vanadate minerals and novelmineral analogues.
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