Graduate Research Assistantship
The Northwestern Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences (DevSci) offers support for a graduate student engaged in collaborative research in the developmental sciences. The assistantship is designed to provide exceptional candidates with the opportunity and protected research time to build scientific bridges across their home laboratory to another developmentally-focused laboratory as a means of bringing new methods/approaches to bear on critical questions. A goal for the assistantship year is for students to develop an in-depth understanding of the developmental emergence and course of the mechanisms and processes related to their field, through investigation, training and/or coursework (include approach in Training Plan).
Successful candidates will have outstanding scientific and leadership promise, have a strong collaborative orientation, and have enthusiasm for working at the intersection of multiple disciplines. This one-year assistantship funded by TGS is awarded competitively, based on the candidates’ qualifications and quality of proposed research.
Applicants must be a DevSci Cluster member in good standing. This includes attendance to at least two DevSci sponsored events per year. If you have questions about your cluster status, please contact devsci@northwestern.edu