Job Details

Primary research responsibilities include working with your advisors (Drs. Zac Carlson and Miranda Meehan) on research projects within the research program. This involves leading data collection, analysis, and preparing manuscripts for publication. Responsibilities include daily feeding and managing livestock during experiments, organizing sample collections, recording research data, conducting laboratory and statistical data analyses, and preparing research summaries, including your MS project. During your MS program, you will also assist with other research projects related to your advisors' research programs. Graduate research assistantships at 20 hours per week are allocated for work related to the broader research program, with the remaining 20 hours dedicated to your MS-focused efforts.

You must complete MS degree requirements as outlined in the NDSU Graduate Bulletin and the Animal Sciences Graduate Student Handbook. Maintaining an appropriate GPA, creating a study plan, and establishing your supervisory committee by the end of your first semester are expected. You will need to present a thesis to your graduate committee, with manuscripts prepared in formats acceptable for publication in the Journal of Animal Science or other peer-reviewed journals, as agreed with your advisor.

You will also assist with Extension and outreach efforts related to ruminant nutrition and grazing systems. Responsibilities include participating in stakeholder meetings, presenting at meetings and workshops, and helping develop educational materials.

Advisors: Zachary Carlson and Miranda Meehan

Assistantship durations may vary and depend on funding availability. Terms of duties and responsibilities will be detailed in the graduate assistantship contract.

Students must be registered for graduate credit each semester (fall and spring) they receive an assistantship, be in good academic standing, and make satisfactory progress toward their degree. International students must also maintain the appropriate residency status.

If English is not your native language, you must demonstrate English proficiency (see "English Language Proficiency Procedures for Graduate Teaching Assistants").

Students offered a graduate teaching or service assistantship must consent to a criminal background check, including those teaching in labs.

Students on Academic Warning may retain their assistantship, but those on Probation may not.

Annual training must be completed within 30 days of the start date and every year thereafter.