Teaching Positions

Application forms are available here:

Fall 2025 Neuro 101 tutorials

The Harvard undergraduate Neuroscience concentration is hiring new instructors to teach our Neuroscience seminar courses for the Fall 2025 semester. Instructors have the opportunity to create and teach a course on a topic in neuroscience of their choosing. The courses meet just once a week (2 hours) and emphasize reading, presenting, and discussing scientific literature (like a journal club but with interspersed lectures to provide background for the articles). The courses are small (<12 students) with a great deal of rewarding, personalized instruction. More details and the official application are attached.

This is an excellent opportunity to gain teaching experience, pilot ideas for future courses, interact with the undergraduate community, and earn extra money along the way (stipend ~$13,150).

Tutors usually take on this teaching responsibility in addition to their own research duties and position responsibilities. If you are interested, please complete the application (instructions are here) and return it to Dr. Laura Magnotti by Friday, January 17, 2025.

Please note:

– If you are supported by a NIH-NIGMS Fellowship, you cannot be paid for teaching.

– If you are on a H-1B visa, you cannot teach.

Feel free to email Dr. Magnotti (magnotti@fas.harvard.edu) with any questions.

Now Hiring Teaching Fellows/Teaching Assistants!

Spring 2025

Life Sciences 1b: An Integrated Introduction to Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution

Topics: Mendelian genetics, epigenetics, quantitative genetics, and population genetics

Time commitment: 0.4 FTE

Compensation: $11,720 ($1,116 bi-weekly); For G3 and above: $13,150 ($1,252 bi-weekly)

Course Description:

Life Sciences 1b is a spring-semester course that integrates molecular biology, genetics, genomics and evolution. The course is a large, introductory course where many enrolled students are first-year undergraduates. This course takes an integrated approach, showing how genetics and evolution are intimately related, together explaining the patterns of genetic variation we see in nature, and how genomics can be used to analyze variation. The focus of this course is on the fundamental features of Mendelian genetics, epigenetics, quantitative genetics, and population genetics.

Teaching Fellow Responsibilities:

Dates: End of January – beginning of May 2025
Lead a combined teaching section & lab – 3hr/week
Attend weekly staff meetings – 1hr/week
Attend lectures – 3.75hr/week (location: Science Center, Harvard Cambridge Campus)
Hold office hours – 1hr/week (preferably in-person, remote possible)
Grade lab assignments and problem sets (exams are graded by external graders)
Sign up for additional duties during exams (proctoring, extra office hours, etc.)

For questions/to apply, email lsci1b@fas.harvard.edu

To apply, please include your CV to schedule an interview.

*Hiring is on a rolling basis, Sept-Dec. Final hiring contingent on student enrollment.

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