2020-2021 SPICE Projects
AMO Student Seminar (PizzAMO)
Participating Department(s): Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics
Keyword(s): Physics, Optics
Contact: Ronen Kroeze, rmkroeze@stanford.edu
PizzAMO is a biweekly lunchtime seminar series for graduate students and post-docs interested in learning more about topics in the field of atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics.
Archaeology Lunch Club Lecture Series
Participating Department(s): Anthropology, Classics, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Geophysics
Keyword(s): Archaeology, Lecture, Anthropology
Contact: Haoran Shi, hrs@stanford.edu
The ArchaeologyLunch Club Lecture Series is a weekly discussion forum organized by graduate students at Stanford Archaeology Center (SAC) that will bring together faculty, students, and scholars within and outside the Stanford archaeology community, exploring topics of common intellectual concerns. The 2020–2021 series, entitled ‘Ontologies of Archaeological Space,’ will feature over 20 practitioners from academia, industry, and NGOs across the globe, whose multi-disciplinary research interests cover Big Data in spatial analysis, archaeological imagination in entertainment, geophysical prospection, materiality, and heritage. These lectures identify emerging research agendas, advancing current understanding of archaeological space (and time).
Art as Science Communication Initiative (Art-SCI)
Participating Department(s): All
Keyword(s): Dance, Communication, STEM
Contact: Rebecca Gellman, beckgell@stanford.edu
Art as Science Communication Initiative (Art-SCI) is a collaborative dance project dedicated to communicating scientific concepts through choreography. Art can communicate scientific concepts, and scientists can use artistic media to think through and express their ideas. The group includes Stanford graduate students across various STEM departments. Art-SCI create dances based on our research, and perform them for communities within Stanford and beyond. They also hold choreography workshops that teach dance as science communication for Stanford students.
ASEE's Breakfast Chats (ABC's)
Participating Department(s): Aeronautics & Astronautics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Chemical and Systems Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Earth System Science, Earth Systems Program, Education, Electrical Engineering, Geological Sciences, Geophysics, Management Science & Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Psychology, Statistics
Keyword(s): Education, Community, Networking
Contact: Quay, quay@stanford.edu
Website: asee.stanford.edu
ABC's are a forum where both aspiring and experienced educators engage in rich discussion with diverse perspectives about effective pedagogy -- from metacognition to diversity in the classroom. Graduate students gain role models and a supportive network to become stellar educators in academia or beyond. Talks are monthly, with speakers from industry and academia. There's also an off-cycle journal club for deeper dives into key topics.
BIOE Student Seminar Series
Participating Department(s): Bioengineering
Keyword(s): Bioengineering, Seminar, Communication
Contact: Sarah Lensch, slensch@stanford.edu
The BIOE monthly Student Seminar Series gives graduate students an opportunity to practice presenting their research in a friendly, low-stakes setting and receive constructive feedback from their peers. Students develop science communication skills, foster new collaborative projects, and build community both as students and as researchers.
Case Interview Preparation Course
Participating Department(s): All
Keyword(s): Professional Development, Consulting, Workshop
Contact: Tahmina Nasserie, tahmina@stanford.edu
Website: adc.stanford.edu
This is a 10-week long course to help students from all graduate fields prepare for management consulting case interviews. The weekly sessions focus on a variety of skill development topics and include a portion of instruction by graduate students from the ADC (Advanced Degree Consulting) Club and a portion where students get one-on-one practice with each other. Graduate students learn how to build problem-solving frameworks and communicate the problem-solving process, skills that can be used for any application.
ChEM-H Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Trainee-Led Seminar Series
Participating Department(s): Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Biophysics, Chemical and Systems Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Medical Scientist Training Program, Medicine
Keyword(s): Chemistry, Biology, Seminar
Contact: Sevahn Vorperian, sevahn@stanford.edu
The ChEM-H CBI Trainee-Led Seminars are a student-driven platform for trainees to contextualize curiosities originating from their research by engaging with fellow Stanford scholars and Biotech professionals in the Bay Area. These seminars serve as a direct response to trainee-articulated curiosities, providing a rapid-response platform for students to gather and have inquiry-led discussion based on their articulated and evolving interests. These seminars inherently facilitate cross-disciplinary examination of the seminar topic by gathering students across the Schools of Humanities and Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (including both Biosciences PhD students and MD/PhD students), alongside Stanford faculty and biotech professionals.
Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Action Committee (ChemE GSAC)
Participating Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Keyword(s): Mentoring, Community Building, Professional Development
Contact: Anni Zhang, anniz@stanford.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/stanfordcheme/
The Action Committee sponsors and coordinates a variety of events, including new student orientation, qualifying exam preparation, faculty luncheons for first-year students, student-selected faculty speaker series, Convocation featuring student speakers, career development workshops, academic milestone celebrations, and much more. ChemE GSAC gives students a voice and provides critical resources for the ChemE graduate experience, from first-year advisor selection all the way up through thesis defense.
Climate Land Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics Seminar Series (CLAOD)
Participating Department(s): Earth System Science, Geological Sciences
Keyword(s): Climate, Sustainability, Environment
Contact: Laurel Regibeau-Rockett, regirock@stanford.edu
CLAOD (Climate Land Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics) provides a space for graduate students to connect and collaborate with others from the Stanford community and beyond. Through regular seminars, students hear from speakers in the discipline and present their own seminar-length talks. CLAOD also organizes small-group directed discussions about relevant topics in the discipline and an annual research symposium. CLAOD provides a sustainable (carbon-neutral) foundation for the growing climate dynamics community.
Concerning Violence: A Decolonial Collaborative Research Group
Participating Department(s): Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Modern Thought and Literature
Keyword(s): Decolonial, Workshop
Contact: Jameelah Morris, morrisji@stanford.edu
The Decolonial Collaborative Research Group (DCRG) broadly challenges the ontological and epistemic violence of coloniality and slavery, with the goal of rethinking the premises of cultural and literary scholarship towards the practice of transformational knowledge production. Students come together from a number of disciplines for discussions and speaker-based workshops on the limits and potential for decolonial theory to address the legacies of violence left by slavery, and the colonial logics and practices that persist in the contemporary world.
Condensed Matter Physics Journal Club
Participating Department(s): Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics
Keyword(s): Journal club
Contact: Yanbing Zhu, yanbingz@stanford.edu
This journal club fosters intellectual collaboration and encourages conversation between members of different groups within the diverse condensed matter physics field. At meetings, participants have informal focused discussions in a hybrid seminar-group discussion format, led by that session's speaker. Club meetings are usually held over lunch (provided).
Critical Practices Unit (CPU)
Participating Department(s): Art & Art History, Mechanical Engineering
Keyword(s): Critical Making, Arts, Research
Contact: Hank Gerba, hankg@stanford.edu
Critical Practices Unit (CPU) is conceived as a collaborative, practice-based, and transdisciplinary space for arts research and critique. CPU hopes to provide a consistent space in which students can produce unexpected connections across disciplinary lines, develop new and pre-existing projects, and be introduced to tools and practices which allow for new modes of scholarship. Through "critical making," we hope to find ways to bridge the interests and skills of students in humanities and sciences alike.
Critical Studies of Blackness in Education
Participating Department(s): All, Education
Keyword(s): Black Studies, Education, Workshop
Contact: Danielle Greene, dmgreene@stanford.edu
The purpose of Critical Studies of Blackness in Education (CSBE) is to foster an intellectual community specifically dedicated to understanding and developing applied solutions to embedded anti-Blackness in education. Graduate student members seek to work collectively to reimagine educational futures drawing on Black traditions and understandings in ways that protect and uplift Black schoolchildren. Leaning on the scholarly lineage of Black Studies and Black feminist epistemology, CSBE is a transdisciplinary space that sponsors workshops, writing groups, presentations, and collaborative knowledge production that disrupts anti-Blackness at all levels of education.
East Asian Studies Intellectual Community (EASIC)
Participating Department(s): All
Keyword(s): East Asian Studies
Contact: Melissa Hosek, mhosek@stanford.edu
This intellectual community aims to connect graduate students from across campus studying East Asia, broadly defined. EASIC provides opportunities for students to meet, share interests, and collaborate through organized reading groups, workshops, and film screenings.
Environmental Justice Book Club for Environmental Engineers and Scientists
Participating Department(s): Civil & Environmental Engineering, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
Keyword(s): Environmental Engineering, Water, Policies
Contact: Katy Graham, kgraham4@stanford.edu
Environmental Justice Book Club for Environmental Engineers and Scientists focuses on environmental justice issues, moving from more introductory to California-specific texts. This book club will fill a gap in the education of environmental engineering and science graduate students on important issues related to our research in water quality and resources, particularly the connections between policies in environmental monitoring and racism, including anti-Black racism and discrimination towards other marginalized groups. They meet weekly to discuss readings and engage with each other on environmental justice issues and apply the principles learned to our current and future research projects.
Ethnography Beyond the Vignette: Experiments in Genre
Participating Department(s): Anthropology, Education, Modern Thought and Literature, Sociology
Keyword(s): Ethnography, Writing, Genre
Contact: Grace Zhou, ghzhou@stanford.edu
Ethnography Beyond the Vignette is a workshop series exploring the creative potential of the ethnographic genre. How might ethnography be deployed as an interpretative practice of storytelling that emerges out of deep commitments to different social worlds? How might we explore--and experiment with--its craft to reach broader audiences? Through workshops with invited guests and a writing group, graduate students will be invited to experiment with presenting their own research through ethnographic poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and other media.
Goggles Optional Podcast
Participating Department(s): Applied Physics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Biomedical Informatics, Biophysics, Earth System Science, Electrical Engineering, Genetics, Geological Sciences, Immunology, Mechanical Engineering, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Physics, Radiology, Structural Biology
Keyword(s): Podcast, Science Communication
Contact: Abhijit Lavania, alavania@stanford.edu
Website: gogglesoptional.com
Goggles Optional is a weekly podcast where Stanford scientists explore and discuss recent scientific discoveries. Our hosts invite listeners to explore the significant news and discoveries of the week using a combination of wit, analogies, and straightforward explanations. We hope to cultivate excitement for science and increase public understanding across STEM disciplines. Anyone with an interest in science is welcome to listen - no formal scientific education is necessary, so the goggles are optional! Our team writes, performs, produces, and edits our 30-minute show each week and it's available on several podcast platforms and played on KSZU radio.
International Community-based Health and Development (ICHD) student group
Participating Department(s): Civil & Environmental Engineering, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Mechanical Engineering, Medicine
Keyword(s): Community, Health, International
Contact: Allie Sherris, asherris@stanford.edu
ICHD convenes students who want to apply community-based approaches to addressing issues of international health and development for positive social impact. ICHD has three objectives: to enable outside experts and students to share community-based research and project implementation skills (with a focus on challenges in international work); to promote interdisciplinary collaboration related to community based research in international settings in order to apply these skills; and to facilitate networking between students with similar interests from diverse backgrounds who may not otherwise meet each other across campus.
Mathematics Directed Reading Project
Participating Department(s): Mathematics
Keyword(s): Mentorship, Mathematics, Research
Contact: Vivian Kuperberg, viviank@stanford.edu
Website: http://mathdrp.stanford.edu/
The Mathematics Directed Reading Program (DRP) pairs undergraduate students with graduate student mentors one-on-one to meet weekly as they read an agreed-upon mathematical text over the course of a quarter. At the end of the quarter, the undergraduate participants meet for a colloquium and each give short talks about what they learned. The goal is to build connections between the undergraduate and graduate student communities by helping students engage in substantive mathematical projects together, and to facilitate the transfer of mathematical cultural capital to our undergraduate participants.
Latin America Working Group
Participating Department(s): Anthropology, Art & Art History, Comparative Literature, Education, History, Iberian & Latin American Cultures, Latin American Studies, Law, Modern Thought and Literature, Political Science, Sociology, Stanford Global Studies
Keyword(s): Latin America, Critical Theory, Interdisciplinary
Contact: Grace Eliana Alexandrino Ocana, galexand@stanford.edu
The Latin America Working Group offers a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and bilingual space for Stanford graduate students to discuss research and critical theory related to and originating in Latin America. Engaging multiple forms of knowledge that emerge from and about Latin America, the working group’s format enables students to share research-in-progress, workshop papers and dissertation topics, and keep abreast of the latest in news and theories about the region with major scholars at Stanford and beyond.
MASALA: Music, Arts, and Sciences: Advancing our Lives in Academia
Participating Department(s): Music
Keyword(s): Music, Arts, Technology
Contact: Gabriel Ellis, gzellis@stanford.edu
MASALA offers events intended to foster collaboration, discussion, and academic exploration across disciplinary boundaries in Stanford’s graduate music community, including a weekly colloquium series, a biweekly journal club, a listening club, and a day-long symposium that brings together performers, composers, and scholars from the Stanford community and elsewhere.
Meeting of Astrophysics Students at Stanford (MASS)
Participating Department(s): Physics
Keyword(s): Seminar, Astrophysics, Journal club
Contact: Sebastian Wagner-Carena, swagnerc@stanford.edu
MASS is a students-only seminar series and journal club within the Physics department and the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) focused on astrophysics and cosmology. Students from all physics disciplines are encouraged to attend. The main objective is to provide a comfortable, stress-free setting in which graduate students can practice presenting and discuss current papers amongst themselves, without added pressure due to the presence of faculty.
Networking Outreach Meals for Science (NOMS)
Participating Department(s): Applied Physics, Physics
Keyword(s): Outreach
Contact: Connie Hsueh, chsueh@stanford.edu
NOMS convenes various sectors of the scientific community to interact in an informal environment for idea-exchange and advice. The focus is bringing together scientists and engineers at different stages in their careers and creating a forum where those early in their career can network with those in later stages.
Science and Technology Studies Film Forum
Participating Department(s): Communication, Modern Thought and Literature
Keyword(s): Science and Technology Studies, Science Fiction, Film
Contact: Sanna Ali, sannaali@stanford.edu
The STS Film Forum arranges monthly screenings and discussions of films that deal substantively with issues of science and technology, with a focus on science fiction. Science fiction encourages societies to think critically about science and technology but also inspires us to think imaginatively about other possible futures for the world. Now more than ever, it is important to build out critical discussions of science and technology, and this club creates a space for graduate students to reflect and bring these issues back into their academic work.
Science Teaching through Art (STAR)
Participating Department(s): All
Keyword(s): Science Outreach, Visual Design, Interactive Workshop
Contact: Eva de la Serna, edelase@stanford.edu
Website: http://scienceteachingthroughart.com/
The Science Teaching through Art (STAR) program teaches Stanford researchers how to use storytelling, art, and design principles to communicate their work to a general audience. Through a series of interactive workshops, participants design, create, and present effective visual aids to a variety of local audiences.
Scientists Speak Up
Participating Department(s): All
Keyword(s): Science Communication, Climate Change, Community Outreach
Contact: Kameron Rodrigues, kameron.rodrigues@stanford.edu
Scientists Speak Up seeks to empower the science community to communicate effectively to anyone about politically-charged science, focusing on climate change because it affects all science fields. Workshops review interdisciplinary climate science, solutions, and a versatile, highly effective interpersonal communication method. In meetings participants share successes and challenges for applying workshop material, discuss strategies to practice communication with diverse audiences, and discuss research relevant to climate change and its interdisciplinary, personal impact on our lives.
So, What Are You Working On? SWAYWO Conference at the GSE
Participating Department(s): All
Keyword(s): Conference, Education
Contact: Kimiko Lange, kimikol@stanford.edu
Website: http://web.stanford.edu/group/swaywo/cgi-bin/wordpress/
This annual conference at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) convenes students, faculty, alumni and others from the GSE in the sharing of research, passions, projects, and assignments. SWAYWO is run by students and provides a space to showcase current student work and build connections within the GSE as well as with the larger Stanford community. Any Stanford student, postdoc, staff member, or alumnus whose work is related to education is invited to present their research or degree-related work, at any stage of the process, within a collegial and supportive environment.
Sociology and Education Network (SAEN)
Participating Department(s): Education, Sociology
Keyword(s): Interdisciplinary, Workshop, Collaboration
Contact: Hannah D'Apice, hdapice@stanford.edu
SAEN is an interdisciplinary community of sociologists and education scholars at Stanford who meet bi-weekly to workshop research, talk about relevant issues in the field, and foster interdisciplinary networking and professional development.
SONAR (Stanford Ocean Networking And Research)
Participating Department(s): All, Biology, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Earth System Science, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
Keyword(s): Marine, Environment, Research
Contact: Meghan Shea, mshea@stanford.edu
Graduate students across myriad departments at Stanford use unique lenses to interpret and study marine environments, however, no unifying space exists to bring these students together. SONAR (Stanford Ocean Networking And Research) will foster an intellectual community for all marine-interested graduate students, to support interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration, highlight current debates related to marine environments, and facilitate discussion among students who ordinarily would not interact. SONAR will host several events each quarter, including invited seminar speakers, a focused reading group, graduate research talks, and more.
Stanford Biotechnology Group (SBG)
Participating Department(s): Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Biomedical Informatics, Biophysics, Business, Cancer Biology, Chemical and Systems Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Comparative Medicine, Computer Science, Dermatology, Developmental Biology, Economics, Genetics, Immunology, Management Science & Engineering, Medical Scientist Training Program, Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Structural Biology
Keyword(s): Biotechnology, Business, Healthcare
Contact: Stephanie Nevins, snevins@stanford.edu
Website: http://www.stanfordbiotechgroup.com/
The Stanford Biotechnology Group (SBG) is an organization run by and for Stanford life science graduate students, business students, and medical students who are interested in exploring careers in biotechnology business, management and investing. SBG facilitates opportunities for experiential education, hosts invited speakers, and provides relevant online content to allow members to survey the biotechnology landscape and prepare for careers in these fields. Annual events include career and summer internship panels, biotech landscape discussions, biotech company site visits, Startup Happy Hours, and more. SBG also teaches the popular INDE239 “Valuation of Public Companies in the Life Sciences” course.
Stanford Classics in Theater (SCIT)
Participating Department(s): Classics
Keyword(s): Theater, Ancient Drama, Outreach
Contact: Thomas Leibundgut, talug@stanford.edu
Website: https://scit.stanford.edu/
Stanford Classics in Theater (SCIT), a student initiative in the Classics department, adapts and performs works of ancient drama. Participants select a play for adaptation in Autumn, translate the play on a group retreat, and take on roles in the cast and crew in Winter and Spring. The combination of open casting and public performance fosters intra-departmental discussion, inter-departmental collaboration, and public engagement with Classics.
Stanford Department of Biology Surf 'n' Turf Symposium
Participating Department(s): Biology
Keyword(s): Interdisciplinary, Symposium, Research
Contact: Aurora Alvarez-Buylla, auroraab@stanford.edu
The Surf 'n' Turf Symposium bridges the gap between the Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey ("surf") and the main Stanford campus (“turf”), offering an exciting space for new science collaborations. Through lightning talks, posters, and workshops, communication is encouraged across the department’s two main specialties: Cell, Molecular, and Organismal Biology, and Ecology and Evolution.
Stanford Environmental and Behavior Group (SEB)
Participating Department(s): Business, Education, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Law, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology
Keyword(s): Environment, Behavior
Contact: Kiran Chawla, kiranpc@stanford.edu
Website: https://seb.stanford.edu/
The Stanford Environment and Behavior (SEB) Student Group facilitates learning, collaboration, and networking across disciplines among future leaders in environmental behavior research. It both provides interdisciplinary forums and organized events that bring students and scholars together and acts as a hub for information, resources, and contacts relevant to students and scholars with interests in environment and behavior topics. SEB aspires to increase awareness of current trends and research, provide an organized outlet for integrating knowledge and skills across disciplines, and spark collaboration.
Stanford GradsTeachGrads
Participating Department(s): All
Keyword(s): Network, Development
Contact: Nandita Bhaskhar, nanbhas@stanford.edu
Stanford GradsTeachGrads is an platform that aims to bring various graduate students together to share their skills, ranging from giving an elevator pitch to juggling basics. The group learns from one another in an informal setting and teaches skills that are rarely covered in academic programs or formal courses. We will hold tutorials, discussions, guest speaker sessions, and conduct empathetic interviews with students about things such as networking, designing a keynote address, end-to-end planning tips for paper writing, and other such topics related to professional development.
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Stanford Graduate Conference in Political Theory
Participating Department(s): Philosophy, Political Science
Keyword(s): Political Theory, Conference
Contact: Joseph Cloward, jcloward@stanford.edu
Website: https://stanfordpoliticaltheorygraduateconference.wordpress.com/
The Stanford Graduate Conference in Political Theory is an opportunity for students with normative political interests to present their work and receive feedback from the Stanford community of scholars. The conference strengthens the Stanford political theory community by 1) providing a professional development opportunity for graduate students to practice key skills such as selecting abstracts, providing commentary, and organizing logistics; and 2) connecting political theory students to scholars with normative political interests in other departments within the university and at other institutions.
Stanford Higher Education Exchange of Research (SHEER)
Participating Department(s): Anthropology, Business, Economics, Education, Political Science, Sociology
Keyword(s): Higher Education, Research Exchange, Workshop
Contact: Emily Schell, eschell@stanford.edu
SHEER offers students from different academic disciplines a place to develop and share ideas regarding the theories and functions of higher education. The monthly research workshop serves as a forum for burgeoning scholars to present works in progress and get feedback from knowledgeable peers. The gathering also creates a network of colleagues for interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange of career advice.
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Student Journal Club (SITP)
Participating Department(s): Physics
Keyword(s): Physics, Theoretical Physics, Seminar
Contact: Kfir Dolev, dolev@stanford.edu
The SITP student journal club provides a weekly space for students to discuss, learn about, and practice giving talks on various topics within theoretical physics. It is student-only and beginner-friendly.
Stanford International Policy Review
Participating Department(s): Business, Comparative Literature, Education, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, International Policy Studies, Law, Political Science
Keyword(s): International, Policy, Journal
Contact: Kelsi Caywood, kelsic@stanford.edu
Website: https://fsi.stanford.edu/sipr
The Stanford International Policy Review (SIPR) is a biannual student-run international affairs and public policy journal housed in the Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy. SIPR publishes articles, commentary, and book reviews on international policy topics from graduate students, policy practitioners, academics, and other professionals. To date, no existing graduate-level publication on campus fills this niche. SIPR is unique in its interdisciplinary scope; past issues featured writing spanning different academic and professional disciplines, including area studies, design thinking, and technology. SIPR has convened an interdisciplinary editorial board mentored by a faculty advisory board, creating new opportunities for student-faculty collaboration.
Stanford Materials Research Society
Participating Department(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Keyword(s): Community Building, Networking, Professional Development
Contact: Dana Cortade, dcortade@stanford.edu
Website: https://mrs.stanford.edu/
Stanford MRS, the student group representing the Materials Science and Engineering Department (MSE), encourages holistic intellectual development through mentoring, professional development, opportunities to showcase research through different lenses, networking activities, facetime with professors, and the chance for students to think about research in terms of artistic as well as scientific impact.
Stanford Partnership for International Education and Development
Participating Department(s): African Studies, Anthropology, Business, East Asian Studies, Education, Health Research & Policy, Iberian & Latin American Cultures, Latin American Studies, Medicine, Sociology
Keyword(s): International Education Development, Comparative Education
Contact: Hannah D'Apice, hdapice@stanford.edu
This project convenes individuals from across campus interested in issues of international education and development. Participants exchange ideas and engage in conversation with faculty, researchers, and practitioners in the field through dinners, guest presentations, student research presentations, and a Spring research colloquium.
Stanford Polymer Collective
Participating Department(s): Aeronautics & Astronautics, Applied Physics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biophysics, Chemical and Systems Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Energy Resources Engineering, Immunology, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, Physics, Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine
Keyword(s): Polymer, Interdisciplinary, Research
Contact: Joseph Louis Mann, jlmann@stanford.edu
Website: https://web.stanford.edu/group/polymercollective/cgi-bin/wordpress/?page_id=2035
Focused on Stanford's macromolecular research community, SPC offers a forum where scholars can build connections, develop professionally, and excel in a research environment. Regular events include invited speakers, lunch and learns, industry tours, K-12 science outreach, and an annual poster symposium.
Stanford Prison Education Project (SPEP)
Participating Department(s): All
Keyword(s): Education, Service, Growth
Contact: Sophie Allen, sallen2@stanford.edu
The Stanford Prison Education Project (SPEP) provides educational services to incarcerated individuals at two local jails: San Francisco County Jail #5 in San Bruno and Maple St. Correctional Facility in San Mateo, offering graduate students across the university an opportunity to develop and co-teach interdisciplinary seminars in those settings.
Stanford Psychology BIPOC Affinity Group
Participating Department(s): Psychology
Keyword(s): Psychology, BIPOC, Community
Contact: Akshay Jagadeesh, akshayj@stanford.edu
Stanford Psychology BIPOC Affinity Group is a dedicated space and intellectual community for Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) within the Stanford psychology department. Members of our community, who are experts on the psychology of race and identity, will lead discussion sessions on their research and its implications for us. We will invite BIPOC psychology scholars from other institutions to virtually present their research examining the role of race in academia and how it affects building and maintaining inclusive, diverse academic communities. We will also hold journal and book clubs prior to these presentations to familiarize ourselves with the relevant psychological research.
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Stanford Science Policy Group
Participating Department(s): All
Keyword(s): Policy, Advocacy
Contact: Callie Chappell, calliech@stanford.edu
The Stanford Science Policy Group (SSPG) is the first student organization dedicated to science policy at Stanford. Our aim is to educate and empower Stanford graduate students to connect their research with science policy and advocacy. SSPG hosts a speaker series aimed at exposing current Stanford graduate students in STEM to policy careers. They also host professional development workshops aimed at teaching key policy and advocacy skills to graduate students.
STATS: Student Talks in Applied and Theoretical Statistics
Participating Department(s): Statistics
Keyword(s): Statistics, Presentation Skills, Networking
Contact: Benjamin Seiler, bbseiler@stanford.edu
STATS is a full-weekend student conference for students to present their academic work, learn about the work of their peers, and receive feedback in a friendly, welcoming setting.
The Animal Studies Working Group
Participating Department(s): All
Keyword(s): Animals, Nature, Ecology
Contact: Aaron Hopes, ahopes@stanford.edu
The Animal Studies Working Group offers a platform for transdisciplinary inquiry in the field of Animal Studies via a regular reading and discussion group, invited speaker presentations, and opportunities to workshop drafts of a dissertation chapter, article, or conference paper.
The Black and Brown Identity Collective (B2IC)
Participating Department(s): All
Keyword(s): Identity, Community, Writing
Contact: Greses Perez, greses@stanford.edu
Graduate students rarely have intentional spaces where writing and identity are centered, discussed, and contested. If available, these spaces rarely advance our writing projects in an interdisciplinary community. The Black and Brown Identity Collective (B2IC) creates an intellectual community where students engage with the histories of Black,Indigenous and/or Latinx scholars and incorporate their identities in their scholarship. Four Stanford graduate students propose to expand out to the intergenerational student community through B2IC. This project will allow us to host writing sessions and colloquiums to prepare us for a career as public intellectuals, where writing for diverse audiences is integral.
The Gradient
Participating Department(s): Computer Science
Keyword(s): Machine Learning, Digital Magazine
Contact: Hugh Zhang, hughz@stanford.edu
Website: https://thegradient.pub/
The Gradient is a digital magazine covering the cutting edge in machine learning. They aim to enable researchers, and in particular graduate students focused on machine learning, to write about complex topics in an accessible way, while still going deep enough that researchers would still find the article useful. Our primary audience is anyone who is interested in machine learning but who does not necessarily have any background in the specific subfield being discussed.
Workshop on Literature and Theory in India
Participating Department(s): Anthropology, Classics, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Geophysics
Keyword(s): Archaeology, Lecture, Anthropology
Contact: Radhika Koul, rkoul@stanford.edu
Few centers of inquiry at Stanford devote resources to bringing the literary wealth of India into dialogue with Western thought. The Workshop on Literature and Theory in India seeks to continue to develop a space on campus for such conversations by bringing together members of Stanford’s scholarly community spread across the DLCL, East Asian Studies, Linguistics and Religious Studies with Indologists from outside the Stanford community. A highlight of the Workshop in 2020-21 will be The Koshur Fellowship, an online, immersive introduction to Kashmiri, which is a language that has never been taught at Stanford.