Jasmine Desiderio
Lab Administrator, Prakash Lab, Wang Lab
I’m an administrator for the Department of Bioengineering, where I support both the Bo Wang and …
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Emilie Kono
Bioengineering
One of the most exciting days of my life was when I went to my first university lab in high school …
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Gracey Hessinger
Student Services Officer
Bioengineering
My manager is always telling me I have to bring my “Disney magic” to my work, and there’s a …
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Tim Schnabel
BS ’15, MS ’17, PhD ’21
Bioengineering
I engineer microbes that turn the air into fertilizer …
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Elvis Ikwa
BS ’15
Bioengineering
I’m the first person in my family to go to college, and it only happened because when I was 12 I …
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Widya Mulyasasmita
PhD ’13
Bioengineering
To me, engineering is all about using scientific principles to design and improve our natural world …
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Sasha Denisin
PhD ’18
Bioengineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I work in biotech, where I make experiments more efficient and hands-off using …
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Linny Le
Lead Research and Finance Administrator
Bioengineering
My job has always been a roller coaster – in a good way …
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Stephanie Schmidt
MS ’16, PhD ’19
Bioengineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve been surrounded by engineering my whole life; both my parents are engineers, …
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Ziv Lautman
MS candidate ’21
Bioengineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always loved learning. I studied environmental engineering and eventually …
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Janelle Kaneda
Coterminal MS Candidate ’21
Bioengineering
#IAmAnEngineer: All my life I’ve had a passion for dance. Understanding the movement in the human …
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Nicole W. Xu
PhD Candidate, Bioengineering
Bioengineering
Growing up, I thought I was going to be a doctor …
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Jan Liphardt
Associate Professor
Bioengineering
What you can’t create you don’t understand …
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Zina Jawadi
Coterminal MS Candidate
Bioengineering
Robert Fulghum’s book is famously titled, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. I …
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Alisha Birk, Mark Buckup, and Janelle Kaneda
B.S.H. ’19
Bioengineering
We met a patient the other day who was about 3 years old …
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Kwabena Boahen
Professor of Bioengineering and of Electrical Engineering
Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering
My first computer was essentially a glorified electronic calculator that could run BASIC programs …
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Loza Tadesse and Tim Abate
PhD candidates
Bioengineering, Materials Science and Engineering
There’s an information barrier in Ethiopia when it comes to opportunities for education …
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Caitlyn Miller
PhD Candidate
Bioengineering
I was in 9th grade when my stepdad’s oral cancer returned. I remember feeling helpless because I …
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Ana Ordoñez
’17
Bioengineering
I don’t think I would have gone through with an engineering major at Stanford if it weren’t for …
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Daniel Hu
Senior
Bioengineering
The first class that made me feel like an engineer was BioE 123: Biomedical System Prototyping Lab …
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Alison Marsden
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and of
Bioengineering
Congenital defects actually affect 1 in 100 babies; it’s quite a bit more common than people might …
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Chris Mathy
B.S.
Bioengineering
The biggest lesson I’m taking away from Stanford is that it’s all within my hands …
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