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Department Overview
Three categories
of student workers are represented in the Biology Department:
Teaching Associate, Lab Assistant and Lab Worker. Teaching
Associates work directly with faculty in preparing
laboratory reagents, materials and cultures for the
teaching labs; maintaining the teaching laboratories
and equipment; tutoring students; grading exams, quizzes,
homework, and lab notebooks; maintaining laboratory
animals; and, most importantly, assisting the professor
during laboratory sessions. The Laboratory
Assistants and Laboratory
Workers prepare
laboratory materials, maintain and clean the teaching
laboratories, and may assist in the animal room, computer
room or science library.
Work assignments
are arranged through discussions with the Biology Department
Faculty based on student interest and experience and
Departmental needs. Students
may assist in one or more areas in the Department including
zoology, botany, anatomy, physiology, microbiology,
developmental biology, parasitology, genetics, and
molecular and cellular biology. Student
applicants should have maintained a "B" average
in their major and collateral courses including Modern
Biology, Zoology, Botany, and Chemistry: Structure & Dynamics.
Job Descriptions
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