Undergraduate Training Opportunities
Women's Mental Health Research Program
Discover MoreStudent Research Assistants are valuable members of the Women’s Mental Health Research team and play an important role in the implementation of our research studies. Students should be self-motivated and display a high attention to detail.
Student RAs complete Initial Investigator and Human Subjects Protection HIPAA training. Depending on available studies and level of involvement, RAs may receive additional training in neurocognitive testing/scoring, specimen processing, bloodborne pathogen handling and conducting the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM Disorders (SCID).
For more information on Undergraduate Research at UIC, please visit the UIC Office of Undergraduate Research or the Undergraduate Research Experience websites.
The student should be in good academic standing with a strong GPA (3.0 or above) and have an interest in women’s mental health, psychology, psychiatry, medicine, nursing, epidemiology, microbiome, biology, nutrition, immunology, computational biology, engineering or related field.
We strongly prefer a 2-year commitment from students because of the effort required to train students in our research methods. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis for seniors. Students should plan to commit 10 hours per week during the school year to the WMHRP.
Preference may be given to students in the Honors College; students who have completed courses in research methods or statistics; and/or students with a background in statistics, engineering, epidemiology and/or computer science. Familiarity with Excel and/or REDCap is ideal.
Interested applicants should complete the WMHRP Research Assistant application form and send it, along with a resume and copy of current transcripts to BrainResearchuic [dot] edu.
Julieta Melkun is a third year pre-medical undergraduate student at University of Illinois Chicago who is pursuing a BS degree in Nutrition and MD. She is a research assistant at Bealab for the MoMent study where she assists with processing biological sampling, organizing clinical data, and completing other various lab tasks.
Priya is and undergraduate volunteer at women’s mental health research program. She is currently a undergraduate student at UIC majoring in neuroscience on the pre med track. She is very passionate about women’s health and providing a positive impact to the community by helping further the topic into the medical world.
Baeyoung is currently a second-year Biological Sciences student aiming for a double major in Neuroscience and Gender & Women’s Studies. She is a member of the Honors College and is an active hospital and hospice volunteer outside of classes.