Information for Faculty

We encourage all faculty to attend the poster session, to engage with the student presenters, and to help to stimulate discussion among Symposium participants. For a schedule of the afternoon, please click here.

Students are asked to identify their faculty advisor(s) when they apply to present at the Symposium (click here for information on the application process), and all student presentations require prior endorsement by the faculty advisor in order to be accepted into the Symposium. The Undergraduate Research Programs (URP) office will send an email to the faculty advisor soliciting her/his endorsement for the student's participation in SURPS. The faculty endorsement is required in recognition of the fact that many undergraduate projects are highly collaborative and are integral part of a faculty member's larger research project. Faculty endorsement thus means that the faculty supervisor approves of the undergraduate's presentation and authorship of the project and results. We encourage faculty to contact the URP office with questions relating to the endorsement process: urp@vpue.stanford.edu

Faculty advisors will be listed along with their students' projects in the printed Symposium program and in the web publication of student abstracts and creative statements.

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Thank you for your support of SURPS.

Information for Advisors

Many academic advisors have expressed an interest in making a visit to Symposium one of their central fall-quarter advising group activities. Undergraduate Advising and Research has designed this list of activities to enhance students' experiences at the Symposium. Please include your Peer Mentor in the planning of your group's visit to the Symposium.

• Making the Symposium a Forum for Active Inquiry
When you arrive at Arrillaga, spend 5 minutes together reviewing the program and have each advisee identify three or four poster or oral presentations that are particularly appealing to her/him. Provide your students with the User's Guide to Exploring Research Opportunities at SURPS, a set of questions and topics that students new to research and public service may want to pose to Symposium presenters as they visit posters and talks.

• Meet Post-Symposium for Conversation
Plan to meet, perhaps in Arrillaga's café for coffee and refreshments, after your students' visit to the Symposium to discuss what they observed, learned, and would like to follow up on.

Follow-up Resources and Strategies

For Your Advisees Who Cannot Attend.
Please send an email with the SURPS web address, and encourage them to explore online the program, project abstracts, and student narratives of how they got involved in their current projects. Encourage them to think about how their own interests might lead them into research.

Informing Your Students of Research and Haas Center Deadlines and Events
Make a point of sending your students emails throughout the year about deadlines for student research, creative arts, and service project proposals, workshops, and related events posted on the UAR and Haas Center web pages:

• Upcoming UAR events and deadlines
• Upcoming Haas Center events and deadlines
• Preparatory university-wide course offerings and workshops
• Honors thesis support
• The Public Service Scholars Program

Helping Advisees to Identify and Approach Faculty Sponsors TOP

Please feel free to distribute this document to advisees and add your own strategies for identifying and approaching a potential research mentor. Other helpful links:

• Faculty Research Directory
• IIS Website (iis.stanford.edu)
• Departmental and Faculty Websites
• Stanford Libraries (www.stanford.edu/home/libraries)

Provide a Sounding Board for Project Ideas and Faculty Conversation

If advisees can practice speaking about their idea with you before they approach their potential research mentor they’ll have the confidence they need to make a compelling presentation to a faculty member.