Cox Medal

Allan V. Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research

The Stanford community is invited to submit nominations for the Allan V. Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research at Stanford University. Since 1988, the Cox Medal has been awarded annually to a faculty member who has established a record of excellence directing undergraduate research over a number of years. It may also go to a faculty member who has done an especially outstanding job with just one or two undergraduates whose work is unusually superior. All university faculty are eligible to be nominated; however, due to the number of exceptional nominations received each year, previous recipients aren’t eligible to be nominated again.

To view a list of previous winners, please click here.

To nominate a professor, please click here.

Letters of nomination must be submitted online at the website above; nominations are considered for two years. The deadline for Cox Medal nominations is Sunday, April 22, 2012. The medal is awarded during Commencement weekend, with the winner receiving a citation, engraved medal, and prize check.

The Cox award commemorates the late Allan Cox, a professor of geophysics and dean of the School of Earth Sciences. He is widely known as the co-discoverer of magnetic field reversals. When the Cox Medal was established, it was stated that “in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it was Cox, more than any other Stanford faculty member, who extolled the virtue of research programs such as those pioneered at MIT. He encouraged professors to adopt the same goals and provide similar opportunities to undergraduates here. His energy led to increased funding and support for faculty-student collaboration in research.”