Current Opportunities for the Academic Year Part-Time Undergraduate Research Fellow Program (2026–27)
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. Students who plan on studying abroad during this academic year are not eligible.
Political Economy of Representation Research
Mentor: Resuf Ahmed, Postdoctoral Fellow, King Center on Global Development
Explore how political representation shapes education, economic opportunity, and inequality in India using large datasets and causal inference methods
Climate Change and Gender Relations
Mentor: Alyssa Heinze, Postdoctoral Fellow, King Center on Global Development
Investigate how climate change reshapes gender inequality in rural India through text analysis, geospatial data, and research on agriculture and marriage outcomes
Uganda Education Data Digitization
Mentor: Tess Lallemant, Postdoctoral Fellow, King Center on Global Development
Help digitize national examination records to study how education policy shapes student outcomes, gender gaps in STEM, and economic opportunity in Uganda
Thirsting for Solutions
Mentor: Lucile Dehouck, Postdoctoral Fellow, King Center on Global Development
Combine machine learning and household survey data to examine how drinking water scarcity affects health, education, and daily life across Sub-Saharan Africa
The Politics of Education in Crisis, Conflict, and Post-Conflict Settings
Mentor: Shelby Carvalho, Postdoctoral Fellow, King Center on Global Development
Examine how conflict, displacement, and recovery shape education policies, refugee access to schooling, and reforms that promote peace
The Health Impacts from Pesticide Exposure Due to Monoculture Expansion in Costa Rica
Mentors: Erin Mordecai, Associate Professor of Biology, School of Humanities and Sciences; Emma Krasovich Southworth, PhD Student, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER), Doerr School of Sustainability
Co-mentor: Caroline Glidden, Basic Life Research Scientist, Department of Biology
Analyze health, agricultural, and land-use data to investigate the human health impacts of pesticide-intensive farming in Costa Rica
Vocational Schooling in Brazil
Mentor: Eric Bettinger, Conley DeAngelis Family Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education
Co-mentor: Maria Thereza Rios Hortencio, Research and Project Manager
Evaluate how vocational education and apprenticeship programs affect students’ employment and schooling outcomes in Brazil
Assessing the Effectiveness of Decentralization on Economic Development in the Middle East
Mentor: Lisa Blaydes, Professor of Political Science, School of Humanities and Sciences
Explore how administrative and political decentralization influences economic development in the Middle East and North Africa
Machine Learning Analysis of Clinical Signs with Mortality of Young Infants in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Mentor: Ivana Maric, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
Co-mentor: Gary Darmstadt, Sue Alvarez Professor of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, School of Medicine
Apply machine learning to a global WHO dataset to identify clinical signs associated with infant mortality and inform recommendations for newborn care
Monitoring Soil Carbon Storage Following Tropical Mangrove Restoration
Mentor: Alison Hoyt, Assistant Professor of Earth System Science, Doerr School of Sustainability
Co-mentor: Julie Shahan, PhD Student, Earth System Science, Doerr School of Sustainability
Analyze soil samples from restored tropical mangrove forests to understand carbon recovery and help inform ecosystem restoration and climate mitigation efforts
Women and Cattle Ranching in Latin America
Mentors: Gretchen Daily, Bing Professor of Environmental Science, School of Humanities and Sciences; Lily Colburn, PhD Student, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER), Doerr School of Sustainability
Review research in English and Spanish to explore women’s roles, experiences, and land-management decisions in Latin America’s cattle ranching sector
Women’s Representation and Authority in Indian Politics
Mentor: Soledad Prillaman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, School of Humanities and Sciences
Co-mentor: Somer Bryant, Research Program Manager
Use large datasets and statistical analysis to examine how electoral quotas shape women’s political representation and authority in India
Unintended Cost of Global Conservation
Mentors: Grant Miller, Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor, School of Medicine; Kimberly Babiarz, Senior Research Scholar
Co-mentor: Haojie Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Data Science
Investigate whether forest conservation policies in Brazil have unintended consequences for forced labor in the cattle ranching sector