The Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as (CEMELA) is an interdisciplinary, multi-university consortium focused on research and practice that addresses mathematics learning and teaching with Latino/a students in the United States. CEMELA is a Center for Learning and Teaching supported by the National Science Foundation (grant number ESI-0424983). Consortium members are The University of Arizona, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, and The University of New Mexico. At UCSC, CEMELA offers Ph.D. and Post-Doctoral fellowships through the Education Department for students and researchers in mathematics education. Further information about CEMELA at UCSC can be found at http://cemela.ucsc.edu, about the UCSC PhD in Education Program can be found at http://education.ucsc.edu further information about CEMELA can be found at http://cemela.math.arizona.edu.

The COSMOS Teacher Fellows program provides opportunities for outstanding high school teachers to participate in the UC Santa Cruz COSMOS summer program. Each Fellow works with a team of university faculty to implement the academic portion of COSMOS. Teacher Fellows serve as the pedagogical bridge between high school student learning and university faculty teaching. They directly participate in all classroom and laboratory work as well as field trips (Monday - Friday 8:30-4:30). They serve a valuable role as liaison between the residential and academic programs. Teacher Fellows may also be called upon to consult with faculty on course design, provide supplemental instruction, mentor students, and supervise course projects.

MentorNet's One-on-One Mentoring Programs focus on matching women and underrepresented minorities with female or male professionals from all sectors as mentors for one-on-one, email-based mentoring (e-mentoring) relationships. MentorNet proteges are in the engineering and science fields and are community college, undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs and untenured faculty. UC Santa Cruz partners with MentorNet to provide this service to UCSC students.

As an NSF "SURF" Fellow you will join a UCSC research team and will take part in a research effort under close faculty supervision. The first step will be to formulate the research problem, then learn the necessary techniques or strategies to vigorously pursue the problem during the summer's work. Ideally, significant results will be obtained that could be included in a research publication. We believe that students who participate in this program will mature considerably in their scientific outlook. Fellowships of $3,750.00 plus on-campus housing will be awarded.