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The Stanford Challenge
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(September 2, 2011) Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship recipient Jamie Fleischfresser studies the impact of climate change on coral reefs.
The Future Self project uses virtual reality to introduce young people to their older Avatars in an effort to influence their behavior and financial planning for the future. (April 6, 2011)
Integrating arts into education creates a new kind of leaders. (December 2009)
Research shows that teaching matters, and that a great teacher can change a child's life. Stanford's Center for Support of Excellence in Teaching gives classroom teachers the chance to come back to school themselves. (October 2009)
From treating depression and Alzheimer's to decoding how thinking and emotions work, Stanford researchers are starting to "crack the code" for how the nervous system creates our mental lives. (August 27, 2009)
Stanford graduate Kiyomi Burchill takes her experience at the Haas Center for Public Service all the way to the State Capitol where she works for Senate President pro-tem Darrell Steinberg solving real world problems.
New ideas on tracing and treating pain using toxins from the Japanese puffer fish. (April 2009)
Stanford researchers learn how a person's genes affect their response to drugs. (April 2009)
When it came time for college, aspiring composer Josh Archibald-Seiffer chose a Stanford education over conservatory training. (February 2009)
He doesn't eat granola. David Geeter wants to change what people think it means to be an environmentalist. (February 2009)
Coming from Bangladesh as a pre-med, Rowza Tur Rumma has also become a documentary filmmaker. (February 2009)
Focusing her history major on the Middle East, Rachel Antonsen speaks Arabic to promote the empathy that prevents violent conflict. (February 2009)
He may go without sleep to build class projects, but Kyle Tsai has the energy to study Chinese and volunteer with Civil Air Patrol. (February 2009)
Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowships give students new freedom to pursue solutions to real-world problems across academic boundaries. (January 13, 2009)
Stanford University reduces student loans for graduates who teach in underserved communities. The new Dorothy Durfee Avery Loan Forgiveness Program at Stanford's School of Education offers to ease the burden for any eligible graduate of the STEP Program.
Stanford's Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources (IPER) program lets students combine multiple fields of study to tackle complex environmental challenges.
Stanford Law School pioneered clinical education in the 1970s. Today, it continues that tradition of innovation through ten legal clinics that, under the guidance of faculty mentors, test the students' lawyering skills, and expand their perspectives.
President John Hennessy and four Stanford students - from China, India, Pakistan, and the Czech Republic - discuss the financial challenges of getting to Stanford and the incredible experiences they've enjoyed with help from scholarship donors.
Many graduate students, in fields from science to law, have smart ideas that could become successful ventures - but business skills aren't part of their usual course of study. Many will go on to work in corporate settings without formal business training.
How can medical students practice surgery without placing patients at risk? Stanford surgeons and computer scientists are working together to create a hands-on surgical simulators with incredibly realistic sense of touch.
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