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Current Opportunities for the Academic Year Part-Time Undergraduate Research Fellow Program (2024-25)

Academic Year Part-Time Undergraduate Research Fellow Positions

The applications and project descriptions are posted in Stanford On- and Off-Campus Learning Opportunities (SOLO) and are linked to the research project titles below. 

Students may apply to as many projects as they would like but must apply to each project separately since the faculty mentors manage their own selection processes. 

Students must be enrolled full-time in order to participate. 

Apply by Tuesday, October 1 at 11:59pm.

Projects: 

  • Environmental interventions to improve maternal and child health in rural Bangladesh
    Assistant Professor Jade Benjamin-Chung, SoM - Epidemiology and Population Health
    This research investigates environmental interventions to promote maternal and child health and climate change resilience in rural Bangladesh.
  • Economic Inequality in the Arab Gulf States
    Professor Lisa Blaydes, H&S - Political Science Department
    60 million people live in the Arab Gulf region, about half of whom are expatriate workers. How can we understand forms of economic inequality in countries like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia?
  • Culture, Agency and Water: Projects on the Economic Development of the Middle East and North Africa
    Dr. Giulia Buccione, King Center on Global Development - Economics
    Support research agenda investigating socio-economic challenges of the MENA region: field experiments to address water scarcity in Egypt and Jordan, and reduce religious tension in Lebanon; comparative economic history.
  • Preventing dementia in India: Digital tools to deliver region-specific lifestyle interventions
    Senior Fellow Karen Eggleston, DoR - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI)
    Help co-design, pilot, and assess digital tools to disseminate resources about lifestyle interventions to prevent dementia in India
  • Extracting Insights for Political Economy Reseach using Advanced AI Methods
    Dr. Ashrakat Elshehawy, King Center on Global Development 
    The research projects aim at using innovative National Language Processing and Machine Learning methods for research on the Political Economy of Development, touching on topics related to education, refugee integration, and health.
  • The Role of Emotional Ability in Creating New Ideas
    Dr. Saloni Gupta, DoR - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
    As part of a large scale randomized control trial in collaboration with a state government in India, I am studying the role of emotional perceptiveness that can make teams more productive in generating more effective innovation. We will be using the data that has already been collected to analyze the role of emotional ability on peer effects.
  • Mitigating Conflict and Polarization
    Associate Professor Saumitra Jha, GSB - Political Economy
    This project will involve studying organizational and economic approaches to mitigating violent conflict and political polarization, both historically and in contemporary settings. This includes studying nonviolent civil disobedience, financial approaches and the role of economics.
  • Sand, Sustainability and Gender
    Dr. Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Doerr - Earth System Science
    Exploring the impacts of sand mining on sustainability and gender equity, with a focus on inclusive governance mechanisms.
  • Stroke epidemiology and biomarker determinants to advance equitable care in Kenyan populations
    Associate Professor and Global and Population Health Research Director Christine Ngaruiya, SoM - Medicine Department
    Global stroke burden is increasing at an alarming rate in low- and middle-income country contexts such as in Africa, and Kenya, the site of this study. We are proposing a stroke epidemiological study including clinical, radiologic and novel biomarker assessment in a subset of marginalized patients in Kenya. We will be delighted to bring on board an enthusiastic student who is keen on public health, learning more/ engaging with work in Africa, and interested in being a part of narrowing health inequity for an important clinical condition.
  • Projects in Development Economics
    Dr. Nicholas Swanson, King Center on Global Development
    Projects include 1) understanding what limits the diffusion of profitable new agricultural technologies in developing countries and whether employers in developing countries to hire their family members as employees is partially driven by social norms and family pressure, and finally a project that investigates whether “earned wage access” is beneficial or not for low-income workers.
  • Climate Driven Arbovirus Epidemiology
    Postdoctoral Fellow Alessandro Zulli, Doerr - Oceans Department
    This project will seek to develop a probe-based hybridization panel for the environmental detection of climate-associated pathogens in Africa/Mexico.