UNDERGRADUATE LINGUISTICS RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS FOR SUMMER 2008

The Department of Linguistics will offer a small number of undergraduate research internships for the summer of 2008. Funding comes from the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE). The primary purpose of the internships is to provide opportunities for undergraduates to work closely with faculty on faculty-led research and scholarship. These internships are exclusively for Stanford undergraduates.

Here are the Summer 2008 project descriptions.

Eligibility: Only Stanford University undergraduates may apply. Linguistics majors with relevant skills for the internship are preferred, but students from other majors may apply if they have the needed skills. The program is intended for juniors and sophomores. Interns must be in good academic standing and must have taken any courses the faculty investigator considers relevant for the internship. It is expected that both the faculty mentor and the intern will be on campus during the internship period (late June through late August).

Pay and commitment for full-time interns: Internships come with a full-time stipend of $5200 ($13 per hour), paid by funding from VPUE. Full time is 40 hours per week for 10 summer weeks. (We are willing to also consider internships for 40 hours per week for 8 summer weeks with a stipend of $4160.) Interns and their faculty mentors will attend bi-weekly lunch meetings to informally update those in other Linguistics summer research projects on the work they are conducting and on possible issues they are facing.

Interns will be asked to submit their findings, summarizing the work done and any conclusions or thoughts about next questions for research, at an informal Department presentation early in the 2008 Autumn Quarter.

Interns will also be eligible to present their work as a poster at the annual Symposium of Undergraduate Research in Progress (SURP), typically held at the beginning of Alumni Homecoming weekend in October.

Summer Research College option: Full-time summer research interns are eligible for the Summer Research College, which offers residence-based programs to support and enhance research.

If you are interested in one or more of these projects, please send a the following to Arto Anttila () and Diane Jakubowski () BY FRIDAY, MARCH 14:
1. A ranked list of three internships,
2. A few sentences explaining what background and qualifications you would bring to each internship that interests you,
3. Optional: Your CV, if available.

Undergraduates are encouraged to talk with the faculty mentors to find out more about particular research projects before submitting their preferences.