is there a place where professors post positions they need to fill for research assistants?

9/17/2006 12:28:39 AM

which department?

get to know your professors...ask the ones you like about their research and openings in their labs, or if they know of any openings with their colleagues

9/17/2006 1:51:43 AM

http://www.ncsu.edu/undergrad-research/

9/17/2006 2:24:56 AM

if you are interested, CALS maintains exactly what you are looking (but only for the college) on the department's home page

9/17/2006 3:33:10 AM

what is usually invovled in undergrad research?

9/17/2006 1:15:52 PM

whatever you want it to be, for me it included studying snakes for ten weeks in Costa Rica and now this summer in Brazil studying plants

however more commonly it usually entails assisting a professor at your college doing something of at least moderate interest to you, be it genetics, ecology, biochemistry, whatever

9/17/2006 2:19:31 PM

yeah, it's pretty great. I did it for 2 semesters. An incentive is that you get course credit depending on how many hours you contribute a week to the research. Not to mention its a good way to get experience, although its unpaid. Also, if you get really involved you can sometimes do your own side research project with the professor as the mentor and participate in the undergrad research symposium. Not to mention you can put it on your resume.

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9/18/2006 4:43:51 PM

i've done it for a while. it's just working w/ a prof, doing differnt things. i've actually done it w/ two profs, and have had journal articles published and presented posters at a conference in DC.

9/18/2006 11:06:24 PM

also it doesn't have to be unpaid, the REU program funded by the NSF pays about a $3000 stipend for 10 weeks of research and all associated costs

also if you find a professor that has grants with funds written in it to support undergrad research, then again it can be paid

ALSO, if you apply to the office of undergrad research or your dept/college, you might be able to get money to support your project before hand (if you know what you wanna do, typically up to $500, or I have gotten money from both for something that cost more than $500 and totalled my funding to about $800)...often in these cases there are more funds than applicants so it's not that hard if you can write a half-decent proposal and are persistent

9/18/2006 11:59:19 PM

i'm a chem major, and i did a little bit of research this summer and i was pretty much just running reactions and comparing results with the grad student i was working with.

9/19/2006 8:17:31 AM