Work Study Research
Opportunities
Here
is the information on the rising sophomore work-study research program formerly
sponsored by the NSF-AIRE funds:
The Office of the Dean of the College has made stipends, of $2000 each for the next academic year, available for members of the class of 2011 to carry out collaborative research projects with natural science and social science faculty mentors next year. Currently work-study funds can not be used for research positions. Since hands-on research is so important in doing natural and social science as well as in career planning, these funds will make available academic year research opportunities as work-study positions.
The work-study committee urges interested faculty to consider working with a sophomore next year. The following process should be followed. Not all positions may be funded, depending on the number and nature of applications received.
The process will be:
1.
Interested faculty should write a three line description of the
job(s) the work-study student would do with them. This should be sent to Pat,
for the Committee, by e-mail by Monday, April 18, 2008.
2. The positions (the three line descriptions) will be listed on CWIS and sent to various FirstClass conferences. Faculty should also seek out students with whom they might like to work and find out if the students qualify for work-study. The possibility of such work could be mentioned in class by the faculty member. Other students may apply directly to the faculty member once the positions have been posted.
3. Interested faculty would then chose among applicants and confirm that the student is a work-study student. The matches, along with a paragraph from the faculty member on what the student would do and a paragraph from the student explaining why she wants to do this work, should be submitted to Mary Allen for the Committee by Friday, May 2nd.
4. The committee will rank matches, using the acquisition of research skills as a primary criterion. The faculty members and students selected will be notified by Wednesday, May 7th.
Please apply! If you have questions, please e-mail maryallen@wellesley.edu.