Undergraduate Job Opportunities

• Advise first & sometimes second year students on course selection on general education and electives.
• Answer basic registration questions during registration periods. 
• Provide Prospective and Admitted students insight and experience on being a University of Illinois Biology student through Office of Admissions Events
• Assist underclassmen in the transition to Illinois as a mentor to first-year students.
• Are outstanding students who know how to succeed and get involved on campus, so please reach out by emailing ibpeerleaders@sib.illinois.edu or make an appointment.
• Serve as a think tank and provide feedback to the School on various topics that concern IB students.

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• First interaction within advising suite, serving as the face of IB Advising
• Help students with general advising appointment scheduling questions
• Monitor the professional and paraprofessional advising bookings calendar to check students in and notify appropriate staff
• Open and close the advising office by preparing the office for the day and closing it down at 5PM

• Peer Leaders helps with general administrative tasks and occasionally helps develop content for IB Career Connections or IB Info & Opportunities Newsletter, when not working with students

There are many events throughout the year in which IB Peer Leaders play a vital role in the recruitment of prospective high school students or prospective majors on campus. During these recruitment events, IB Peer Leaders will be speaking individually with prospective students or participating in a student panel for a small group of prospective students and their parents. In the past, the contribution of IB Peer Leaders have proven to be the most valuable aspect of the recruitment process. 

• Classroom assistants (CAs) will be active participants with the course instructors. Possible duties include weekly prep meetings, attending lectures and/or discussions/lab sections, and/or holding office hours/tutoring sessions. CAs will learn how to and practice acting as facilitators for active learning activities. As needed (e.g., before exams), classroom assistants may also hold additional office hours and act as exam proctors. For IB 203 specifically, CAs may also drive vehicles for labs.
• Classroom assistants will NOT be responsible for grading.
• Students must have completed one or more of the following classes:  IB 104, IB 150, IB 151, IB 202, IB 203, IB 204, IB 302, IB 303, or IB 361.
• Students must be able to commit to working 6-20 hours per week. Students will submit timesheets based on working hours.

Undergraduate Research Assistant 

Many undergraduate students in the Integrative Biology major carry out undergraduate research. IB offers students the opportunity of participating in the research being conducted in the laboratories of its faculty members and other affiliated researchers. This may involve anything from collecting data in the field to doing experiments in the lab. It may involve assisting a faculty member, postdoc, or senior graduate student with ongoing experiments or may involve independent research no one has ever undertaken before. There are both paid and unpaid research opportunities within IB. 

• Students who are selected for this position will be assigned to a research lab. That lab will provide the exact duties.
• Students need to be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd year
• Students must be eligible for the federal work-study program
• Students need to be able to commit to working 6-20 hours per week in the lab of an SIB faculty member

Find out more information on how to involved in research with the link below!

Research

• Set up lab equipment and prepare materials used in the labs associated with IB 104, 151, 202, 203, 204, and 302
• Learn valuable lab safety techniques and proper chemical and biological waste disposal procedures
• Care for the SIB teaching animals (mainly invertebrates), including daily feeding and aquarium/cage maintenance
• Build a resume by gaining valuable lab experience
• Work Study students are highly encouraged to apply
• Experience maintaining salt water or reef aquariums is also encouraged, though not necessary
• Applicants must be able to work at least 5-10 hours a week