If you are a graduate student and are eligible for financial aid you can be paid to work on research projects with me. See the details below.

Recently offices received a notice from the Center for Student Work Experience requesting undergraduate work-study students.  The Graduate School, working with the Center for Student Work Experience, will continue referring graduate work-study students to graduate faculty during the forthcoming academic year (2003-04).  Graduate work-study students serve as graduate research assistants to faculty involved in research projects.  The typical award amount for work-study is equivalent to approximately 15 hours of work per week for the student during the academic year.  The hourly wage will be at least $14.95.

In order for the Graduate School to make the best match possible between students’ interests and experiences and faculty members’ research projects, these are the necessary steps:

·     Interested faculty members should write a brief memo to the Graduate Dean describing the research and the type of work a graduate work-study research assistant would be asked to perform

·     Faculty may request students by name, but it should be noted that only students who are eligible for financial aid may receive work-study awards

·     The memo should be received in the Graduate School as soon as possible, but no later than August 1

·     Eligibility for graduate work-study (financial aid) is determined during the summer

·     The Graduate School will refer students to faculty members during the summer and early fall

Both the student receiving the graduate work-study assignment and the faculty member who has been assigned a work-study graduate research assistant are asked to submit a brief (one-page) description at the end of the assignment describing the benefits, respectively, to the student for involvement in the research and the progress made on the research project.

If you have any questions, please contact:

We are all looking forward to another successful year of placement of graduate work-study students.

copy:    Chairs of departments with graduate programs

            Graduate program advisers

            Graduate program coordinators/secretaries

            Clara Capron, SFR

            Mary Murray and Jim DeWilde, Center for Student Work Experience