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Yan Dai
yandai@bu.edu

Options: Volunteer, Potential for UROP Funding, Potential for Academic Credit

My laboratory studies the mechanisms of cancer cell growth and metastasis including prostate, breast and lung cancer by using various molecular/cellular biology techniques and in vivo mice model systems.  We are looking for students who are interested in cancer research and are responsible at the work.  This position requires a minimum commitment to the work of 15 hours/week over the summer and an interest in continuing with the lab through the semesters. The rising junior and senior students are encouraged to apply.

Kathleen Corriveau
kcorriv@bu.edu
Options: Volunteer Basis, Potential for UROP Funding, Potential for Academic Credit

The Social Learning Laboratory at Boston University’s School of Education is currently seeking volunteer research assistants for the summer of 2013 and the next academic year. Our research focuses on how children use adults and children to learn about the world. We test children in schools, local museums, through home visits and in the lab. This position is an opportunity for students who are interested in developmental psychology and education to be involved in all aspects of research including literature review, study design, collection and analysis of data and presentation at local and national conferences.

The summer position requires a minimum commitment of 20 hours/week with a start date in May or early June.
In this position you will:
• Participate in weekly research meetings
• Assist in recruiting participants
• Provide support in creating a database of participants
• Be involved in the development of testing materials to be used in studies
• Assist in the testing of children at the Museum of Science in Boston and in local schools

Qualified students will:
• Have an interest in working with young children and child development
• Have an interest in quantitative methods in educational and psychological research (completion of a research methods course is preferred, but no prior experience including coursework is required)
• Be organized, efficient, responsive to email, and good at communicating with a research team
• Be available one weekend day a week to facilitate research at the Museum of Science

For more information visit our website: http://www.bu.edu/learninglab/

Devin Kearns
kearnsdm@bu.edu
Options: Volunteer Basis, Potential for UROP Funding, Potential for Academic Credit

Dr. Kearns’s work focuses on word reading difficulties in children in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. He studies the basic processes involved in word reading in children (links to cognitive and developmental psychology) and designs interventions to improve reading outcomes in these struggling readers. Work in his lab involves two kinds of tasks:
1) Work in schools with children, either testing them or delivering instruction to struggling readers.
2) Work on campus to enter data and validate its accuracy.

Qualified candidates will be willing and able to do both kinds of work. Important qualifications include these:
* Organizational skills
* Problem-solving skills and the ability to figure out complex tasks
* Flexibility
* Consistency and punctuality
* Hard work.

It is an expectation that students will work at least 10 hours per week.
Applicants should write to Dr. Kearns directly. Please include your resume and schedule in your inquiry. We look forward to hearing from you!

Devin Kearns
kearnsdm@bu.edu
Options: Volunteer Basis, Potential for UROP Funding, Potential for Academic Credit

Dr. Kearns’s work focuses on word reading difficulties in children in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. He studies the basic processes involved in word reading in children (links to cognitive and developmental psychology) and designs interventions to improve reading outcomes in these struggling readers. Work in his lab involves two kinds of tasks:
1) Work in schools with children, either testing them or delivering instruction to struggling readers.
2) Work on campus to enter data and validate its accuracy.

Qualified candidates will be willing and able to do both kinds of work. Important qualifications include these:
* Organizational skills
* Problem-solving skills and the ability to figure out complex tasks
* Flexibility
* Consistency and punctuality
* Hard work.

It is an expectation that students will work at least 10 hours per week.
Applicants should write to Dr. Kearns directly. Please include your resume and schedule in your inquiry. We look forward to hearing from you!

Lea Vugic
bright2@bu.edu
Options: Volunteer Basis, Potential for UROP Funding

Evaluation of Project BRIGHT II (Building Resilience through Intervention: Growing Healthier Together) — SUMMER OPPORTUNITY
Project BRIGHT II is an intervention designed to address traumatic stress in children ages birth to 7 and their parents in recovery from Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and Co-Occurring Disorders (COD), at 3 Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs) in Massachusetts. Project BRIGHT II employs Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), which aims to build new understandings and behaviors within families that promote developmental progress, resilience, and emotional stability.
The BU evaluation study will evaluate Project BRIGHT II’s program activities, interventions, methods, and implementation to assess the project’s overall effectiveness. Project BRIGHT II evaluation staff are currently collecting data on the child development, history and symptoms of trauma in both parent and child, and parental stressors, which will be used as part of the evaluation. Data collected during the evaluation study will contribute to a greater clinical understanding of the impact of trauma on children and to the development of effective evidence-based practice models.

JOB DESCRIPTION: Research assistants (RAs) are needed to assist with this evaluation project during the summer and/or fall of 2013. The RAs on this project will be entering data into SPSS, transcribing interviews, and cleaning data and transcripts. There will also be other opportunities to become involved in the project in a variety of ways.

TIME COMMITMENT: At least 10 hours per week over the summer. 5-10 hours per week for the fall.

Please send your resume and a letter of interest to bright2@bu.edu.

John McCarthy
jmmcc@bu.edu
Options: Volunteer Basis, Potential for UROP Funding, Potential for Work-Study Funding, Potential for Academic Credit

This is 6th year of an outreach project at The Boston English Public High school where we teach personal and social responsibility in a before-school physical activity program called “Get Ready” This is a school with 45% Latino population.
In the last two years we have begun to deliver the program in Spanish. We are in need of a UROP student who is fluent in Spanish that would want to work with us in either the summer or fall translating into English certain recordings of the students as well as their written work. Additionally, we have many documents that need to be translated into Spanish. (i.e. informed consent forms, promotional flyers, program concepts)

Jay Dorfman
jdorfman@bu.edu
Options: Volunteer Basis

A colleague and I are developing an online test to examine pre-college students’ skills and knowledge related to music technology. We are looking for a student with web development experience who can create the interface for this test, and can develop a friendly back-end that allows users to upload files, and collects answers to multiple choice and T/F questions.

Paola Sebastiani
sebas@bu.edu
Options: Independent Funding Available, Potential for Work-Study Funding, Potential for UROP Funding

The New England Centenarian Study (Director Thomas T Perls, Boston University Medical School, Dr Sebastiani statistician) seeks a summer research assistant with competence in software engineering and computer science to complete a database of demographic data about centenarians and their family ancestors. Most demographic data are available through public databases that can be accessed through the WWW and one of the tasks will be implementation of scripts for searching this information in an automated way, using search engines like Google. In addition, the New England Centenarian Study can access digitalized census data, and other large databases, and the research assistant will link centenarian data to census data to extract information about early life exposures, social economic status, and other variables that can potentially help us discover no! n-genetic factor that predispose to healthy and long life. Programming skills, ability to work Google custom search API (https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview ), experience working with massive data sets are essential . The research assistant will work with Drs Sebastiani and Perls, and receive training on working with human subjects data.

Raffi Miller
miller@bu.edu
Options: Volunteer Basis

We are conducting a dental public health study that looks at how cavities affects quality of life in children. The study takes place at Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton, and will give researchers an opportunity to interact with dental residents and observe dental treatment in patients from age 1-21. Franciscan Hospital is a predominantly special needs hospital, and this is the population we are most interested in studying. Responsibilities on the project and time commitment are flexible, and the main role for researchers is recruiting patients to join the study. Travel to the School of Dental Medicine is required to complete some parts of the study.

James Rohlf
rohlf@bu.edu
Options: Independent Funding Available, Potential for Work-Study Funding, Potential for Academic Credit

Work in a high energy physics laboratory at BU where state of the art electronics (eventually bound for the CERN Large Hadron Collider) are interfaced to computers for high-speed data acquisition. Help test the functionality of the design while learning about new hardware and laboratory techniques while helping to write new software to control the electronics.