Medical Humanities Undergraduate Student Researcher
Faculty Request Form for Spring 2026

Faculty Mentors:

The Medical Humanities Research Institute is accepting requests for a Rice undergraduate student researcher to assist you with a medical humanities research project for Spring 2026 (for one or two semesters). Please note that only a limited number of projects will be selected for the Spring semester. 

The deadline to request a student researcher for the academic year is September 22, 2025, and the online request form can be found below.

These paid positions allow Rice undergraduate students to gain experience by assisting faculty members with their research or formal scholarship projects that engage healthcare and the humanities. In the past, students have supported the work of faculty members by writing literature reviews or promotional materials; helping manage and analyze qualitative data; assisting preparation of article or book manuscripts; conducting, coding and analyzing interviews; and helping produce deliverables including videos, slide decks and decision aids for use by patients, health care providers, and health care educators. Descriptions of recent research projects can be found on the MHRI website.

Faculty Mentors should provide sufficient opportunity for Rice students to devote 5 hours per week to the project for the Spring 2026 (January 20 - May 5) and/or Fall 2026 (August 24 – December 15) semesters, excluding Rice holidays (spring break, winter recess, etc.). Here are the Rice Spring 2026 and Fall 2026 calendars. Students may complete some or most of this work independently.

If students require badging, security clearances, or other onboarding requirements, please help students complete these steps over winter recess. All of the selected students will be required to complete specific CITI IRB training.

Student selection will occur in late October/early November and Faculty Mentors of selected research projects must be available to review and rank student applications during this timeframe via email.

Please direct questions to:
Tiffany Morgan, Executive Administrator, Medical Humanities Research Institute

Project Information for the Online Posting
For the online posting, 2-4 sentences describing the larger research project and the student research portion. Indicate how the student’s work would engage with medical humanities.
Steps the student will need to complete to begin work (badging, HIPAA or research training, background check, etc. All students will be required to complete specific
CITI IRB training modules.)
Will students be required to work off campus? If so, will international students be eligible? Will students be able to walk or take public transportation?
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