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Stacey Bent to step down in early 2025
Stacey Bent, vice provost for graduate education and postdoctoral affairs, has completed a five-year term and will step down.
August 23, 2024
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Paula Welander named associate vice provost for graduate education and postdoctoral affairs
The professor of Earth system science will focus on supporting graduate students and postdoctoral scholars as they prepare for careers in academia.
June 04, 2024
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Journey to Leadership: Paula Welander's Path at Stanford | Advice for Grad Students
In this video, Paula Welander, Associate Dean for Integrative Initiatives in DEI, Professor of Environmental Earth System Science, and the newly appointed Faculty AVP...
June 03, 2024
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Unlocking Success: Dustin Liu on Life Design Lab Resources for Stanford Grad Students
In this video, join Dustin Liu, Lecturer and Fellow at Stanford's Life Design Lab, as he dives into the department's mission, the top resources available for graduate students...
June 03, 2024
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Sitting idle boosts the performance of lithium metal batteries for next-generation EVs
Stacey F. Bent, vice provost for graduate education and postdoctoral affairs and professor of chemical engineering, is co-author of the study.
February 07, 2024
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Beavers will become a bigger boon to river water quality as U.S. West warms, Stanford study finds
American beaver populations are booming in the western United States as conditions grow hotter and drier.
November 08, 2022
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How much microplastic do whales eat? Up to 10 million pieces per day, Stanford research finds
The largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth ingest the tiniest specks of plastic in colossal amounts, Stanford University scientists have found.
November 01, 2022
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Stanford engineers create a catalyst that can turn carbon dioxide into gasoline 1,000 times more efficiently
Engineers working to reverse the proliferation of greenhouse gases know that in addition to reducing carbon dioxide emissions we will also need to remove carbon
February 09, 2022
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Stacey Bent: I’m interested in fundamentals, motivated by applications
Stacey Bent is a professor of Chemical Engineering and Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs.
February 02, 2022
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Stanford scholars examine systemic racism, how to advance racial justice in America
An unrelenting pandemic that continues to disproportionately affect communities of color, ongoing roadblocks to obstruct efforts to expand the franchise and protect
February 01, 2022
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Stanford’s DARE fellowship prepares doctoral students for academic careers
Today’s highly competitive faculty job market can be challenging to navigate for aspiring academics, particularly those from underrepresented communities.
January 31, 2022
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‘It is incredibly powerful when we see each other’
Elizabeth Reese was 15 and a prospective freshman when she first set foot on the Stanford campus.
January 11, 2022
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Stanford engineers and physicists study quantum characteristics of ‘combs’ of light
Unlike the jumble of frequencies produced by the light that surrounds us in daily life, each frequency of light in a specialized light source known as a “soliton
December 16, 2021
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Stanford research reveals a hidden obstacle for women in academia
For more than a decade,
December 16, 2021
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Stanford engineers develop a robotic hand with a gecko-inspired grip
Across a vast array of robotic hands and clamps, there is a common foe: the heirloom tomato.
December 15, 2021
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Stanford researchers test physics of coral as an indicator of reef health
Vast amounts of energy flow around the ocean as waves, tides and currents, eventually impacting coasts, including coral reefs that provide food, income and coast
December 14, 2021
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Underrepresented groups the fastest growing among Stanford’s graduate student population
Years of enrollment data analyzed by the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education reveal that underrepresented minorities (URM) and women in STEM fields
December 08, 2021
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Stanford researchers reveal how to turn a global warming liability into a profitable food security solution
Like a mirage on the horizon, an innovative process for converting a potent greenhouse gas into a food security solution has been stalled by economic uncertainty
November 22, 2021
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Sierra Nevada range should celebrate two birthdays
When geologist Elizabeth Miller started mapping a fault system in Death Valley, she questioned the origin of some sedimentary rocks previously assumed to be locally
November 15, 2021
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Stanford researchers design a frugal way to study complex systems and materials
To celebrate the 60th birthday of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway in 1889, the journal Acta Mathematica offered a prize for manuscripts that could he
November 15, 2021