Stevenson College Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program

APPLICATION DUE MARCH 7, 2022

Application here

Stevenson College is launching a new Research Apprenticeship Program for Stevenson students. Through this program, the Provost’s Office at Stevenson is partnering with a number of faculty on campus to provide paid research positions for spring quarter 2022. These positions will provide undergrads with research experience as well as personal and professional development.

The program is designed to inspire and prepare Stevenson students to pursue graduate studies or to consider non-academic careers that might draw on skills developed at UCSC.  As part of their mentorship, students will be employed as Research Assistants up to a maximum of $2000 during the spring quarter. The kind of work that you might end up doing varies depending on the field of research and the stage of the project.  Faculty participants also provide students with academic and professional guidance, advice about the process of applying to graduate schools, and serve as their mentors.

To learn more: please sign up for one of the upcoming lunches at the Stevenson Provost House. These events will all be held 1 - 2pm and a free lunch will be served.

• Thursday, February 24: Professor Rita Mehta, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Research fields: morphological, physiological and behavioral evolution; marine biology), https://mehta.eeb.ucsc.edu/ RSVP here
• Friday, February 25: Professor Dan Wirls, Politics (Research fields: American politics, institutions, public policy, and political history), https://politics.ucsc.edu/faculty/index.php?uid=wirls RSVP here
• Thursday, March 3: Sri Kurniawan, Computer Engineering/Computational Media (Research fields: interactive systems, software, robotics, disabilities), https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~srikur/ and Mircea Teodorescu, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Research fields: Dynamics, autonomous navigation, surface engineering, robotics, biomechanics), https://engineering.ucsc.edu/people/mteodorescu and https://danserlab.github.io/index.html RSVP here
• Friday, March 4: Steve McKay, Sociology (Research Fields: Filipino migration and labor in Watsonville; public history, labor, gender, migration, racial formation, and globalization),  https://wiith.ucsc.edu/ and https://stevenmckay.sites.ucsc.edu/ RSVP here
• Provost Matt O’Hara, History (Research Fields: Latin America, Mexico, religion, politics, history of medicine), https://history.ucsc.edu/about/admins.php?uid=mdohara is sponsoring a research apprenticeship too. He'll be hosting the lunches, so you can attend any date to hear a bit about his current projects.

Please note: you must be logged into your @ucsc.edu Google Drive to submit forms.