Research Assistant Position: Decision Making, Reward Processing, and Trauma
Prof. Elizabeth Olson, Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders Laboratory (ADLab), Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research (CDASR), McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School
fall 2019


Description of Project and Duties: Our lab has multiple current neuroimaging and behavioral projects investigating decision-making and reward processing in trauma-exposed populations. For more information, see ...

Research Assistants: Evolution and Development of Music Cognition
Prof. Max Krasnow, Dr. Samuel Mehr, and Prof. Steven Pinker, The Music Lab, Psychology/FAS
fall 2019


If you are reading this, you are probably doing so on a device that plays music. You are probably able to hear and understand that music. You probably can also produce music of your own, even if you've never had music lessons. You probably engage with music on a regular basis, regardless of your cultural background, location in the world, or socioeconomic status. You have probably been this way your whole...

Research Assistants: Language Development
Prof. Jesse Snedeker, Language Develoment Lab, Lab for Develomental Studies, Psychology/FAS
fall 2019


What we Do: We study language development and processing in children and adults. Some of our current projects include researching how people represent events linguistically, how and when children start using presuppositions, and what effect parent speech has on child language development....

Research Assistant: Genetics and Molecular Biology of Brain Tumors
Dr. Christian Badr, Badr Lab, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
fall 2019


Research Assistant wanted to study fatty acid metabolism in brain tumor cancer stem cells. We are seeking volunteer-based Research Assistants to join our group focused on brain tumor research at Massachusetts General Hospital. The lab, which is part of the MGH Neurology Department, is located in...

Resaerch Assistant: Computational Neuroimaging
Prof. Anastasia Yendiki, Laboratory for Computational Neuroimaging, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
fall 2019


The student researcher will contribute to a project that aims to map connections in the human brain, based on a combination of in vivo diffusion MRI brain scans with prior information from microscopic resolution ex vivo MRI and optical imaging. Brain pathways will be labeled manually to produce training data for an...

Web Intern: Arts-Based Pedagogy (paid position)
Pre-Texts, Prof. Doris Sommer, Romance Languages and Literatures & African and African-American Studies/FAS
summer and fall 2019


Prof. Doris Sommer is seeking a workstudy-eligible undergraduate intern to develop the website for Pre-Texts, an arts-based pedagogy for academic fields. Current files include recorded workshops and outcomes in many countries and institutions, from schools to prisons, to Ministries of Culture and Development. The internship (up to 10 hours weekly) would...

Research Assistant Positions: Cognitive Development (Spelke)
Prof. Elizabeth Spelke, Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Psychology/FAS  &  Harvard-MIT Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines
Fall 2019


Seeking interested and motivated students to assist with research in Prof. Elizabeth Spelke's cognitive development lab, under the aegis of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies and the Harvard-MIT Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines. Most of the research in the lab uses behavioral methods, focused on infants'...

Research Assistant: Neurobiology of Sleep
Prof. Tom Scammell, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School, Boston
full-time post-graduation (start date 1 August 2019 but flexible)


We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Research Assistant with a background in neurobiology who would like to apply a wide variety of research techniques. Our laboratory investigates the neurobiology of sleep; in particular, we hope to identify the neurotransmitters and neural pathways that...

Research Coordinator Position: Neural Function, Cognition and Learning, and Language Disorders
Dr. Yael Arbel, Co-Director of Cognitive Neuroscience Group, Learning and Development (LEAD) team, Department of Communicatino Sciences and Disorders, Institute of Health Professions, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
full-time post-graduation (anticipated start date 19 August 2019)


A research coordinator is needed for federally funded projects to study neural function associated with cognition and learning in typically developing...

Research Technician I Position: Child Social Development
Prof. Jamie Ostrov, Social Development Laboratory, University of Buffalo
full-time, post-graduation (beginning August 2019)

In this role, you will report to the principal investigator (Dr. Jamie Ostrov) and Research Support Specialist and will assist them with the coordination of the daily functions of the research project, while also supporting the interview and psychophysiology data collection in local child...

Research Assistant Position: Memory in Food-Caching Birds
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University
full-time, post-graduation


Columbia University's Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute is looking for a highly motivated individual to fill the position of a Research Staff Assistant. The position is in a systems neuroscience lab that focuses on the mechanisms of memory in food-caching birds (black-capped chickadees and tufted titmice). Major responsibilities include maintaining a colony of...

Research Assistant Position: Publication Bias in the Sciences
Maya Mathur and Prof. Tyler VanderWeele (Public Health)
Summer 2019

Keywords: reproducibility, meta-analysis, replicability, meta-science

Our research is assessing the severity of publication bias in different scientific disciplines (the social sciences, medicine, and the natural sciences). To this end, we are reviewing samples of published meta-analyses in these disciplines and statistically estimating how much publication bias has distorted the...

Research Assistant Positions: Law, Brain, and Behavior
Dr. Francis Shen, JD, PhD, Harvard MGH Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior (Medical School) and Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics (Law School)
Summer 2019 (paid, part-time or full-time)


The Harvard MGH Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior (CLBB) seeks to hire paid Research Associates and Undergraduate Research Assistants for the summer term 2019 (June-Aug). Research Associates and Research Assistants will play an integral...

Research Assistant Position: Cultural Evolution and Psychology of Story
Manvir Singh, Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab, Human Evolutionary Biology/FAS
Summer 2019
 

Seeking research assistants with interests in narrative, cultural evolution, and human universals to assist with research on cross-cultural patterns in story. Duties: The project will involve gathering ethnography and folklore to compile a cross-cultural database of story with the goal of identifying universal narrative patterns. Students who get involved may be invited to lead their own...

Internship: Advanced Signal Processing in Cortical Neurophysiology
Prof. Sydney Cash, Cashlab, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Summer 2019

The Cashlab in the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital has a volunteer internship position open for a student interested in...