EDGE Insights
Role of EDGE Mentoring
EDGE fellows share what role EDGE mentoring has played in their 1st and 2nd year PhD experience at Stanford.
Role of EDGE Mentoring
EDGE fellows share what role EDGE mentoring has played in their 1st and 2nd year PhD experience at Stanford.
Antonio Lopez: Finding a Work/Life Balance
Antonio Lopez shares how he maintains a work/life balance with his hectic schedule.
EDGE Reception 2021
EDGE Fellows share what they are looking forward to this year during the 2021 EDGE Reception.
Planning for Future Careers:Part 1
EDGE Fellows, Dannielle and Colette, discuss their future career plans.
Building Connections Virtually
EDGE Fellows give advice on how to build connections at Stanford during these unprecedented times.
Selecting Your Committee
EDGE Fellows reflect on the process of committee selection.
Autumn Quarter Reflections
The VPGE staff gives tips and well wishes to EDGE Fellows as they wrap up autumn quarter.
Making the Most of Your EDGE Funding
EDGE Fellows share tips for making the most of your EDGE funding to advance your scholarship and research.
Finding Community That Supports You
EDGE mentors reflect on the support that they receive from the communities they found as doctoral students at Stanford.
Thriving in Graduate School
EDGE mentors share the habits and strategies they have developed to maintain their well-being while in graduate school.
EDGE Mentors Reflect on the Qualifying Process
EDGE mentors share their experiences navigating their departmental qualifying exams to advance from doctoral students to doctoral candidates.
Staying Connected to Friends and Family
EDGE mentors discuss the importance of maintaining community and how they build and maintain connection to their friends and family back home, while on the doctoral journey.
Getting The Most Out Of EDGE
Fellows share the components of the EDGE program that have been most valuable to them.
What I Wish I Knew...
EDGE Fellows describe some of the things that they wish they had known as incoming PhD students to Stanford.
Doing PhD Research (Part 2—Advice)
PhD students Cynthia Garcia (modern thought & literature), Soren Rosier (education), Richard Nally (physics), and Jared Weaver (chemistry) explain how they chose their dissertation topics and provide general advice for students who are in the process of making their own decision.
Doing PhD Research (Part 1—Challenges)
PhD students Shersingh Tumber-Davila (earth system science), Jared Weaver (chemistry), Soren Rosier (education), Cynthia Garcia (modern thought & literature) and Richard Nally (physics) discuss the challenges they have faced in getting started with their doctoral research.
Selecting a PhD Advisor
PhD students Camilla Griffiths (psychology), Joy Franco (mechanical engineering) and Jonathan Leal (modern thought & literature) discuss how they selected their PhD advisors and offer their top tips for graduate students looking to establish their relationship with a primary advisor.
Bridging Campus and Home
PhD students Brooke Durham (history) and Jeremy Witmer (applied physics) discuss their experiences bridging campus and home. They describe their strategies for sharing what graduate life at Stanford is like for them, what resonates with friends and family, and provide tips for describing their research to people outside their field.
Graduate Imposterism at Stanford
Nora Brackbill (physics) and Daniel Scott Smith (education) discuss their experiences with imposterism as Stanford graduate students. They share that feelings of imposterism are commonplace--nearly everyone experiences imposter syndrome at Stanford at one time or another and describe tips for managing feelings of imposterim in graduate school.
Transitioning to Stanford
David Manosalvas-Kjono, PhD candidate in aeronautics and astronautics, tells the story of his initial transition to Stanford. He reveals that his early challenges, worrying about whether he belonged at Stanford and in his degree program, were shared by many students. Through connecting with other students David found a supportive community and an environment in which graduate students worked 'harder together' in a collaborative rather than competitive environment.