Teaching Assistant Opportunities

Each lab section of Bio 131 usually has a teaching assistant who gives weekly feedback on electronic lab notebooks, assists the instructor and other students during lab, and helps prepare and cleanup from lab as needed. Bio 131 TAs sometimes also help drive college vans for field trips (however, if you do not have a valid U.S. driver’s license that does not automatically exclude you from being a TA so don’t let that stop you from applying).  If you are interested in being a TA, please let Dr. Pratt know so she can keep you on a list of students to contact when she is looking for TAs and keep an eye on job openings listed on Workday. The job openings for the next semester usually get posted to Workday soon after course registration. 

Research Opportunities

Dr. Pratt does not maintain a research lab (as a Senior Lab Instructor, she only has access to teaching labs). All of her research is done within the context of teaching courses such as Bio 131. In the past, she had SURF students to help with the project Monitoring Macroinvertebrates in the Mill River each summer, but she is not currently taking SURF students. Dr. Pratt does sometimes take on Special Studies students or hire students to help with data collection, data analysis, or helping to create research/teaching materials (such as helping make identification keys for macroninvertebrates) related to the ongoing monitoring projects.