Sara McConnell
IRB Administrator
Biography
Sara McConnell, BS, BA has been an IRB Administrator in the HSRP/IRB at Rutgers University since October 2023. She has a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Maryland, University College.
Her previous position was as a Faculty Research Assistant at the University of Maryland, where she spent many years working with the IRB as a researcher. She helped conduct research on the effects of nerve stimulation on language learning. She also helped curate data sets for the testing and evaluation of AI systems.
In her free time, Sara can be found crocheting and hanging out with her dog Zelda.