STUDENTS: Interested in Joining the Aging Well Lab?

 

If you are a student at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and interested in getting research experience or in conducting your own research project with older adults, come talk to me! You can be a research assistant in the Aging Well Lab in one of three capacities:

• Independent Study (we sign an independent study contract, you get a certain number of hours during the semester, you get course credit for your work)

  • "Exposure Track"--get a feel for what we do and how we do it.

  • "Project Track"--develop your own project using the Aging Well Lab data or collect your own data on aging.

• Volunteer (no course credit)

• Employee (there are times when certain projects require paid staff; paid RA's cannot earn course credit)

 

Depending on where we are in a project, some things you might be doing include:

• Coding and entering data

• Transcribing interviews

• Recruiting participants at senior centers and senior living facilities

• Calling participants about the study

• Assisting or conducting an in-person health interview, function assessment, and cognition assessment

 

RA NEEDS FOR 2020-21 ACADEMIC YEAR:

• The Aging Well Lab WILL be looking for new research assistants for the 2020-21 academic year, so please email Dr. Whitehead (bwht@umich.edu) if you are interested. RA's can be either volunteers or Independent Study students.