Seattle – home of notable Starbucks, Nordstrom, and the awe-inspiring Costco – is also the home of my research début at the 2013 SRCD Biennial Meeting. The UHP/SURE award partially funded my travel expenses for this three-day conference with professionals in the field of child development research. With the help of two of my professors in the Speech and Hearing Science Department, Dr. Francys Subiaul and Dr. Cynthia Core, I submitted my Independent Study research as a poster presentation for the conference and was fortunate enough to be selected. Continue reading “Coo-KIES, Conferences, and the SURE Award [SURE Stories]”
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Win $500 from the Eckles Prize!
Enter the Eckles Prize for Freshman Research Excellence! This annual prize recognizes freshmen who produce research that demonstrates significant and meaningful use of the the University’s library services and collections.
All first year students are encouraged to submit a research project of any length or format from any class that reflects their best work of the year along with an essay summarizing how they used library resources to complete the project. Top Prize is a $500 gift card!
For more information on how to apply visit: http://library.gwu.edu/eckles/the-eckles-prize-for-freshman-research-excellence
Don’t miss out! The deadline is May 15.
Writing Hollywood [SURE Stories]
The following post is written by UHP student Jacob Garber, who received a UHP SURE award for research in Spring 2013. —
Hollywood TV is created behind the closed doors of the writers’ room. The writing staff brings life to comedies and dramas alike, yet the operation of these writers is largely unexplored. I am assisting Professor Phalen conduct an in-depth study of Hollywood writers, venturing into the writers’ room, exploring the relationship between the writer and the program, and tracing the history of TV writing from its roots in radio and stage performances. We hope to provide a holistic view of TV writers, from professional microculture to their larger role in the Hollywood system. Continue reading “Writing Hollywood [SURE Stories]”
Win $500 from the Eckles Prize!
Consider the Eckles Prize for Freshman Research Excellence! This annual prize recognizes freshmen who produce research that demonstrates significant and meaningful use of the the University’s library services and collections.
All first year students are encouraged to submit a research project of any length or format from any class that reflects their best work of the year along with an essay summarizing how they used library resources to complete the project. Top Prize is a $500 gift card!
For more information on how to apply visit: http://library.gwu.edu/eckles/the-eckles-prize-for-freshman-research-excellence
Don’t miss out! The deadline is May 15.
Help A UHPer: Watch TV, Get Pizza
Help a UHPer with her senior thesis and you could win a Kindle Fire HD 16GB tablet!
Continue reading “Help A UHPer: Watch TV, Get Pizza”
Continue reading “Help A UHPer: Watch TV, Get Pizza”
UHPer Doing Research? Who are you?!
If you’re a UHPer that won a SURE Award, doing independent research, a research assistant, or otherwise doing research, let us know!
It’s a quick form just so we know what’s up. What will we use it for? NOT SPAM! We swear. There are occasional opportunities for researchers, and if those opportunities are a good match for what you’re doing, we want to make sure you know about them.
So, let us know!
Research Art w/ Prof. von Barghahn-Calvetti [Paid Research Assistant Opp]
As a Faculty Fellow, Prof. Barbara von Barghahn-Calvetti has a budget of up to $1,000 to pay a student research assistant for this semester! If you’re interested in doing exciting academic work (and getting paid to do it), please contact the professor directly here: bvb@gwu.edu.
You’d be assisting with:
1) a possible exhibition on the artist Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo, a disciple of the famous Spanish master Diego Velazquez;
2) ongoing research on the Hapsburg Archduchesses of Belgium and their acquisition of tapestries;
3) early Jesuit artists/missionaries in colonial Peru;
4) reconstruction of palace interiors (Adobe Photoshop)
Of course, you’d receive credit/acknowledgment in any future product to which you contributed. No knowledge of art history is needed, just a love of exploration.
National Defense University seeks Interns
The National Defense University is a program committed to providing research and training simulations to government officials which prepare those officials for problems they face in every day activities. The National Defense University is seeking an intern to research under Dr. Stephen Bowles starting in January 2013. The intern will work with Dr. Bowles researching couples’ resilience, leadership, deployment psychology, and mind-body research.
Requirements
- College junior, senior, or graduate student
- Maintained a 3.5 GPA
- Can work 16 hours a week during the school year and 40 hours a week during the summer
- Strong writing and oral communication skills
- Can commit to a 6 month internship (1 year is preferred)
Duties
- Writing literature reviews, articles, etc.
- Preparing journal publication submissions
- Coordinating articles with co-authors
- Organizing paperwork and files
- Data analysis
- Responsible for internet operations, recruiting and scheduling participants, providing consent forms, administering psychological tests, operating interview audio recording equipment.
Be a Research Assistant in Spring 2013
We know, most of you hear “research assistant” and you immediately think , “Just like Igor, my hero”
But for those of you who haven’t been kindling a deep desire to assist a professor in interesting research your whole life, let me break down to you exactly what being a research assistant means:
- Professors do more than teach. They also do research and write books.
- They need help. That help is called a research assistant.
- Research assistants do lots of things ranging from data entry to performing tests to conducting interviews to cloning genes to more. It all depends on the project and the professor.
- In return, research assistants get academic credit. They also can be listed in the acknowledgments section of the final product. Sometimes they’re even published as co-author.
So, you think it would be pretty cool to be a co-author of a major study before you even graduate college. But how?
Luckily for you UHPers, professors want students just like you to be their research assistants. Just check out our listing of available Research Assistantships for UHPers and apply for the one(s) you’re interested in by October 26th, 2012. We’re hoping to have you hear back in time for registration, so you know what to plan for.
Then, have an amazingly awesome academic experience and impress your friends, family, admissions boards, and employers with your achievement!
