In an effort to address the needs of recruitment and retention of traditionally underrepresented students at the university, a central part of the SCCR academic mission is to support, train and promote students as researchers. Student research fellows are recruited to join projects by individual faculty and by the SCCR Associate Director. Once selected, research fellows are part of interdisciplinary research projects that provide undergraduate and graduate students with excellent opportunities to engage in serious intellectual work guided by senior faculty.
Fellows meet regularly with faculty to outline goals and assess research progress.
A student can assist in collecting and analyzing data, creating mathematical models, drafting articles for publication or conducting interviews in the field. Student Awards The Galarza Prize for Excellence in research is awarded each year to a graduate student and an undergraduate. The Arturo Islas, Jr. Prize for Academic Excellence is awarded to a senior whose accomplishments at Stanford best exemplify the intellectual interests, background, and values of the late Arturo Islas, Jr., who passed away in 1991. Professor Islas was a part of the Stanford community for most of his life, having been an undergraduate, a graduate student, and later a much-beloved professor. Those of us who teach and study Chicano literature owe him a great debt, for it was Professor Islas who, in the courses taught in the English Department, introduced Chicano literature into the Stanford curriculum.