The Biology Education Research group in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of New Hampshire, led by Dr. Melissa Aikens and Dr. Carrie Hall, is seeking a PhD student to begin an NSF-funded project to study the efficacy and psychosocial effects of learning communities, mentorship, and study abroad experiences for Community College life science transfer students, and how these experiences inform career choice decisions.
The graduate student will be housed in the Integrative and Organismal Biology (IOB) program within the Department of Biological Sciences, which has a strong focus on ecology and evolutionary biology. Graduate students are expected to take both biology and education-related courses. The entirety of the dissertation can be in biology education research; alternatively, there are opportunities for co-mentorship in which part of the dissertation is comprised of biology education research and part of the dissertation is comprised of basic or applied science research. Preferred applicants will have completed a Master’s degree in biology, ecology and evolutionary biology, or a related field.
Interested applicants should contact Dr. Melissa Aikens (melissa.aikens@unh.edu) or Dr. Carrie Hall (carrie.hall@unh.edu) about this opportunity before applying. Applicants will be funded on a teaching assistantship during the academic year and a research assistantship during the summer months. Applications are due to the UNH Graduate School by January 15th, 2020. More information about the Department of Biological Sciences, including the graduate program, can be found at: https://colsa.unh.edu/biological-sciences
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