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Award Name: Allan Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research

The Cox award was established in memory of Allan Cox who was a Professor of Geophysics and Dean of the School of Earth Sciences. In the late 1970s and early 1980s it was Allan Cox, more than any of the faculty person at Stanford, who described the virtues of the research programs at MIT and elsewhere and stimulated Stanford faculty to provide such opportunities to its undergraduates. Cox provided the energy which led to increased funding and support for faculty-student collaboration in research. Allan Cox was world renowned as the co-discoverer of magnetic field reversals. He was also a strong advocate of student participation in individual scholarship.

Award Type: A bronze medal and cash award

Eligibility: Faculty from any school in the University are eligible. Faculty may be at any point in their academic careers.

Criteria: The Cox medal is awarded to a faculty person 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.

Awarded annually; presented at the Firestone/ Golden Medal Award Ceremony during graduation weekend.