Opportunities

The Educational Opportunity Project (EOP) is a research project using data to inform education policy and impact educational opportunity.

The goal of this project and book is to analyze the history and politics of the Central Coasts region's water problems and to shape a narrative for a better understanding of water as part and parcel of the climate change debate.

Our Voice is a global research initiative that aims to provide community members from all backgrounds, cultures, and walks of life with the skills and support to help improve local environments to advance health equity.

The Lung is a Bird and Fish, analyzes the history of the discovery of air, and specifically, of human and animal respiration, based on archival research including medical reports, patents, visual cultures, and literature.

This project examines how gentrification affects low-income residents' residential stability before and beyond displacement and how this varies by race in the Bay Area.

The book is about the proliferation of coercive addiction treatment centers in Mexico city and how these centers have transformed into sanctuary spaces for teenagers and young adults at risk of criminal violence.

One reason for the lack of affordable housing in the Bay Area for low-income families seems to be a result of communities perceiving affordable housing in a negative light and taking action to prevent affordable housing from being built.

The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies sponsors undergraduate internships with leading French-based institutions through the Global Studies Internship Program.

When a high-poverty city or county has run out of services to cut, properties to sell, bills to defer, and risky loans to take, what should its leaders do to ameliorate the harms of concentrated poverty?

The France-Stanford Center sponsors undergraduate internships with leading French institutions through the Global Studies Internship Program. Program is open to undergraduate students interested in undertaking research in France.

The France-Stanford Center offers more than $200,000 in annual funding for research projects bringing together scholars and students based in French Institutions and Stanford University.

Fund your passion! Do you have an unpaid opportunity during Winter Quarter 2022 and need funding? The BEAM Fellows Stipend Program provides up to $2,250 for students who have secured part time unpaid internships, externships, or projects.

Awards eligible Stanford Students a summer stipend for 10 weeks of full-time research, and offers a comprehensive experience including: weekly faculty talks, workshops, journal club meetings, and a culminating showcase event.

The Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance Undergraduate Research Program is an opportunity open to all undergraduate students to explore the field of human performance through a research experience.

The Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge offers cash prizes and free entrepreneur mentorship in a competition open to all university students globally who want to design products and services which help people live long and healthy lives.

The Chevron Fellowship supports PhD graduate research students focused on energy research. Proposals should focus on realizing scalable innovation in upstream, midstream, downstream in oil and gas production, and energy transition technologies. 

Graduate Student Research Funding supports faculty-supervised Stanford doctoral student research activities, particularly field-based work on global poverty and economic development in middle- and low-income countries. 

This research explores the political and economic effects of an intervention fighting migrant labor exploitation.

This research aims to deepen & broaden quantitative & qualitative research on the historical & evolving roles of public & private organizations in testing & caring for COVID-19 patients, delivery of vaccines & in emergency medical services.

This opportunity is open to Stanford students with both undergraduate and graduate status in all majors.