01/31/2018
The Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory has excellent volunteer opportunities for undergraduate students. We can help build your skills within a large, highly-functioning scientific team. We can also provide research opportunities that will help you along a research or medical career. Our lab can also help tie in your education with actual laboratory application. We have a few basic eligibility requirements you must meet in order to volunteer in our lab.
In order to be eligible for this undergraduate research assistant position, you must be able to:
1. Volunteer an average of 9 hours per week (hour requirements detailed below in #2) for a minimum of one calendar year (not just 2 academic semesters). If you start in the middle of this semester then we will count the entire semester towards your one year commitment. Candidates are encouraged to apply to our lab early in their college career in hopes of volunteering longer than this minimum requirement. Candidates are allowed to break up their calendar year commitment if studying abroad. Candidates are also allowed to volunteer after they graduate. If you plan to study abroad or graduate, please explain in your application how you plan to complete the calendar year commitment in our lab.
2. Volunteer 5-8 hours per week during business hours (M-F, 9-5pm) when we aren’t running sleep studies. When we are running studies, you must volunteer 9-12 hours per week; these hours can happen anytime during the day or night on weekdays and/or weekends since our subjects live in our lab Thursday through Monday to complete a study. These shifts are scheduled based on your availability but we also expect everybody to work overnights, early mornings, or day shifts. We typically run sleep studies about half the weeks of every month.
3. Understand this is not a paid position. After being in the lab at least one semester, you may be invited to apply for research funds through UROP/Burst and/or be considered for independent study credit hours. Your invitation to apply for funding is based on your performance during your first semester in our lab.
4. Email Geoffrey.Davis@Colorado.EDU your completed application (below) and updated resume as soon as possible and no later than Tuesday February 06, 2018.
We need about one week to review the applications and select the candidates that qualify for an interview. This interview is the final step of the application process and we hope to finish interviews by the last week of February. If you have any questions about this application process, please email our Lab Manager Geoff at Geoffrey.Davis@Colorado.EDU or call him at 303-735-1923 (M-F, 9am-5pm).
To learn more about research conducted in our lab, you can view our website athttp://www.colorado.edu/intphys/research/sleep.html for more details.
Thank you again for your interest in our lab!
Dr. Wright’s Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory Team
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Application for an Undergraduate Research Assistant Position in Dr. Wright’s Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory. Please email Geoff at Geoffrey.Davis@Colorado.EDU to submit your answers and your resume for review. Please submit ASAP and no later than 02/06/2018.
Name:
Family address:
Local address:
Cell phone:
Email (CU-Boulder email):
Year in school:
Expected graduation date:
Major/s:
Minor/s:
GPA:
Which semesters/summers you can volunteer in our lab:
Please provide at least a few sentences and no more than two paragraphs to answer the following questions.
1. Why do you want to join this lab and what do you hope to gain?
2. Do you have any prior research experience (in another research lab, job, or from a class)?
3. What skills do you have that may benefit our lab?
4. What commitments do you have in addition to school (work, organizations, volunteering, etc.) and how do you plan to juggle your commitments?
5. How do you feel you are able to handle working overnight shifts?
6. What are your professional plans/career goals after graduation?
