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Stanford doctoral student Dorothy Tovar has been selected to serve as an IF/THEN ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The role comes with financial support for her work providing mentorship and encouragement to girls interested in STEM fields.
Three women, each acclaimed for their leadership in the field of education, sat together in Levinthal Hall at the Stanford Humanities Center sharing stories of their pathways to leadership. Each of the panelists had once been a president of Foothill College, a top community college in California,...
A high-pressure, high-stakes environment like Stanford can sometimes make a person doubt themselves and think “I’m not good enough, I don’t belong here” or “I’m not really that smart.”
There’s a name for the feelings that lead to these thoughts. It’s called impostor syndrome.
“It’s the unconscious...
Few people within the Stanford community likely have as much experience as university archaeologist Laura Jones with the issues involved in renaming university landmarks celebrating Junipero Serra, the 18th-century Spanish missionary who founded the California Mission system.
