{"id":8116,"date":"2011-02-14T09:41:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?p=8116"},"modified":"2011-02-15T01:40:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T06:40:16","slug":"graduate-assistants-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2011\/02\/14\/graduate-assistants-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee Center Seeks Graduate Assistants for Development That Works Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2011\/02\/06\/development-conference\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7993\" title=\"Pardee-Dev-Red\" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2011\/02\/Pardee-Dev-Red.jpg\" alt=\"Pardee-Dev-Red\" width=\"328\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>Application deadline: Monday, February 28, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Range Future seeks up to four research assistants for a short-term assignment related to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2011\/02\/06\/development-conference\/\"><em>Development That Works<\/em><\/a> conference on March 31, 2011. Candidates must be able to commit to attending the all-day conference on March 31 and to complete writing assignments related to the conference report by no later than Friday, April 15.<\/p>\n<p>We are interested in graduate students with strong writing skills, and substantive knowledge and keen interest in global development issues.<\/p>\n<p>The research assistants will:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Serve as rapporteur for one      session at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/2011\/02\/06\/development-conference\/\"><em>Development That      Works<\/em><\/a> Conference and produce a written report on it.<\/li>\n<li>Produce a second, short article      on one aspect of global development that is discussed in one of the      conference sessions.<\/li>\n<li>Assist with other tasks on the      day of the conference as requested.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Qualifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current BU graduate student with      substantive knowledge of global development issues.<\/li>\n<li>Strong writing skills.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to work independently      and meet deadlines.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to commit to attending      the full day conference on Thursday, March 31, 2011 and to complete the      writing assignments by Friday, April 15. Students will also be asked to      attend a pre-conference preparatory meeting in mid-March.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Selected students will receive a small stipend. Interested students should send (a) a cover letter, (b) a resume, (c) a short writing sample (approx. 3 pages), and (d) the name of a BU professor we can contact as a reference to:\u00a0 Cynthia Barakatt, <a href=\"mailto:barakatt@bu.edu\">barakatt@bu.edu<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span>by Monday, February 28, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Application deadline: Monday, February 28, 2011 The Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Range Future seeks up to four research assistants for a short-term assignment related to our Development That Works conference on March 31, 2011. Candidates must be able to commit to attending the all-day conference on March 31 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4141,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8125,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions\/8125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}