Spotlights
Margie Mene
Senior HR & Visa Specialist
I like to think of myself as an employee advocate …
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Kyrstyn Ong
PhD candidate
Materials Science and Engineering
The motivation for my work is that ultrasonic stimulation is a promising treatment for many …
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Yujie Tao
PhD candidate
Computer Science
My research is motivated by the goal of building systems that actually reconnect us to the present …
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Somil Bansal
Assistant Professor
Aeronautics and Astronautics
I want to put robots in every home in America.
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Michelle Ho
PhD candidate
Aeronautics and Astronautics
As a kid, I wore the same Halloween costume for three or four years straight: an orange NASA …
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Juliette Woodrow
PhD candidate
Computer Science
When I took my first computer science course at Stanford, CS106A, I was hooked. I loved the …
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Jay Sim
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
I've always loved working with my hands. As a kid I played with building toys like Lego and …
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Matt Strong
PhD candidate
Computer Science
I want to see robots seeing and touching the world in a way more akin to humans, because I believe …
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Laura Wuethrich
Degree Progress Officer
Electrical Engineering
This job involves a lot of the same things I’d loved about teaching – advising students, helping …
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Yuji Takubo
PhD candidate
Aeronautics and Astronautics
When you’re in a PhD program and you know you’ll be spending years working toward an academic or …
Read Yuji Takubo's story for July 17, 2025
Hannah Nabavi
MS ’26
Aeronautics and Astronautics
When I first came to Stanford, I was inspired because I saw that the courses aren’t just …
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Noah Eckman
PhD candidate
Chemical Engineering
I’m excited to go into work every day because someone might be working on something I don’t …
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Samuel King
PhD candidate
Bioengineering
I grew up in a very rural part of Canada and loved the outdoors, so I initially wanted to become a …
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Marigold Malinao
PhD candidate
Materials Science and Engineering
I’ve always been inclined toward math and science, but it’s still a bit of a mystery how I chose …
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Varun Madan
Undergraduate
Computer Science
In some ways you could say honeybees are the reason I’m at Stanford today …
Read Varun Madan's story for March 18, 2025
Dan Somen
Technical Director, Product Realization Lab
Mechanical Engineering
I didn’t have an “aha moment” when it came to becoming an engineer …
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Sonia Martin
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
When I first began making decisions about college and my career, I didn’t even know what …
Read Sonia Martin's story for October 17, 2024
Christine Baker
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
I grew up in Renton, Washington, near Puget Sound, which is a beautiful part of the Pacific …
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Thomas Colburn
PhD candidate
Materials Science and Engineering
I was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. We were …
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Kayla Patterson
MS ’24
Computer Science
I was born and raised in Robbinsville, a small town in central New Jersey …
Read Kayla Patterson's story for June 11, 2024
Adrienne Propp
PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I never planned to become a mathematician. I liked math growing up because it made sense to me – …
Read Adrienne Propp's story for April 23, 2024
Lara Weed
PhD candidate
Bioengineering
I was always interested in how the world worked, and looking back now, I can see my interest in …
Read Lara Weed's story for April 09, 2024