The Weatherhead Center invites Center Faculty Associates (as well as Harvard Academy Scholars) to apply for research assistance from Harvard College undergraduates. These undergraduates hail from a variety of disciplines, and they have research interests relating to the work of the Center. The Center can hold workshops run by its Graduate Student Associates to teach undergraduate research assistant candidates specific skills such as Excel, SSCI, Lexis/Nexis, Jstor, Stata, Powerpoint, Omnipage Pro, Hein, EndNote, and Wordstat, among others.

Who is Eligible

Any Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate who has a research need that can be met by an undergraduate may apply.

How to Apply

Interested faculty should contact the Center’s executive director, Steven B. Bloomfield.

Deadline

The Center accepts student applications throughout the year but prefers to receive indications of faculty interest by September 20 for the fall term and January 20 for the spring term.

Terms

The Weatherhead Center will provide 50% of the cost of the research assistantship at a rate of $11 per hour, for up to ten hours per week. Research assistance may include some of the following: quantitative and qualitative data research, entering data into spreadsheets and data and spreadsheet management, finding source materials held by the Harvard College Library, finding and evaluating sources on the Internet, analyzing and summarizing research materials, compiling bibliographies, reference checking, and helping to proofread and edit written work. Faculty who receive support from the Center should acknowledge it in future publications of their research.