Graduate Assistant - Nutrition - Research - Spring 2026

The Nutrition Graduate Research Assistant supports faculty-led research focused on diet, health behaviors, and metabolic outcomes. Responsibilities include participant recruitment, data collection, literature reviews, quantitative and qualitative assessments, and data entry/analysis. The assistant helps prepare reports, manuscripts, and presentations, and maintains research compliance and documentation. Ideal candidates demonstrate strong organization, attention to detail, and interest in nutrition science.

RA responsibilities vary depending on the research projects active during the semester, but several core tasks are consistent across years:

Common Recurring Tasks:
Conducting literature reviews
Creating recruitment materials
Preparing IRB proposals or amendments
Data entry and data cleaning
Quantitative and qualitative data analysis
Creating or editing survey tools
Drafting and editing deliverables (abstracts, posters, manuscripts)

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree Required

• Currently admitted to a UCM MS in Clinical Nutrition Program graduate degree

• 3.0 or higher graduate level GPA if previous graduate level courses have been taken

• 2.7 or higher undergraduate level GPA if no previous graduate level courses have been taken

• Completed NUTR 5013 Practical Applications in Nutrition Research

GA Type: Research

GA Hour Expectations: 10 hours a week

Start Date of Position: 02/01/2026

End Date of Position: 05/08/2026

Total Stipend for Semester: $1,925

Working Days & Hours: 10 hours a week

Scholarship: Students filling a Graduate Assistantship (GA) position are eligible to receive a graduate tuition waiver, a graduate non-resident tuition waiver (if applicable), and a graduate mandatory fees waiver. The scholarships are in the form of a waiver and the funds are not deposited into the students personal account. Instead, the students bill is reduced by the amount of the scholarship awarded. If the maximum amount of the scholarship is not used, the remainder is not paid to the student in any form and unused scholarship money cannot be carried over to another semester. The scholarship is applied to graduate level courses only; courses taken for undergraduate credit are not eligible to be covered by the GA scholarship. The non-resident fee scholarship only applies to classes taken on the UCM Warrensburg campus. The maximum scholarship amounts are based on the size of assistantship held. For a full (20-hour per week) assistantship, the scholarship covers tuition costs and mandatory fees up to 12 credit hours of graduate coursework per semester. Graduate assistantship positions less than full will be prorated accordingly.