Joint and Dual MS Research Assistantships

E-IPER provides opportunities for Joint and Dual MS students to work as research assistants on faculty mentored, individualized environment, energy, and sustainability research. Through this offering, E-IPER aims to encourage and accelerate collaboration among faculty scholars, their labs, and the MS students as emerging practitioners.

We anticipate awarding Research Assistantships (RAships) annually, each of which will support one project. The funding will include a one-quarter 25% RAship (salary + associated tuition) supporting approximately 10 hours of research work/week. RAships are currently offered only in Spring Quarter.

Research Assistantship Projects

Joint and Dual MS students have the unique opportunity to work with faculty from the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, School of Engineering, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford Law School, Stanford Woods Institute, and Precourt Institute for Energy on specialized projects. Listed below are the projects for Spring Quarter 2025. Detailed project descriptions are available in the Joint and Dual MS student resource folder. 

• Michelle Wilde Anderson | Understanding the Relationship Between Inequality and Climate Change
• Larry Crowder | Charting Shared Waters: Building Cooperative Frameworks for High Seas Resource Management
• Desiree LaBeaud | Exploring Plastics, Pathogens, and Contaminants in Black Soldier Fly (BSF) Farming: A Preliminary Literature Review, Case Data Analysis, and Artistic Exploration
• Jim Leape | Analyzing Blue Foods in Nationally Determined Contributions
• Ariel Evan Mayse | Spiritual Biodiversity Network
• Roz Naylor | Assessing Chemical Contamination in Animal- and Plant-based Meat Products to Maximize U.S. Food Safety and Sustainability
• Khalid Osman | Strengthening Community Self-Advocacy Through Ecosystem Services Evaluation
• Khalid Osman | A Study of Patient and Environmental Factors that Drive Kidney Stone Disease in the Wet Zone of Sri Lanka
• William Tarpeh | Benchmarking Ion Selective Membranes for Lithium Recovery
• Gabrielle Wong-Parodi | Our Communities, Our Bay

Based in a faculty member’s research area, this RAship initiative is intended to leverage the practice-oriented lens of the E-IPER Joint and Dual MS students, and augment their course-based learning with research experiences. This RAship will bring together interested faculty from across Stanford's seven schools with E-IPER MS students on applications of research in actionable, meaningful practice.

With generous support from the Ann and Reid Buckley Fund as well as the Emmett Fund, all research areas of interest to E-IPER students and faculty are eligible for RAships.