PHYS - FWS Undergraduate Student UTA (Student Wage)

The Department of Physics is looking to hire Federal Work Study Undergraduate Students to work as Undergraduate Teaching Assistants for the 2025-2026 school year.

The undergraduate teaching assistant in the lab (UTA) will be participating in the weekly training sessions, and is responsible for conducting the introductory labs for 2 sections per week (26 students in each) and holding office hours. During the training they develop skills and knowledge necessary to teach the lab the following week, and during the sections and office hours they are helping students to arrive at correct solutions to given problems, helping students to design their own experiment, collect the data, and perform the data analysis.

This position will run from Aug 28, 2025 till May 10, 2026.

Compensation will take the form of wages at $15.00/hr.

Attach a current resume.

Questions should be directed to Maxim Bychkov at mab3ed@virginia.edu.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: Current UVA student
Experience: None
Licensure: None

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PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.

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