Darden Technical Research Assistant [Student Wage] (Remote)

Job description

Darden is hiring research assistants for Summer 2026 who will report directly to Darden faculty or the Office of Research Services. This posting is for multiple positions. Work may include cleaning and parsing data, web scraping, and data documentation. Potential topics include marketing, the economy, leadership characteristics, entrepreneurship, and other topics relevant to faculty research initiatives. Responsibilities: - Create data sets by researching publicly available information on companies or cities - Assist with preparation and storage of large datasets - Provide documentation on created datasets - Pull data from reports, the web, and other sources - Depending on position, work could include working with virtual machines and cloud platforms. - Other duties as assigned Skills and Abilities: UVA undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to apply. Position is open to students in business, accounting, economics, social sciences, humanities, statistics, math, computer science, data science, or other disciplines with strong programming and computational skills. - Ability to read through multiple reports, mine public databases, and distill information into a database (e...