Volunteer Opportunities for Students
Various opportunities are made available to current students interested in gaining direct experience conducting research, including contributing to the work of funded laboratories and scholarship of faculty members. If you are interested in volunteering to learn more about research or are considering a career in science, please contact faculty members directly to learn more.
Healthy Aging Research & Technology (HART) Lab
Smartphone Intervention for Underactive Older Adults with and without Memory Difficulties
Faculty: Stacey Schepens Niemiec
Nature of Work: We had developed and tested a specialized smartphone application to improve physical activity patterns in older adults who were cognitively healthy or had mild memory difficulties. These projects are in the analysis and dissemination phase. Duties would primarily include processing and analyzing data in preparation for publications and/or presentations and thus require excellent writing skills (see below). Secondary duties may include literature reviews, progress reports to the IRB, and other clerical tasks such as equipment inventorying and maintenance.
Time Commitment: 6-20 hours/week for at least 2 semesters
Preferred Skills and Resources: CITI trainings including Human Subjects, Good Clinical Practice, and Research HIPAA training offered through USC are required, excellent writing skills to produce academic publications, analytic frame of mind, attention to detail, literature searching skills, and PowerPoint and Excel experience, and access to online communication technology (e.g., internet, video camera), comfort interacting and being productive in a remote/virtual setting.
Preferred method of communication: Email
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¡Vivir Mi Vida! Lifestyle Intervention to Optimize Health Outcomes in Latino Patients
Faculty: Stacey Schepens Niemiec
Nature of Work: Our interdisciplinary research team is developing a Lifestyle Redesign® intervention for aging Latinos who receive primary care services in rural communities. Intervention development is currently underway, including refreshing and expanding the intervention manual, aligning intervention modules to be compatible with the Rural Healthy People 2030 national goals, and transitioning all study procedures and intervention components to be fully remote. Duties may include transcription, Spanish-to-English translation, health resource gathering, review of training manual iterations, translating intervention modular content for delivery via telehealth, development of activity-based intervention modules, development of training for community health workers, searching literature, and/or creating reports and presentations.
Time Commitment: 6–10 hours/week for at least two semesters
Preferred Skills and Resources: CITI trainings including Human Subjects, Good Clinical Practice, and Research HIPAA training offered through USC are required, Spanish-English bilingual, passion for and connection to the Latino community, attention to detail, literature searching skills, experience analyzing qualitative data (ideal but not required), excellent writing skills, willingness to occasionally travel offsite to rural areas such as Antelope Valley and Coachella Valley to meet with community partners, access to online communication technology (e.g., internet, video camera), comfort interacting and being productive in a remote/virtual setting, REDCap data management software experience, PowerPoint and Excel experience.
Preferred method of communication: Email
Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Development of a Lifestyle Intervention for the Prevention and Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
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