TCNJ’s Alcohol Lab is a great opportunity to engage in collaborative research outside of the traditional classroom model. Lab members, aside from weekly lab meetings, typically work about 12 hours per week (including weekends) and participate in the following learning activities and lab responsibilities:

Training programs in animal welfare, human subjects protection, and laboratory procedures
Data collection, entry, and analysis
Health care and maintenance of laboratory rats
Laboratory and animal facility cleaning
Reading of, writing about, and discussion of relevant journal articles to advance understanding of alcohol and other drug abuse

Typical Lab Day

Currently, the Alcohol Lab conducts operant sessions with a group of 16 animal subjects. There are four rounds of sessions per day with four animal subjects each round. Each day there are four scheduled shifts of students that have to complete designated tasks. A typical day (per shift) in the Alcohol Lab is as follows:

9:30 AM Shift