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DARE: Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence

About DARE

The DARE (Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence) Doctoral Fellowship Program awards two-year fellowships to advanced doctoral students who want to investigate and prepare for academic careers and whose presence will help diversify the professoriate.

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The 2019 DARE application is closed.

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Recent News

Photo of Eddy Albarran, standing and smiling in front of a green space outside of a building at Stanford
Jan 24 2019 | Scope
In the Spotlight features standout scholars in the School of Medicine. Read Becky Bach's interview with Eddy Albarran: Eddy Albarran has a killer story about how he happened to attend Stanford, first as an undergrad and now as a graduate student in neurosciences. I'll let him dive right in: "We'...
Anika Green
Nov 12 2018 | Stanford News
Since Stanford launched the Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence Doctoral Fellowship Program (DARE) a decade ago, more than 150 alumni of the program have launched careers in academia, industry and government after earning PhDs on the Farm. To honor their achievements, Stanford invited...
transmission electron microscope image of a palladium nanocube
Nov 7 2018 | Stanford News
When Michal Vadai’s experiment worked for the first time, she jumped out of her seat. Vadai, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, had spent months designing and troubleshooting a new tool that could greatly expand the capability of an advanced microscope at the Stanford Nano Shared...
Lupita Ruiz-Jones flexes her arm with electrodes on it, while 3 others look on.
Nov 1 2018 | Stanford News
On a recent autumn day, Provost Persis Drell was strolling across the campus of the University of Notre Dame on her way to cheer for the Stanford Cardinal football team when she heard a friendly voice call out, “Persis!” Drell turned to greet Maria Holland, who earned a doctorate in mechanical...