Frequently Asked Questions

While we appreciate your interest in CCARE, our administrative office and staff are not able to accommodate walk-in visitors. If you have a specific inquiry, please visit our Contact Us page to get in touch with one of our staff members.

We have a special paid fellowship known as the CCARE Undergraduate Roscow Fellowship. Fellows should be interested in fields related to compassion, altruism, empathy and social connectedness. Fellows are an integral part of the CCARE team and their responsibilities include administrative, event, research and communications support. They should be enthusiastic about supporting CCARE and able to dedicate at least 10 hours a week for a minimum of two quarters.

At this time, we are not accepting applications. Please send all inquiries through our Contact Us page.

Thank you for your enthusiasm and generous interest in volunteering! While CCARE does not administer a formal volunteer program, we will announce future opportunities in our newsletter. You may enroll to receive the CCARE Newsletter by entering your email address in the “JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER” box at the bottom left of our homepage.

You may also want to take one of our Compassion Training classes. Please help spread the word about our research and education programs with your friends and family. We’d love for you to bring a friend or family member to one of our public talks. Or, help us increase the amount of compassion in our communities by taking a Compassion Training class with a friend.

Thank you for your interest in CCARE internships. While we are not currently accepting applications for internships, we will announce future opportunities in our newsletter. You may subscribe to the CCARE Newsletter by entering your email address in the “JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER ” box at the bottom left of our homepage.

You can help spread the word about our research and education programs. We’d love for you to bring a friend or family member to one of our public talks. Or, help us increase the amount of compassion in our communities by taking one of our Compassion Training classes with a friend or family member.

No, our center does not offer graduate degrees. However, many of our affiliated faculty are members of academic departments at Stanford that do offer graduate degree programs. If you’re interested in mentorship by a CCARE-affiliated faculty member, we suggest you contact him or her directly to inquire about potential mentorship and available graduate degree programs.

Please see the following website to learn more about Stanford’s policy regarding research with animals:

https://med.stanford.edu/animalresearch/why-animal-research.html

We’re glad to hear of your interest in graduate school! Being an academic center at Stanford, CCARE does not offer degree programs. However, there are CCARE-affiliated faculty in Stanford academic departments that do offer degree programs (such as Psychology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neurosciences, etc.). If you’re interested in applying to a Stanford degree program and researching compassion or altruism, we suggest looking up the Stanford faculty that have been affiliated with CCARE’s research to identify who may be your ideal mentor.

Beyond Stanford, we recommend looking up faculty who have worked with the Mind and Life Institute and The Greater Good Science Center, who you may want as your mentor. We suggest you contact their organizations directly for guidance. Also, you’ll want to take a year or two and gain research experience (preferably in a lab with one of the top researchers you can find) so that you can demonstrate additional research expertise and passion for that area. Also, consider attending the annual Mind & Life Summer Research Institute, which is  great for making connections with compassion researchers.

We’re glad to hear you’re interested! Please start by exploring our website. Our video section has recordings of many of the world’s top experts in compassion research, and our wiki logs definitions of compassion as well as research tools to measure compassion. Please also attend our lectures, talks and conferences, which are dedicated to the science and application of compassion.