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Kwami Coleman- Musicology PhD student Kwami Coleman is captivated by jazz as both a scholar and an artist. Some of Coleman’s earliest memories are of playing jazz piano, but he says his relationship with music has evolved since that time. He spent… Read more
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Chase Mendenhall- As a doctoral student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program, Mendenhall works closely with professors Gretchen Daily and Paul Ehrlich in the Center for Conservation Biology. His primary interest is understanding the tradeoffs between the conservation of biodiversity and… Read more
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Allison Master- Graduate psychology student Allison Master explores what motivates children to choose challenging tasks over easy ones. Master says that students’ beliefs—such as the conviction that intelligence can grow—play an important role in motivation. Her research investigates the origins of these… Read more
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Martha Cyert- For biologists like Martha Cyert, baker’s yeast is more than just an ingredient for freshly baked bread. Yeast cells not only share many characteristics with human cells but also are easier to work with in a lab, making them an… Read more
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Paul Wender- Like the enzymes that enable chemical reactions, Paul Wender acts as a catalyst at Stanford. As a global leader in the fields of molecular chemistry, designer molecules, and sustainable chemistry, his work stands at the forefront of the molecular revolution. … Read more
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Brandon Williams- Biology PhD student Brandon Williams researches the mechanisms that control cell division in bacteria.Williams works with renowned Stanford professor Lucy Shapiro, who pioneered a new field using a single-celled microorganism to study fundamental questions about developmental biology. With the freshwater… Read more
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Christina Cooley- Graduate chemistry student Christina Cooley devotes her time to research in the field of drug delivery. At the Wender Lab, she works primarily on the development of molecular transporters, which attach to drugs that cannot enter a cell or do… Read more
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