The Department of Developmental Biology has a limited amount of funding from the VPUE Summer Undergraduate Research Program to support 10-week research projects in Summer 2024. The funds provide a full stipend for the summer quarter.

Eligibility and Requirements

The program is open to current Stanford undergraduates who are enrolled in studies for both Winter 2024 and Spring 2024. Grantees may not receive any credits or other funding for the research project, may not enroll in more than 5 units of summer coursework, and may not work more 10 hours per week outside of the project. Additionally, the grant may not be used to support an honor’s thesis project.

There will be three meetings in the 1st, 4th and 10th weeks of summer quarter. You and your mentor are expected to attend all three meetings, and will you be required to present a project update at the midterm meeting and give a final presentation at the last meeting.

How to Apply

Interested students should email Prof. Alistair Boettiger with the following information:

1) Host Lab

2) Project title

3) Short description of project (2-4 sentences)

4) Your class year

5) Your SUNetID

6) Your Email

7) Mentor’s name and email (often a grad student or postdoc trainee)

8) If the nomination/application is sent by the student, please ask the PI of your host lab to email Alistair a confirmation, stating they support the application and agree to host the student if funded.

Summer Quarter are due April 19th, 2024.

You should hear back by May 6th .