Current Opportunities for the Summer Full-Time Undergraduate Research Fellow Program
Summer Quarter 2026 Full-Time Undergraduate Research Fellow Positions
The applications and project descriptions are posted on Stanford On- and Off-Campus Learning Opportunities (SOLO).
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.
The base stipend will be $8,500 with additional funding from financial aid, if needed and the student qualifies.
Opportunities
Infectious Diseases, Environment, Global Health, and Climate Change
Assistant Professor Jade Benjamin-Chung, SoM - Epidemiology and Population Health
We are seeking a research assistant to contribute to studies on on evidence-based global health interventions. The research assistant can contribute to different ongoing activities within the lab based on their interests. Current projects focus on housing health impacts, malaria prevention optimization, and climate resilience metrics.
Economic Development in the MENA Region
Professor Lisa Blaydes, H&S - Political Science Department
Countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have struggled to achieve levels of economic growth on par with emerging economies in other parts of the world. How can we characterize economic development trajectories in the MENA region?
Gender Reforms in Education Systems Worldwide
Associate Professor Patricia Bromley, Doerr - Social Science Division
Across the globe, education reforms are often promoted as tools for advancing gender equality. Yet strikingly, governments in some of the most women repressive societies adopt extensive education reforms that invoke gender rights. This project seeks to explain this phenomenon, while exploring how do governments around the world define “gender” and “gender rights” in reforms, and which particular dimensions do they prioritize or avoid, such as girls’ access to schooling, equality, workforce participation, or support for LGBTQ+ students.
Risk for Hospitalization and Mortality of Young Infants Based on Machine Learning Analysis of Demographic and Clinical Data From South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health, Professor Gary Darmstadt, SoM - Pediatrics Department
Apply machine learning to a novel WHO global dataset to define risk of mortality associated with clinical signs of illness in young infants.
From Contacts to Contracts: Rebuilding Social Capital for Refugee Entrepreneurs A Triadic Chat Design Testing Behavioral Mechanisms of Tie Formation (TRAVEL)
Professor Chuck Eesley, SoE - Management Science & Engineering Department
Field experiment testing how refugee entrepreneurs rebuild business networks: does helping with first contact or sustaining follow-up matter more? Summer 2026 in Uganda with ~450 participants.
Analysis of Stillbirth in South Asia
Assistant Professor Ivana Maric, SoM - Pediatrics Department
This project will use machine learning to identify risk factors and causes of stillbirth from verbal autopsies collected in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Cross-Border Migration and Health: Mapping Migration, Labor Conditions, and Emergent Health Needs Among Migrant Farmworker Families
Assistant Professor Preeti Panda, SoM- Emergency Medicine
Migrant agricultural worker families play a critical role in the U.S. food system, yet they face profound health, legal, and social vulnerabilities. This project seeks to understand the lived realities of migrant worker families originating in Mexico and pursuing agricultural sector work in California by examining three intersecting domains: child labor and schooling, emergency health needs and access to care, and the impacts of environmental exposures, and climate stressors on family health. This project will integrate literature review, secondary data analysis, and community-engaged research to improve health and well-being of migrant worker families.