Spring UGRA - MESH Lab

Penn State UniversityUniversity Park, PA
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About The Position

The MESH Lab, within the Department of Biobehavioral Health is seeking applicants for part-time Research Support. The Research Support position performs a variety of specialized tasks associated with conducting and disseminating results from research, including: literature searches; editing and formatting manuscript text and tables; designing and conducting research projects/experiments; collecting data; cleaning and entering data; running data analyses; maintaining participant records; overseeing and monitoring research procedures and recordings to ensure quality control and compliance.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in the development, design, and execution of research projects, under general direction of senior research personnel and according to standard protocols or research plans; contribute to experiments/tests in the laboratory/field to test, prove, or modify theoretical propositions; collect, process, and present data
  • Provide support for a research project such as gathering, summarizing, interpreting, and disseminating information based on extant literature; determining emerging trends in a field of study, etc.
  • Review existing data for errors and/or enter data into spreadsheets, forms, or statistical software programs
  • Initiate or contribute to data analysis for use in technical reports, documents, proposals, or oral/written presentations
  • Draft research protocols, codebooks, abstracts, and consent forms; coordinate abstraction of patient data from charts in compliance with protocols; assure the collection of subject data based on protocol
  • May help oversee lab or facility operations, schedule and maintain records, maintain project budget, and maintain inventory
  • May contribute to proposal drafts to obtain grant funding
  • Serve as liaison with various research parties including Principal Investigators, research faculty, physicians, other University research offices and external research agencies

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What This Job Offers

Job Type

Part-time

Career Level

Entry Level

Industry

Educational Services

Education Level

No Education Listed

Number of Employees

5,001-10,000 employees

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