Stanford Office of Science Outreach

Summer Research Program for Teachers

Stanford’s Summer Research Program for Teachers offers eight-week research fellowships for teachers of middle school, high school and community college in the San Francisco Bay Area. Teachers work in a Stanford lab four days a week, and meet once a week as a group for science and engineering lectures by Stanford faculty, lab tours, and seminars on teaching. Participants earn a stipend of $7,200 for the summer and an additional $1,000 grant after developing and testing new lessons with their students.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)

SLAC has an exciting program offering summer internships for undergraduates, and for more than thirty years has offered 20-25 students an eight-week paid internship at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in Menlo Park, California.

Stanford Summer Research Program/Amgen Scholars Program

The Stanford Summer Research Program in Biomedical Sciences/Amgen Scholars Program is an eight-week residential internship program. It offers undergraduates from across the country who want to prepare for and enter Ph.D. programs in biomedical sciences a unique opportunity for advanced research experience within a world-class university.

Research Internship at CPIMA

The Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies (CPIMA) provides qualified undergraduates in chemical engineering, chemistry, biochemistry, materials science, bioengineering, physics and related fields with a ten week summer research opportunity through its Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program.

Research Experience for Undergraduates in the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility

The Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (SNF) participates in the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) Research Experience for Undergraduates each summer which provides approximately 60 undergraduate students with ten-week internships working on mentored research projects at NNIN facilities. SNF hosts approximately 7 students.

RISE Summer Internship Program

The RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering) Summer Internship Program for HS Students is sponsored by the Office of Science Outreach. It’s an intensive 7-week summer program for students interested in science, engineering, math, and computer science. Students spend 30 hours a week on the Stanford campus, working in an active research lab under the guidance of a mentor from the lab (typically a graduate student), and attending weekly group sessions that include field trips, presentations, hands-on science activities, and lab tours.

Stanford draws students from only A HANDFUL OF PARTNER SCHOOLS in the Bay Area; students must be NOMINATED by their principal or teacher; they will then be invited to apply.

Earth Sciences High School Internship Program

At the School of Earth Sciences, high school students spend 8-12 weeks in the summer working in different laboratories, primarily in the Geological and Environmental Sciences department. The students work on research projects and are supervised directly by graduate students, post docs and lab managers. The application period is between the beginning of February and closes at the end of March. This program is very popular and does not accept any late applications.

Graduate student mentors from any discipline in science are encouraged to host a high school intern.

Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program

Stanford is a partner in the Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program (SR-EIP). This program, principally for underserved and underrepresented students, offers undergraduates the opportunity to work for eight to ten weeks under the guidance of a faculty or research mentor at participating Alliance institutions.

Stanford Medical Youth Science Program

The Stanford Medical Youth Science Program offers five weeks of intensive science and health training each summer for low income and under-represented high school students from northern and central California. Participants live together at Stanford, attend scientific lectures, complete anatomy laboratory practicums, intern at Stanford and Palo Alto hospitals, and learn about college entrance requirements, application procedures and financial aid. Program is free to the students; selection is based on an application process. THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS CLOSED FOR 2009.

SIMR - Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program

SIMR – The Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program, is for high school juniors and seniors interested in hands-on research in various fields of medicine (immunology, stem cell, cancer, neuroscience and cardiovascular medicine). This eight week program enables the selected students to take part in research, attend introductory lectures and to present their work at a poster session open to the Stanford community. THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS CLOSED FOR 2009.

Carnegie Undergraduate Summer Program

The Carnegie Institute Department of Biology offers summer research experiences to undergraduates from Stanford and other institutions (including local community colleges and state Universities). Students are expected to work full-time for 8-10 weeks during the summer.