Medical Humanities Undergraduate Student Researcher
Faculty Request Form for Spring 2025

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 2025 semester. Please note that only a limited number of projects will be selected for Spring 2025. 

The deadline to request a student researcher for next semester is November 8, 2024. Please complete the request form 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 manuscripts for journal submission; 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 past 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  Spring 2025 (January 13-April 25), excluding Rice holidays (spring break, etc.). Here is the Rice Spring 2025 calendar. Students may complete some or most of this work independently. There may be an opportunity to extend the project for Fall 2025 if the student is not graduating Spring 2025.

If students require badging, security clearances, or HIPAA training, please help students complete these steps over winter break.

Student selection will occur by mid-December.

Please direct questions to:
Melissa Bailar, Executive Director, 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.)
For Internal Use
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?