Graduate Specialist Program (New Brunswick Libraries)

Consulting Hours and Workshops offered by the Graduate Specialists are described in detail on separate tabs.  For topics, methods, and software training materials, consult the separate guides below:

• Data Science
• Digital Humanities
• Diversity in Data
• GIS
• Qualitative Methods

The New Brunswick Libraries Graduate Specialist Program provides opportunities for Rutgers-NB graduate students to use and develop their skills in a variety of methodologies while working with the Libraries to deliver consulting, workshops, and training.  Graduate Specialists are hired to provide support to researchers in topics and methods of growing importance in the scholarly world.  Graduate students hired as Graduate Specialists to help the Libraries expand the range of services offered by bringing advanced skillsets in the latest research methods and tools. Additionally, the Graduate Specialist Program helps the graduate students by giving them a place to prove and hone their skills by bringing services to researchers, gaining significant marketable experience along the way.

For Academic Year 2021-2022, our graduate specialists are:

• Aizada Arystanbek, Qualitative Methods and Diversity in Data Graduate Specialist (Fall 2021)
• Xu Guo, Qualitative Methods Graduate Specialist (Spring 2022)
• Wafa Isfahani, Digital Humanities Graduate Specialist
• Burcu Kolcak, Diversity in Data Graduate Specialist
• Katherine Lee, Diversity in Data Graduate Specialist
• Robert Palmere, Data Science Graduate Specialist
• Daniel H. Smith, Teaching and Learning Graduate Specialist
• Robert Young, Data Science Graduate Specialist

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