Graduate Research Assistantship in Geoscience Education, North Carolina State University
A 12-month research assistantship (RA) is available for PhD candidates in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (MEAS) at North Carolina State University (NCSU). The successful applicant will work on a funded-research project in geoscience education with a focus on the use of video to support learning in “flipped” classroom environments. The position includes a monthly stipend, tuition, fees and health insurance. NCSU has a successful geoscience education program that includes two full-time faculty and approximately a dozen student researchers and postdocs. Students have access to departmental and on-campus research laboratories dedicated to the collection of qualitative and quantitative data for discipline-based STEM education research. Additional support is available for potential graduate students interested in other aspects of geoscience education. Please contact Dr. David McConnell ([log in to unmask] ) for more information. Further details on MEAS can be found at http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/. Review of applications for Fall 2014 admission will begin January 1, 2014.