Thursday, October 24, 2019

UNDERGRADUATE Student Worker Position Available with College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Student worker position available

The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources has a new initiative to share its work on advancing innovative. profitable, and sustainable agricultural production systems. We are seeking an undergraduate student to help create a database of all the innovative work being done in the College and assist in a literature review of agricultural economic data.

Responsibilities include:
  • Collecting and organizing research project information with a faculty member
  • Data entry and data organization
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Summarizing economic impact data from the National Agriculture Census

Qualifications:
  • UMD undergraduate student
  • Experience with data entry and organization
  • Basic familiarity with literature searches and/or reviews
  • Experience with Excel functions, Google Office Suite including Google Forms

This detail-oriented, enthusiastic student will be working with 1-2 faculty members in the College during the Fall 2019 semester, with the possibility of working over the winter break and into the Spring 2020 semester.

The student will ideally be available for 4-6 hours per week during regular working hours (M-F, 9am-5pm). Salary of $12/hour. Interested students should send a resume and cover letter (one page max) to Mayhah Suri at msuri1@umd.edu.