The Resident Assistant is a member of the Residence Life and Housing Operations team. These staff members are crucial to the daily operations of the residence halls. "(Resident Assistants are) trained peer leaders who coordinate activities in residence halls in colleges and universities, mental health and substance abuse residential facilities, or similar establishments". Roles and responsibilities: building a residential community through programming, acting as a mentor for students, being a familiar first resource for students with academic or institutional questions, and enforcing residence policies. RAs assist residents with problem solving or refer them to counseling resources.

-Assisted on the testing of certain synthetic Ionic (organic) compounds in their ability to distort, preserve, or in general interact with different kinds of DNA at different temperatures. -Practiced performing and analyzing enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(s) (ELiSAs) from different manufacturers.