Undergraduate Students 

Interested in research on Risk & Resilience? 

Apply to our undergraduate research assistant position for Fall 2022/Spring 2023

 Applicants must be current undergraduate students at the University of Maryland-College Park

What do we do? 
The RACC Lab conducts research on how different processes of risk and protection support or undermine the identity development, adaptation, and health outcomes of youth and families from adversity-exposed, ethnic-racial minority, and immigrant backgrounds.     

What are we up to? 
We are conducting two research projects this academic year:

1. RARE-Focused on improving the representation of BIPOC youth and their families in biosocial research
2. SAHS-Focused on understanding how different sociocultural processes are related to Black college students’ mental and physiological health outcomes. 

How you would help? 
· Conduct literature reviews and research summaries 
· Assist in data entry, collection, and management 
· Recruit study participants 
· Participate in community outreach activities    

What do we need from you? 
· Excited and motivated about research on ethnic-racial minority & immigrant communities 
· Must be able to register for course credit PSCY479 
· Must commit to approximately 6-9 hours a week 
· Minimum 3.0 GPA 
· Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, and organizational skills 

Research assistants are able to participate in our lab if they meet one of two conditions: 

1) They are paid by the lab or via another funding mechanism to do research
2) They are receiving course credit for research at the University of Maryland

If you are an undergraduate student interested in volunteering at the RACC lab, please fill out an application using this link and we will be in contact with you. 

Graduate Students 

If you are interested in joining the RACC lab for graduate studies, you can apply through the Department of Psychology for the Developmental or Clinical Ph.D. program (for more information, visit University of Maryland, College Park’s Department of Psychology Website). Students with interest or background in resilience, culture, stress physiology, developmental psychopathology, advanced qualitative and/or quantitative research methods are encouraged to apply. Students from historically disadvantaged background are strongly encouraged to apply.