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unusual facts about research assistant



Joseph Wu

He served as a teacher and research assistant in the political science department of Ohio State University in the United States, and as deputy director of the Institute of International Relations of National Chengchi University in Taiwan.

Terkel Rosenqvist

He was a research assistant at the university, and also worked as a chemist and metallurgist for Elektrokemisk and Christiania Spigerverk.


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Albert Poggio

Thanks to his political contacts, Poggio had always gained "research assistant" passes that have allowed him free access to the UK House of Commons and its dependencies.

Andrew Houison

He did post-graduate research in antisepsis with Professor Joseph Lister and was offered a position as Lister's research assistant.

Ann Aldrich

She served as a research assistant for Professor Edmond N. Cahn of the New York University Law School from 1952 to 1953, and for Arthur T. Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1952 to 1953.

Ataol Behramoğlu

Between November 1972 and June 1974, he worked as a research assistant at Moscow State University Faculty of Russian Philology, Chair of Russian and Soviet Literature.

Catherine L. Malone

From November of 1996 to present she works as a field research assistant in various Caribbean nations, such as Dominican Republic, Montserrat, St. Eustatius, and Saba, St. Lucia.

Cesky Terrier

Although not a trained scientist, Horák worked for many years as a research assistant at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and used knowledge gained there in his dog breeding.

Charles A. Foster

He was a research assistant to Aharon Barak, Justice (and later President) of the Supreme Court of Israel.

Charles Percy Parkhurst

He had a fellowship with Paul J. Sachs, a Byzantine expert, at Dumbarton Oaks, but never a superb linguist, Parkhurst felt that he was unqualified for this position and left to become a research assistant at the National Gallery of Art along with his fellow student Craig Hugh Smith.

Cornelis Johannes van Houten

Born in The Hague, he spent his entire career at Leiden University except for a brief period (1954–1956) as research assistant at Yerkes Observatory.

David Chilton

Although Chilton loved the people of Placerville and did not want to leave, he accepted a job offer from prominent Reconstructionist (and Rushdoony son-in-law) Gary North as a research assistant at The Institute for Christian Economics in Tyler, Texas.

David Elkind

Elkind obtained his doctorate at UCLA and then spent a year as David Rapaport's research assistant at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

David Keilin

Keilin became research assistant to George Nuttall, first Quick Professor of Biology at the University of Cambridge, in 1915, and spent the rest of his career there, succeeding Nuttall as Quick Professor and director of the Molteno Institute in 1931.

David Lary

He then held post-doctoral research assistant and associate positions at the University of Cambridge until receiving a Royal Society research fellowship in 1996 (also at Cambridge).

English Place-Name Society

When Professor Bruce Dickins succeeded as Honorary Director the Society moved to the University of Cambridge and Miss Margaret Midgley (later Dr Margaret Gelling) was appointed Research Assistant.

George C. Stoney

He worked at the Henry Street Settlement House on the Lower East Side of NYC in 1938, as a field research assistant for Gunnar Myrdal and Ralph Bunche's project on Suffrage in the South in 1940, and as an information officer for the Farm Security Administration until he was drafted in 1942.

Glenda Green

Also during this period (1968–69) she worked at Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum as research assistant to the institution's director.

Günther K.H. Zupanc

Günther Zupanc was Research Assistant and Research Scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California (1987–92), Junior Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany (1992–97), Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) at the University of Manchester, U.K. (1997–2002), and Professor at the International University Bremen (now Jacobs University Bremen) (2002–09).

Hartley Booth

He resigned from his position as a Parliamentary Private Secretary in February 1994 after revelations that he had had a "friendship" with a former young research assistant, Emily Barr, who went on to be a successful journalist and novelist.

Institute for Creative Technologies

These include research professors, research associate professors and research assistant professors in Department of Computer Science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, the Interactive Media Division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine and the USC Davis School of Gerontology.

Iris Runge

After 1945, she taught at the adult education center in Spandau and was a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin.

James V. McConnell

In 1985, he suffered a hearing loss when a bomb, disguised as a manuscript, was opened at his house by his research assistant Nicklaus Suino.

John Mihaljevic

Mihaljevic served as James Tobin's research assistant from 1996–98 and worked with Professor Tobin to refine the Tobin's q estimation method.

Jonathan R. Steinberg

He clerked at the Law Firm of Steinberg, Richman, Greenstein and Price in Philadelphia and served as a Research Assistant at the American Law Institute, prior to serving as a Law Clerk for then Circuit Judge Warren E. Burger on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1963-64.

Jørgen Holmboe

In 1925, he was appointed research assistant to Professor Vilhelm Bjerknes, who had moved from Bergen where as founding director of the Geophysical Institute he had led development of the Bergen School of Meteorology.

Karl A. Grosch

In 1955, Grosch started his career as a research assistant at the MRPRA, under Adolf Schallamach.

Kate Michael

Michael worked for three years as a Research Assistant for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee under Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia.

Kazimierz Hajda

He was then employed as a lecturer and senior research assistant at the Department of Mechanics and Strength of Materials of the Warsaw University of Technology.

Leonor Michaelis

After receiving his medical degree, Michaelis worked as a private research assistant to Moritz Litten (1899–1902) and for Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1902–1906).

Marilyn McHarg

Prior to her work with MSF, McHarg was a registered nurse at Women's College Hospital and Sunnybrook Medical Centre in Toronto and a research assistant and laboratory technologist at St. Joseph's Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario and research assistant at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Max Rosenheim, Baron Rosenheim

In 1938 he was awarded the Bilton Pollard Travelling Fellowship and worked as research assistant for Dr Fuller Albright at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Meike Hoffmann

From 1990 to 1994 she was a research assistant at the Berlin gallery Theis and the Berlin Ceramics Museum.

Olaf Helmer

Helmer moved to the United States in 1937, first working as a research assistant to Rudolf Carnap at the University of Chicago, then as a teacher of mathematics.

Oskar Langendorff

After studying medicine in Wrocław (Breslau), Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau Langendorff obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Königsberg in 1875, subsequently working there as a research assistant.

Pallathadka Keshava Bhat

He has also worked as a Research Assistant in the Presidency College, Chennai (Earlier Madras)

Patricia Cardoso

Cardoso was a research assistant to Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers Terry Sanders and Freida Lee Mock.

Patrick Connors

While at St. John's, Connors was a member of the editorial board of the St. John's Law Review and a research assistant to David D. Siegel.

Philip Lieberman

In the late 1950s and in the 1960s he worked as a research assistant at MIT before serving in the United States Air Force and also carrying out research there at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (AFCRL) at Hanscom Air Force Base and also working at Haskins Laboratories.

Rachel Weston

As a graduate student she worked as a research assistant and with the Vermont Commission on Women and United Nations.

Rafiath Rashid Mithila

She then worked as a Research Assistant for BRAC, before moving to the USA to work as an intern for the Minnesota International Center.

Richard Hudson

He worked with Michael Halliday as research assistant on two projects at University College London: on the grammar of scientific English with Rodney Huddleston (1964–1967), and on Linguistics and English Teaching (1967–1970).

Simon Rushton

He completed his thesis - 'The United Nations Secretariat and Norm Entrepreneurship: The Promotion of Democracy in International Society' - in 2004 and subsequently joined the staff as a Research Assistant and later as lecturer.

Stephen Emmel

He began graduate study with James M. Robinson, who took Emmel with him to Cairo, Egypt, in 1974 as a research assistant in the international project to publish the Coptic Gnostic texts of the Nag Hammadi Codices.

Stephen Kinnock

After attending Drayton Manor High School, and having achieved a degree in Modern Languages from Queens' College, University of Cambridge and an MA from the College of Europe in 1993, Stephen Kinnock worked as a research assistant at the European Parliament in Brussels before becoming a British Council Development and Training Services executive based in Brussels from 1997.

Sysjail

sysjail was developed and released in 2006 by Kristaps Dzonsons (aka Johnson), a research assistant in Game theory at the Stockholm School of Economics, and Maikls Deksters.

Thomas O. Melia

Melia began his career as a research assistant to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-New York) in 1980 and eventually became Senior Legislative Assistant for foreign and defense policy.

Timothy Pauketat

After graduating from SIU with B.S. in Anthropology and Earth Sciences, he gained further field experience as a staff archaeologist with a cultural resource management firm, The Center for American Archaeology, at Kampsville, Illinois and as an assistant curator and research assistant for SIU-Carbondale from 1983-1984.

Tom Axworthy

In 1967, he worked as a research assistant for the Task Force on the Structure of the Canadian Economy, led by Walter Gordon.

Walter Jakob Gehring

He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Zurich in 1965 and after two years as a research assistant of Professor Ernst Hadorn he joined Professor Alan Garen's group at Yale University in New Haven as a postdoctoral fellow.

William G. Roll

In the 80s and 90s, Roll held various positions at University of West Georgia, including Professor of Psychology and Psychical Research, assistant professor, and instructor.