Fatigue & Fracture Student Research Assistant

Position OverviewAssisting in research lab work, including fabricating, building, instrumenting, testing, and cleaning up test specimens, analyzing data, and reporting results. Undergraduate and graduate students from all departments are welcome to apply.Job Description100% The student will aid in research related to structural engineering. Job duties may...

Position Overview This Student Research Assistant role supports a project examining the role nonprofit organizations play in strengthening community resilience. The research focuses on how nonprofit operations, strategies, capacities, and institutional connections influence resilience outcomes. In this position, the student will primarily assist with...

Position Overview The Speech in Little Bilinguals Lab (SLBL) at KU is seeking a student hourly research assistant for an on-campus position starting Spring 2026. The SLBL is running a project focused on the speech and language development of 3-6 year old German-English bilingual children. This role is ideal for students looking to gain hands-on experience...

Position Overview The student research assistant supports project PI with secondary data collection on anti-crime and anti-corruption policies across several countries. Job Description 100% - Help build a cross-national dataset by gathering secondary data from supranational reports, government reports, legal documents, academic articles, and other existing...

Position OverviewPer the State of Kansas, student employees may hold concurrent appointments not to exceed maximum appointment and hours worked levels. However, concurrent student appointments must be of matching FLSA designation (exempt/salaried or non-exempt/hourly).Some grants due to restrictions for core funds require Students to be a US Citizen or...

Position OverviewThis role will investigate techniques for calibrating and optimizing the sensitivity of cosmic-ray detector facilities based on measurements of radio-frequency signals generated by interactions of cosmic rays with ice molecules.For the past three decades, the KU particle astrophysics program has pursued the first-ever detection of...

Position Overview This role will investigate techniques for calibrating and optimizing the sensitivity of cosmic-ray detector facilities based on measurements of radio-frequency signals generated by interactions of cosmic rays with ice molecules.For the past three decades, the KU particle astrophysics program has pursued the first-ever detection of...

Job Description100%  - Undergraduate Research Assistant performs laboratory tasks in support of a wide range of research in fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Tasks may include but are not limited to fabrication:lab specimen preparation.lab cleanup.data processing and archiving.computational simulation.interdisciplinary...

Position OverviewThe Undergraduate Research Assistant will support the development of an online calculator for thermodynamic data. The role involves refining existing code, creating a user-friendly interface, and delivering a functional application that integrates two calculators into one webpage.Job Description70% Implement, improve, and test the provided...

Position OverviewThe Student Geological Research Assistant (position located on the Lawrence campus) works at the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) with KGS Scientists and KU Faculty to collect and process samples for geochemical analyses. As needed, the successful candidate will also work with the KGS Core Librarian to inventory, clean, organize, photograph,...