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SPICE: Student Projects for Intellectual Community Enhancement

About SPICE

SPICE (Student Projects for Intellectual Community Enhancement) funds allow graduate students to develop projects and activities that promote intellectual community in their departments and beyond.

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The 2020 SPICE application is now closed.

2020 applicant notifications will be sent by mid-August.

Contact vpgeapplications@stanford.edu with any questions.

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May 7 2020 | Stanford News
Stanford students are among the university affiliates who are helping to meet the challenges created by COVID-19. In the weeks since the pandemic shut down the Stanford campus, students from across the university have stepped up to help address the virus and its ramifications, often in their home...
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A small lab providing COVID-19 testing to residents in two nearby counties is getting some much-needed support from Stanford students. In March, the Monterey County Public Health Lab was struggling to meet demand for COVID-19 testing. Working around the clock to process tests, the lab’s small staff...
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Feb 10 2020 | Stanford Medicine
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Jan 23 2020 | Stanford News
One night in the spring of 2017, geology PhD student Zack Burton’s graduate career was derailed after a series of delusions led him to the top of a campus parking garage, where he seriously considered hurting himself. The crisis, which sent him to the emergency department and into therapy, forced...