APPLICATIONS DUE March 15th, 2025

Who is Eligible:

• Teachers must have taught for at least two years by the end of the 2024-2025 school year.

• Applicants must hold a current California teaching credential for science at the secondary level

• Teachers must be committed to teaching science to students in at least one grade level between 7-12 for the 2025-26 school year.

• Applicants teach within the greater Bay Area and are able to commute to the Stanford campus daily in the summer.

We are particularly interested in:

• Teachers who work with underserved students.

• Teachers who work in under-resourced schools, including those in rural and urban communities.

• Teachers who are committed to improving instructional outcomes for all students in their science classrooms.

• Teachers who want to engage in the translation of cutting edge research into meaningful learning experiences for their students.

​How are participants compensated:

• Participants are eligible for a variety of financial support including:

  • Up to $8,000 in stipends paid throughout the program.

    • Summer: $6,000 for participating in the summer research experience, professional learning days, and completing the summer survey.

    • Fall: $1,300 for presenting research at the B-SURP Poster Symposium, developing an Education Transfer Plan, and engaging in 2 coaching sessions during the fall semester.

    • Spring: $700 for engaging in 2 coaching sessions and completing the end of program survey during the spring semester.

  • $2,600 in classroom supply funds to purchase materials, equipment, software, or other supplies for developing classroom instruction and experiments.

  • Up to 7 Continuing Education Units that cost $75, which can be deducted from the classroom supply funds.

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How will I spend my time in this program if I’m selected? 

• During the 6 week summer experience, you’ll spend about 20-25 hours per week working on your research project, and you will spend ~15 hours a week engaged in building your pedagogical skills and creating activities to take back to your classroom. 

• During the school year, you will spend about 1 hour per month engaged in instructional coaching that focuses on your classroom practice. 

Would I need to commute to Stanford every day during the summer experience? 

• You’ll be working in your lab ~4 days per week. You will coordinate with your mentor about the specific times and days that you are in the lab. 

• One day a week, we will be doing virtual professional development which can either be done from your lab or from home. 

Would I need to pay for parking when I come to campus? 

• You will need to pay for getting to campus. If you choose to drive to campus, we will provide you with a parking pass for the summer.

Why does this program continue during the school year, if the research experience ends during the summer? 

• We firmly believe that transformative professional development is on-going, and we want to support you when you apply what you’ve learned in the summer to your classroom practice. We also know that the school year is busy, so we will only engage in 4 remote coaching sessions which will take ~8 hours of your time over the year. Additionally, labs will continue to engage with their teacher during the school year through lab visits to classrooms.

2024-2025 Labs: 

• Christopher Barnes, Structural Biology: The Barnes laboratory investigates viral-host interactions and translates knowledge into the rational development of highly protective antibodies.

• Jonas Cremer, Quantitative Microbiology: The Cremer lab combines experiments and mathematical modeling to investigate the growth behavior of different gut bacteria.  

• Rodolfo Dirzo, Evolutionary Ecology: This lab team examines the ecological forces that determine the patterns of plant-animal interactions and how these interactions are modified by environmental change.

• Lauren O’Connell, Organismal Biology: The O’Connell lab is focused on how interspecies interactions evolve in the context of acquired chemical defenses. 

• Kabir Peay, Fungal Ecology: The Peay lab studies the interconnectedness of nature created by fungal symbioses, and the ways in which these symbioses sustain ecosystems and maintain biodiversity.

• Naima Sharaf, Structural Biology: The Sharaf lab uses biophysical tools to characterize the structure and function of bacterial proteins, including membrane proteins and lipoproteins. 

2023-2024 Labs

• Jonas Cremer, Quantitative Microbiology: The Cremer lab combines experiments and mathematical modeling to investigate the growth behavior of different gut bacteria.  

• Rodolfo Dirzo, Evolutionary Ecology: This lab team examines the ecological forces that determine the patterns of plant-animal interactions and how these interactions are modified by environmental change. 

• Elizabeth Hadly, Global Change Biology: The Hadly lab specializes in researching and communicating about how people are changing the living world. 

• Erin Mordecai, Disease Ecology: The Mordecai lab studies the ecology of infectious disease by combining mathematical models with empirical studies. 

• Lauren O’Connell, Organismal Biology: The O’Connell lab is focused on how interspecies interactions evolve in the context of acquired chemical defenses. 

• Molly Schumer, Evolutionary Biology: The Schumer lab studies how hybridization, or genetic exchange between species, impacts basic evolutionary and genetic processes.

• Justin Du Bois, Chemistry: Research in the Du Bois laboratory spans reaction methods development, natural product synthesis, and chemical biology, and draws on expertise in molecular design, molecular recognition, and physical organic chemistry.