The Buzz

Suzanne will will hold office hours every Tuesday from 1-2:30 in the Student Advisors office. If you are interested in community based courses, research or internships, Suzanne is here to support you. She can help you find placements, clarify goals, align goals with academic concentration, identify research questions, or act as a sounding-board for their ideas. If you have questions, contact Suzanne directly: 

Suzanne M Gaulocher PhD, MPH

Director of Community Engaged Learning

Phone: 650-497-3657
Cell: 608-354-1864
Email: gaulocher@stanford.edu

We’re really excited to be offering a new class this summer called Learning & Memory: Theory and Applications (Psych 136S). Each week we’ll spend Monday
learning about the science of a specific topic in learning and memory, and on Wednesday we’ll talk about how this material can help us understand real
world problems and policies. This would be a great course to take if you’ve ever wondered things like:

- Can I train my brain to become smarter?
- How do memories that I'm not aware of influence my thoughts and actions?
- How do media and technology influence my memories?
- How well can we believe eyewitness testimony? How close are we to using mind-reading to figure out if a witness is lying?
- How can memory research help me become a better student and help teachers become better teachers?
- What goes wrong with memory in aging, depression, and other clinical populations?
A preliminary syllabus can be found on our course
website:http://stanford.edu/class/psych136s/index.html

Please feel free to email either of us with any questions.
Hope to see you this summer!
Stephanie Gagnon (sgagnon@stanford.edu) and Karen LaRocque
(klarocqu@stanford.edu)

Are you a sophomore or junior interested in Health Policy?

We invite you to attend aStanford in Washington (SIW) info session to learn more about the opportunity to spend Winter quarter 2016 working and studying in our nation's capital.

Winter Quarter has a unique health policy focus. Applications are due Friday May 8th.

Previous Health Policy Internships have included: National Institute of Health, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning & Evaluation Health Resources & Service Administration,Office of Health IT & Quality, Office of Minority Health, Brookings Institute Center for Health Reform, Surgeon General’s Office, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Food and Nutrition Services), National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Office of Global Research), John Snow, Inc., New America Foundation Health Policy Program, Pan-American Health Organization

HumBio 119/Bio 102: Demography: Health, Development, Environment will not be taught again.

HUMBIO 152 -  Viral Lifestyles will be offered a last time in Spring 2016.

The entire year of Organic Chemistry plus labs will be offered in a 9-week summer course and should satisfy the pre-med requirements for pre-med, pre-dent, pre-vet and other pre-health careers.  General Chemistry 31A and 31B are also offered.  www.stanford.edu/dept/chemistry

Homemade is a funded start-up launched out of Stanford in 2013 by co-founders Anna Rakoczy (LLM / LSM, Stanford, UC Berkeley) and Dr. Chloe Chien (MD / MBA, Stanford). The mission of Homemade is to reverse the epidemic of lifestyle diseases by helping individuals to adopt and maintain better eating habits.  We do this by offering in-person social cooking programs where we teach the joy of cooking and eating whole foods made from scratch in a community.  We have cooked over 15,000 meals with our members to date and helped hundreds of members to sustainably lose weight and improve their quality of life.  

We are on a rapid growth trajectory and looking for an exceptional individual who is self-driven, ambitious, enthusiastic and passionate about living a healthy life to join our team as our Customer Success Manager.  We prefer applicants with experience and proven success in consumer sales.  The individual will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic, fast paced, mission-driven organization with a positive and empowering company culture and opportunities to grow with the company as we scale.

Announcing an exciting job opportunity for a talented, energetic Stanford student looking to work in academic research before applying to medical or graduate school.  The Stem Cell and Diabetes Centers at UCSF are seeking highly motivated applicants for a full-time position as a research technician in the lab of a newly appointed Assistant Professor (who is also a Stanford graduate).

The primary focus of our laboratory is pancreatic development and Type I Diabetes, and we employ the tools of stem cell biology, developmental biology, genomics, and tissue engineering.  Ultimately, we aim to cure diabetic patients of their disease using cell replacement therapy.  This is a chance to truly be at the cutting edge of translational research in a highly collaborative scientific environment.  Specific duties include human embryonic stem cell culture, mouse husbandry, FACS analysis and genomics techniques.

Candidates must have strong organizational and communication skills, and hold a BA/BS in biological or biochemical sciences (or a related field) by the time they begin employment.  Preferred start date is June, 2015 or earlier.
Interested applicants should send a cover letter and CV with three professional references with telephone numbers and email addresses to:lily.yu@ucsf.edu.  Please include the words "Technician: Stem Cell Lab" in the subject line.

Health Coach/Behavior Change and UX designer (full-time or internship) with Lark, leaders in mobile health.

Lark is a team that cares deeply about its mission -- to help our users build life-long healthy habits, the right way. We were an early pioneer in the wearables space, with the first bluetooth-connected health wearable to be sold in the Apple Store. We are revolutionizing how people interact with their health data -- it's not about charts and graphs anymore, but personalized, one-on-one coaching with our intelligent Health AI. We base our design on well-researched behavior change interventions to create actual positive change for our users. Users love our app, and we're only at the beginning of what it can do. Come help us make the smartest,  most caring and effective health coach the world has ever seen.  We're a team of Stanford and MIT grads, and our office is only 10 minutes from campus -- you'll feel right at home!

The Health Coach/UX designer role is for someone who is passionate about creating real, lasting behavioral change in peoples' lives. You'll be writing and testing the AI interventions that lark serves as the core of its app. You'll be driving the most cutting edge user interface in the mobile health space. You should enjoy writing, and be great at empathetic, fun conversations around health.

Interns or full-time welcome.

If you're interested, please send your resume to jobs@lark.com.

The Solutions Science Lab in the Department of Pediatrics has developed a MOOC to teach Junior Girl Scout Troop leaders how to implement a successful research-based energy reduction program.  The program is called GLEE--Girls Learning Environment and Energy.

We are asking Stanord students who are traveling home over the summer to meet with their local Girl Scout Council to describe the GLEE MOOC and learnhow they can promote the MOOC to their Girl Scout Troop leaders.  Girl Scout experience is helpful but not mandatory.

Here's how it would work:

1. Attend a 1 hr training prior to going home.

2. Spend 30-60 minutes reviewing GLEE website and MOOC.

3. We help find a contact at your local Girl Scout Concil.

4.  When home, you request a time to present the GLEE MOOC (show a 3 min video, descrive the MOOC with a provided PPT)

5. You send us a summary of your work.

If interested or want to learn more, contact June Flora: jflora@stanford.edu

San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Department houses the Urban Agriculture program, a new interagency program supporting the public with the infrastructure to steward and produce food, animals and flowers on our open green spaces.  To support further programming and growth of the program, the program coordinator seeks individual(s) for an unpaid summer internship who have experience with public policy, environment, planning or public health.  The purpose of this study is to assess the impacts of urban agriculture.  Areas of impact to be surveyed include social, environmental, health, community and economic benefits.  Intern(s) will create surveying tools, assess and collect data, and create a report of the findings.  Intern(s) will travel to various urban agriculture sites citywide and meet with a range of stakeholders.  Report will be used to create policies, investment opportunities and further governmental support for this new city endeavor.  This would be the first analysis of its kind in San Francisco. 

 

Program coordinator seeks intern(s) who is/are:

Self-directed and independent

Interested in engaging with a wide variety of different users of urban agriculture

Capable of being socially engaging

Enthusiastic about real-life applications of data analysis towards creating effective public programs

Able to commute via public transit, private vehicle or bus around San Francisco

Able to have his/her/their own computer or have access to one

A strong written and verbal communicator

Program coordinator will meet with intern(s) once a week to receive updates and check in on progress of project.  There is no pay or office space associated with this internship, but intern is welcome to the office supplies and infrastructure as needed via the coordinator and as is available.  Coordinator will provide guidance, flexible support and assistance whenever needed. 

 

Project will start early summer and conclude by Fall 2015, for an average of 20-40 hours a week, TBD.

Interested parties should send a resume and their preference of time commitment (20, 30 or 40 hours a week) by May 31, 2015 to: hannah.shulman@sfgov.org

Passionate about food and nutrition? Are you a hardcore ops nerd? Branding/marketing maven? Interested in getting some hands on experience growing and scaling an early stage startup in the on-demand sector? Do you just want a free lunch everyday?

Professor Jon Krosnick, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and (by courtesy) Psychology, is inviting applications from Stanford freshmen, sophomores, and juniors to work either:

15 hours per week during Spring quarter 2015 as paid research collaborators
and/or
as full-time (40 hours per week) paid research collaborators in his lab during the summer of 2015.

The students will join a team of other undergrads, graduate students, post-docs, and visiting scholars to work with Professor Krosnick on a range of projects for the purpose of generating academic publications.  Dr. Krosnick's research is in three main areas: (1) the psychology of politics generally, including the study of voting and elections, news media influence, and more, (2) what the public thinks and wants with regard to global warming, and (3) how to ask questions optimally to obtain accurate, unbiased responses in surveys.

How to Apply: Email your resume and a cover letter and an unofficial copy of your Stanford transcript (and high school transcript if you're a freshman) to Professor Krosnick (krosnick@stanford.edu).

The children of mothers with histories of eating disorders are at an increased risk of developing feeding, eating, and related psychopathologies themselves. ParentBased Prevention (PBP) is a promising intervention program to reduce the negative outcomes in the toddlers of mothers with lifetime eating disorders. We are now conducting a randomized control trial that assesses the feasibility of this prevention program. Lab website: http://edresearch.stanford.edu

This position is great for students who are interested in the psychological processes in families, development of young children and prevention programs. Students will have a chance to learn about pioneering clinical interventions and expand their skills in designing, conducting and analyzing studies. Professors: James Lock, MD, PhD and Cara Bohon, PhD; Supervising researcher: Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit, PhD (Visiting Instructor) Contact information: shiris@stanford.edu 

Duties: The Research Assistant will have an opportunity for close involvement in the translation of empirical knowledge to intervention programs. We are looking for Research Assistants who would take part in recruiting participants, analyses of audio and video tapes of sessions, development of a treatment manual and preparation of materials for publication. Hours are flexible. Qualifications of applicant: Applicant should be motivated, organized, creative and resourceful. Prior research experience is not a prerequisite. Compensation: Course credit: PSYC-199-05 (29614), BOHON

To apply, send an email with your CV, weekly availability, and why you are interested in this position, to Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit at shiris@stanford.edu

Parasol Co is a lifestyle brand seeking to give moms worldwide access to high-quality baby products that don’t compromise on design. We are seeking freelance researchers to fill our research needs to help develop basic baby products that are rooted in scientific research.  Our products include diapers, diaper bags, bottles, diaper rash cream, and baby wipes. The researcher will conduct whitepaper research on the materials and ingredients used in the products so that we can ensure our products are functional and safe.  To that end, we need part-time researchers on a contract, per-project basis. 

What’s in it for you?  Researchers will be compensated based on experience.

Interested?  Email monchette@parasolco.com with your resume and a brief introduction.  More information at parasolco.com

Are you interested in scandals in science?  
Professors in Psychology, Communication, Political Science seek a Stanford undergraduate to collaborating in conducting research on scandals in science and on threats to accuracy in scientific research.  The goal of the work will be to document ways in which science has gone wrong in the past and the ways to do science optimally in the future, so scientists can be as successful as possible in their work.  This job will involve working closely with faculty who are studying this issue and to investigate the growing scholarly literatures on the topic and news coverage of scientific scandals.

The student who is hired will be paid hourly for all work done throughout the remainder of the 2014-2015 academic year.  Benefits of the position include collaborating with faculty to coauthor reports and publications.  The faculty can write letters of recommendation for you describing your role in the collaboration.  

To apply, please send your resume, your unofficial Stanford Transcript, and a cover letter explaining why you're interested in the position and what skills you bring to Professor Jon Krosnick (krosnick@stanford.edu).  Applications will be reviewed upon receipt, and the position will be filled as soon as a qualified candidate is identified.

The American Philosophical Association Committee for Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy (CPIP) is sponsoring a session on Children, Food, and Philosophy to be held at the APA Eastern Division Meeting January 6-9, 2016 in Washington, D.C.  The CPIP invites presentation proposals about the intersection between children and food.  This may include any of the following topics: ethics and food, food justice from farm to table, food activism, the aesthetics of food, local food, the global food system, or food and health.

Send title of presentation, abstract (500 words), and academic or professional affiliation to:

Dr. Beth Dixon
beth.dixon@plattsburgh.edu

AND

Dr. Sara Goering
sgoering@uw.edu

Deadline for submission is May 15^th, 2015