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2007

Robert Pringle, William R. and Sara Hart Kimball Fellow (Biological Sciences) is lead author of a study published in the January 2 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Rob and his colleagues examined the dramatic effects of removing large herbivores from the African savannah ecosystem. The study was conducted at the Mpala Research Centre in Nanyuki, Kenya. (1/07)

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Nick Van Buer, Burt and Deedee McMurtry Fellow, and Liz Clark, Eugene Holman Fellow, both in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, volunteer in the School of Earth Sciences outreach program, GeoKids. This popular program is designed to teach 6-year old school children the fundamentals of geological science(1/07).

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Dr. Andrei Bernevig, an Albion Walter Hewlett Fellow from 2002-2005 (and now an Associate Research Scholar at the Princton Center for Theoretical Physics) and Taylor Hughes, currently an  NSF - Dr. Robert N. Noyce Fellow (Physics), were part of the team of researchers led by Professor Shoucheng Zhang that theorizes a new state of matter, called the quantum Spin Hall state, that exists in semiconductors. This research was published in the Dec. 15 th issue of the journal Science and may help to pave the way for electronic devices that generate less heat and dissipate less energy (1/07).

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Shuhong Liu, a Gabilan Fellow from 2003 to 2006 in Materials Sciences and Engineering, was co-author of a study published in the December 14 issue of Nature. The study describes advances that will point the way toward manufacturing truly useful flexible electronics with high-performance organic transistors (1/07).

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2006

Morgan Quigley, an Honorary Stanford Graduate Fellow who is a National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship recipient (Computer Science), was part of a large effort by the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot (STAIR) project that included 10 computer science professors and close to 30 students to develop a robot that could see an unfamiliar object and judge the best spot to grasp it. Funding for the project has come from the National Science Foundation, DARPA and industrial technology companies Intel, Honda, Ricoh, and Google.(11/06)

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Emily Desmarais, a Robert and Marvel Kirby Fellow from 2002 to 2005 (Geophysics), is co-author of a study of "silent" earthquakes published in the July 6 2006 issue of Nature. The study was a call to other researchers asking them to collect data about these small quakes in areas like the Pacific Northwest that are periodically rocked by earthquakes of magnitude 8 or more.   The research focused on 4 silent earthquakes that struck Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island between 1998 and 2005.

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Dr. Margy Gentile, James Clark Fellow (2000 - 2003) and recipient of EPA STARS Fellowship and Dr. Jennifer Nyman, also a James Clark Fellow (2000 - 2003) and a recipient of a NSF Fellowship were both part of a six-year project that examined how microbes in uranium contaminated soil can be used to make groundwater safe. The study was published in the June 15, 2006 issue of Environmental Science and Technology. The $4.6 million project was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and took place at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

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David Stavens, David Cheriton Fellow (Computer Science), is the first student speaker in the video clip at a a Feb. 28 ceremony honoring Stanford engineering students. Read more about David and Stanley, and the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge (3/06).

Carrie Kappel, a NSF-Gabilan Fellow from 2000-2003, and Danna Shulman, a current NSF-Gabilan Fellow, are two of more than 20 Biological Sciences graduate students at Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey. Shulman expects her that her research is likely to be focused on the early life history of the jumbo squid. Kappel specializes in marine community ecology and conservation biology. Kappel sums up the sentiments echoed by many graduate students at the Hopkins Marine station: “It’s a pretty special place.” (1/06)
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Two SGFs from Geological and Environmental Sciences, Dr. Megan Young, who was a Gabilan Fellow from 1999 to 2002, and Joseph Street, a Chevron Fellow, are part of a team of five researchers in Dr. Adina Paytan's group, whose work establishes groundwater as a key source of nutrients to coral reefs. The group collected large-volume water samples from reefs in Hawaii, Mexico, the Red Sea, Mauritius and Florida. The findings are published in the 2006 issue of limnology and Oceanography (1/06).
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David Stavens, David Cheriton Fellow (Computer Science), talked about the bar in the desert that became headquarters for the Stanford Racing Team, winners of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. “We’d go there, sit in a booth, do some coding, go out and test, come back, do some more coding," recalls Stavens. The subject of their coding was Stanley, an SUV that autonomously navigated a 132-mile loop of narrow dirt roads, and avoided obstacles like a 100-foot cliff. The winning time of 6 hours and 54 minutes resulted in the presentation of a check for $2 million to Sebastian Thrun, leader of the Stanford Racing Team and Director of the Stanford AI Lab. A significant portion of the prize will be allocated for graduate fellowships in artificial intelligence at Stanford (January/February 2006).
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Andrew Hooper (Geophysics), named a Robert and Marvel Kirby Fellow in 2000, presented his research findings at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco in December. Andy's work expands the applications of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and its capability to generate more robust measurements of the Earth's movements. With Professor Howard Zebker, the two are using a novel technique called InSAR Persistent Scattering (PS) to align data points on terrains where use of conventional InSAR has proven difficult. By applying PS to radar readings from the lush environs of Mount St. Helens and the Sierra Negra crater of the Galapagos, Hooper was able to successfully examine crustal deformation around these volcanoes (1/06).
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2005

Dr. Ryan O'Hayre, Mr. and Mrs. Chun Chiu Fellow from 1999 to 2002 (Materials Science and Engineering PHD '04) is first author of Fuel Cell Fundamentals, published by John Wiley. Ryan's advisor and co-author Professor Fritz Prinz says few texts are dedicated to fuel cells and virtually none have homework problems to help students hone their skills and theoretical understanding(10/05).
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Nikhil Ravi, Mayfield Fellow (Mechanical Engineering) works in the Dynamic Design Laboratory led by Professor Chris Gerdes. A project recently infused with $2.5 M to work with General Motors and Bosch, works to speed the development of HCCI (homogenous charge compression ignition) technology (10/05).
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Megan Frederickson, a Gabilan Fellow from 2001 to 2004 (Biological Sciences) is first author of an article in Nature detailing findings from a four-year field study she led in the Amazon jungle of western Peru. It is the first report of an ant species that produces its own natural herbicide to poison unwanted plants (9/05).
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In a Physics Review Letter paper, B. Andrei Bernevig, Albion Walter Hewlett Fellow, and Taylor Hughes (NSF-Dr. Robert N. Noyce Fellow) both doctoral students in Physics, put forth a theory of how to use silicon in a technology they dubbed orbitronics (9/05).
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Geophysicists have a new tool for studying the Earth's interior, reported in the July 28 issue of the journal Nature. The tool is a gift from physicists who study neutrinos. One of the authors, Nikolai Tolich, a Benchmark Fellow from 2000 - 2003 (Physics), received his doctorate this year, as a result of work reported in the article. Dr. Tolich is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (8/05).
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Congratulations to Ioan Vlad, a Burt and Deedee McMurtry Fellow from 2000 - 2003 (Geological and Environmental Sciences) who was recognized with a Centennial Teaching Assistant Award (June 2005).
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Steven Teo, E. K. Potter Fellow (Biological Sciences) says any western tuna that swims to the east of the 45 meridian can end up as part of the vastly larger eastern catch. Stephen is co-author of a study in Nature that offers substantial evidence that significant changes are needed in how Atlantic bluefin tuna fisheries are managed internationally and in the United States(4/05).
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Dr. Jackie Hua, an E. K. Potter Fellow from 1999-2002 (Neurosciences) created a zebrafish with poorly firing neurons. Through technical finesse, the work, published in a study in Nature, examines how brain chooses which connections to keep and which to prune -- findings that could help to explain how early experiences guide brain development. (5/05).
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Timothy Bretl, Herbert Kunzel Fellow (Aeronautics and Astronautics)works on LEMUR, the Legged Excursion Mechanical Utility Rover, and is the product of a joint venture between Stanford and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (March/April 2005).
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Pamela McLeod, the William and Martha Campbell Fellow from 2001-2004 (Civil and Environmental Engineering) is pictured harvesting clams that have spent a month in the muck. Her work shows how activated carbon can prevent PCPs from entering the aquatic food chain (January/February 2005).
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2004
Glen Jeh, Junglee Corporation Fellow, (Computer Science) is co-founder of a company purchased by Google (November/December 2004).
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Congratulations to Ozgur Sahin,T.J. Rodgers Fellow(Electrical Engineering), who is the grand prize winner of this year's Collegiate Inventor's Competition (10/04).
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Paula Spaeth, a Gabilan Fellow from 2001 to 2003 (Biological Sciences), is a co-author of a study in the September 7 online edition of the journal PLoS Biology and part of the research team that has found a direct relationship between global warming and the evolution of contemporary wildlife (9/04).
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Pamela McLeod, William and Martha Campbell Fellow (Civil and Environmental Engineering) is pictured with an Aquamog - a Rototiller-like machine that floats on water - on an experiment that involves mixing activated carbon into sediment to prevent pollutants such as PCBs from entering the aquatic food chain (9/04).
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Kimberly Cahill, a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow (IPER), and Claire Lunch, a Gabilan Fellow (Biological Sciences) are two of the co-authors of a study published in the August 16 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that indicates global climate change could significantly alter life in California by the end of the century (8/04).
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More than 1,600 scientists and researchers worldwide have signed the challenge to the White House that was posted at www.scienceinpolicy.org last November.   Stephen Porder, Smith Fellow (Biological Sciences) is a principal author of the statement that argues that the Bush administration is distorting and disregarding scientific evidence on a scale "far beyond" its recent predecessors. (7/04).
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Stephen Moysey, Chevron Fellow (Geophysics) will receive the Centennial Teaching Assistant Award at commencement on June 12 (6/04).
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Michael Tice, a William R. and Sara Hart Kimball Fellow from 1999 to 2002 (Geological and Environmental Sciences) co-authored a May 25 article in the journal Geology that describes the geologic record revealed in some of Earth's oldest rocks. Michael's advisor and co-author Professor Donald Lowe explained, "This is really the first time we've tried to put together a picture of how the early atmosphere, early climate and early continental evolution went hand in hand" (5/04).
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Jatinder Pal Singh, P. Michael Farmwald Fellow (Electrical Engineering) is exploring how to bring broadband wireless Internet access to passengers on high-speed trains in Europe. As part of the FMA (Faculty/Mentor/Adviser) program at the Stanford Networking Research Center (SNRC), Jatinder gets advice on his doctoral research from German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom (DT). His mentor, Volkmar Scharf-Katz, is vice president and chief technology officer of DT subsidiary Detecon, and his advisor is Nicholas Bambos, professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Management Science and Engineering(5/04).
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Peter Brende, Texas Instruments Fellow (Electrical Engineering) is a co-author of a May 14 Science article that gives new insight into the possibility that a pair of oscillating master regulator genes is what drives bacterial cell division. From Professor Harley McAdams' lab, Peter's statistical analysis of which of genes rise and fall during the cell cycle in Caulobacter assisted with identifying a second regulator gene, GcrA(5/04).
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Paul Yih, Claudia and William Coleman Foundation Fellow (Mechanical Engineering), is quoted in the May 5 Stanford Report article about his advisor's spin in a cool Corvette steered by a novel combination of global positioning system (GPS) and computer technologies and... no hands. Paul is doing research on drive-by-wire technology and is one of ten doctoral students under the wing of Assistant Professor Chris Gerdes(5/04).
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Young Min Rhee, Mayfield Fellow (Chemistry), is lead author of a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS. Young Min, Professor Vijay Sande, and other Stanford Researchers developed and validated a sophisticated simulation to study protein folding. The groundbreaking work provides a new understanding of how individual water molecules affect protein folding. Young Min was one of sixteen speakers at the 2004 SGF Research Symposium where he decribed this work in his talk, What Does Water Do While Proteins Fold? (4/04).
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Roger Wang, NSF - Dr. Robert N. Noyce Fellow (Electrical Engineering) is pictured in the April 28 Stanford Report article announcing the formation of the IBM-Stanford Spintronic Science and Applications Center (SpinAps, for short) (4/04).
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Mehmet Fatih Yanik, a Melvin and Joan Lane Fellow (Applied Physics) explains how the first-ever blueprint for capturing light on a chip came about. He and electrical engineering assistant professor Shanhui Fan's paper describing the system appeared in the Feb 27 issue of Physical Review Letters. Through collaboration with scientists at Agilent Technologies and Thomas Lee, associate professor of electrical engineering, Yanik is working on research to address the technological feasibility of this approach (3/04).
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Eran Segal, a David Cheriton Fellow from 1999 to 2003 (Computer Science), is a member of Professor Daphne Koller's research group and one of several collaborators developing specialized computational tools that provide scientists with targeted hypotheses to predict gene regulatory networks. At a recent AAAS meeting Professor Koller discussed their strategic approach to mining genomic data (2/04).
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2003

Alexander Aravanis began his Stanford graduate career in 1997 as a Thomas V. Jones - National Science Foundation Fellow (Electrical Engineering). Now an M.D./ Ph.D. student in the Medical Scientist Training Program, his research in the laboratory group of Professor Richard Tsien is described in the Fall 2003 issue of Stanford Medicine. The research overturns long-held beliefs about how the nervous system works and how nerves move neurotransmitters from inside a cell out into a synapse. Alexander was first author of the findings published in the June 5, 2003 issue of Nature (Fall 2003).
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Neville Mehenti, Abbott Laboratories Fellow (Chemical Engineering) is part of the team that will present the first complete design for a chip that functions like the natural retina of the eye at the annual meeting of American Institute of Chemical Engineers in San Francisco. Chemical engineer Stacey Bent and ophthalmologist Harvey Fishman lead this ambitious interdisciplinary project hoping to bring solutions to those suffering from macular degeneration -the leading cause of blindness among Americans over age 65 (11/03).
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Haibo Liu, Melvin and Joan Lane Fellow (Chemistry) is lead author of an October 31 article in Science describing a new molecule dubbed 'xDNA'. Co-author Jianmin Gao, General Wang Yaowu Fellow (Chemistry) and Haibo Liu are members of Professor Eric Kool's research group which focuses on the design of new and useful molecules that interact with or mimic biological systems. Professor Kool explains this expanded DNA is "a genetic system that's completely new and unlike any living system on Earth" (11/03).
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Kate Saul, Whitaker Foundation-Medtronic Foundation Fellow (Mechanical Engineering) is featured in a Stanford Magazine article about participating in THE GAME, a puzzle-solving race where words like cryptogram, ASCII and PerlScript are parlance for the course. Her team, Blood and Bones, tied for third but swiftly demolished the ice cream clue (11/03).
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Hans Bechtel, a graduate student in Chemistry (Stanford Graduate Fellowship - Anonymous, 1999-2002) and others in the research group of Professor Richard Zare (Chemistry) observed that when atomic hydrogen and methane react, the products scatter in unexpected directions. The observation employed use of a sophisticated laser technique developed at Stanford and yielded surprising results about a reaction thought to be well understood (10/03).
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Eric Olivares is a 1998 Stanford Graduate Fellow and a 2003 Ph.D. graduate from Genetics who worked on research that hopes to achieve a long-term goal of delivering a therapeutic gene to muscles to treat muscular dystrophy. A mouse with a glowing leg muscle may signal early success (10/03).
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Rui Zhang-Shen, Lillie Family Fellow (Electrical Engineering) and part of Professor Nick McKeown's High Performance Networking Group, was named in the Stanford Report article anouncing that the National Science Foundation has given Professor McKeown and his colaborators from seven other institutions $7.5 million to investigate the technical possibilities of a once-in-a-century overhaul of the Internet (10/03).
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Jason DeVoss, NSF-Smith Fellow (Immunology), a new PHD graduate, is pictured in Stanford Report with cap and gown, and interviewed in the accompanying article (6/03).
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Craig Foster, ARCS Foundation Fellow (Civil & Environmental Engineering) was awarded the Centennial Teaching Award at commencement this year (6/03).
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Wendelin Wright, NSF-Lillie Family Fellow (Materials Science and Engineering) has been honored with the Walter J. Gores award, the university's highest teaching honor. This prestigious recognition was given at Commencement on June 15th, when she was also awarded her Ph.D. (6/03).
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Matthew Brennan, Burt and Deedee McMurtry Fellow (Civil & Environmental Engineering), praises Jill Fong in the Stanford Report article announcing Fong's receipt of the Amy J. Blue Award (5/03).
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Francois Conti, Hewlett-Packard Fellow (Computer Science) is featured in a Stanford Report article describing his haptics research in the research group of Professor Kenneth Salisbury, a faculty member in the Robotics Lab at Stanford. The article's author is Jessica Ruvinsky NSF-SGF(Anonymous Fellowship), a doctoral student in Biological Sciences who is also a science writer intern for Stanford News Service (4/03).
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Eric Allison, William R. and Sara Hart Kimball Fellow (Aeronautics and Astronautics), was a member of the Student Activity Space Task Force. The interim report recommendations are listed in a Stanford Report article (3/03).
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Kwee-Yan Teh, Office of Technology Licensing Fellow (Mechanical Engineering), was appointed to the search committee for the position of vice provost and dean of research and graduate policy by Provost John Etchemendy. The committee hopes to make recommendations in early May for the successor to Charles Kruger, who is stepping down (3/03).
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Charles Kruger, Vice Provost and Dean of Research and Graduate Policy, and Pat Jones,Vice Provost for Faculty Development have organized a series of Tuesday afternoon talks for the Spring Quarter called "Research Universities - Stanford, A Case Study." All members of the Stanford Community are invited. Students may enroll for credit (3/03).
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Jonathan Clark, a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering (William R. and Sara Hart Kimball Fellow, 1998 to 2001) is featured in an article and videotape describing his research in the sprawls robot program. The laboratory is one of the few that manufactures robots that are biomimetic and hexapedal. (3/03).
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Shelley Force Aldred, a Geraldine Jackson Fuhrman Fellow from 1999 to 2002, describes her genetics research in a Stanford Medicine article and her use of ProPhylER, software that's been developed by Arend Sinow, professor of pathology and genetics (Winter 2003).
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Lu Shan, Chevron Fellow (Chemical Engineering) is first author of a Science article about her research to identify the cause of a common immune disorder, celiac sprue (September 27 2002). Stanford Medicine explains how the work got started. (Winter 2003).
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Nikolai Tolich, Benchmark Fellow (Physics) is one of 92 physics collaborators who recently published results in Physical Review Letters from the first six months of experiments at KamLAND, an underground neutrino detector in Japan. The observation of disappearing anti-neutrinos supports the case for neutrino mass and indicates the that the Standard Model of Particle Physics, which has successfully explained fundamental physics since the 1970s, is in need of updating (1/03).
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2002

Eric Olivares is a 1998 Stanford Graduate Fellow mentioned in a recent press release about a newly published gene therapy technique that eliminates one of the major health risks of this treatment approach. (10/02).
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Jessica Murray, a Chevron Fellow from 1998 to 2001 (Geophysics), is co-author of a September 9 study in Nature that is raising serious questions about a fundamental technique for making long-range earthquake predictions. (9/02).
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Daniel Rutherford, a Gerhard Casper - EPA STAR Fellow from 1999 to 2002, will continue his Civil and Environmental Engineering studies in Japan during the 2002-2003 academic year on a Fulbright Scholarship. Dan will conduct fieldwork for his dissertation on the design and implementation of climate change policies by local governments in Japan (6/02).
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Isaac Keslassy, Wakerly Fellow (Electrical Engineering) won second prize in the contest to guess the contents of the time capsule buried by Jane Stanford in 1898 and discovered during building renovation last year(4/02).
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Ann Goldstein, HHMI-Stanford Graduate Fellow (Neurosciences) is part of an international research team that identified the specific genes that control the growth and development of brain cells in fruit flies. Ann is a co-author of a March 28 article in Nature describing the research (4/02).
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Patrick Mang, Kenneth and Nina Tai Fellow (Applied Physics) is a co-author of a March 1 Science article with researchers in Assistant Professor Martin Greven's group. A Stanford Report article displays the exotic crystals they've made with properties that eluded physical description (3/02).
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James D. Ayers, Hertz Foundation - Stanford Graduate Fellow 1998-2001 (Chemistry) is co-author of a report in the March 7 issue of Nature which is the first of more than a thousand papers written about the hydrogen exchange reaction to combine theory and experiment pointing to a new time-delayed reaction mechanism (3/02).
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2001

Michael Laub, HHMI-SGF Fellow (Developmental Biology), is part of the Stanford team that received a $2.5 million grant to study the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus. The project's primary goal is to understand how all of the approximately 3,800 genes of the C.cresentus genome communicate with one another (11/01). Read the full story.
Steven L.H. Teo, E. K. Potter Fellow (Biological Sciences) is a co-author of an article in Science (August 17) describing Atlantic bluefin tuna tagging research that is providing significant insights into the migrations, diving patterns, thermal biology and environmental preferences of the prized warm-blooded giants (8/01).
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John Townend, ARCO Fellow (Geophysics) and Eva Zanzerkia, Robert and Marvel Kirby Fellow (Geophysics) each spoke about their research at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America, which was held in San Francisco to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the city's 1906 earthquake (4/01).
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Serge Saxonov, James Clark Fellow (Biomedical Informatics), is running the computer program eMOTIF on all 30,000 proteins in the human genome. Xiole Liu, Lucille P. Markey Biomedical Research Fellow (Biomedical Informatics), has developed a software program called Bioprospector, that looks for DNA motifs. Both are mentioned in a Stanford Medicine article about the laboratory of Professor Doug Brutlag (Winter/Spring 2001).
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Lin He, Smith Fellow (Genetics), working in Professor Greg Barsh's laboratory, studies how the protein attractin affects weight regulation (2/01).
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Michael Laub, HHMI-SGF Fellow (Developmental Biology), is the lead author of article in the December 15, 2000 issue of Science. A unique analysis employing systems engineering principles to a study of the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus shows the bacterium's genes function like sophisticated factories (1/01).
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2000

Michael Shirts, Hertz-SGF Fellow (Chemistry), and Professor Vijay Pande use a screensaver program and more than 10,000 volunteers to solve problems in the biological realm. An article in the December 8, 2000 issue of Science describes Folding@home, an Internet program that calculates how proteins achieve their three-dimensional shape (12/00).
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Raymond Wang, NSF-Weiland Family Fellow (Electrical Engineering), wins Stanford's Concerto Competition (11/00).
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Honorary Stanford Graduate Fellow, Fotini Katopodes, will develop and apply analytic techniques and numeric tools. Stanford professors and students evaluate data from 40 sources in Utah balloon study of weather and smog (10/00).
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Matthew Reidenbach, Wells Family Fellow (1997-2000), is pictured next to an acoustic Doppler current profiler(10/00).
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Melvin and Joan Lane Fellow Li Gong studies virtual voice technology (7/00).
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Stanford Graduate Fellow Tom Tombler and E.K. Potter Fellow Jing Kong, both from Chemistry, study nanotubes. An article in the July 15, 2000 issue of Nature summarizes the first demonstration of how mechanical deformations can affect a molecular wire's electrical properties (7/00).
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Leo Sugrue, Lucille P. Markey Biomedical Research Fellow (Neurosciences), authors a Stanford Medicine article describing a seventh grader's fascination of the brain coupled with a returning wonder of the brain's mystery that is sometimes faded by the glow of laboratory lights (Spring 2000).
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Graduate Scholars Fly Free. The micro-helicopter research of Hugh H. Skilling Stanford Graduate Fellow Peter Kunz (Aeronautics and Astronautics)is highlighted in Stanford Magazine (5/00).
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President Casper announces Stanford Graduate Fellowships Program reaches $200 million endowment goal. Thanks to the contributions of alumni, non-alumni, foundations and corporations, the endowment has reached $200,427,275, which will provide ongoing support to at least 300 of the university's most promising doctoral students in sciences and engineering each year (4/00).
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Jing Kong, E.K. Potter Stanford Graduate Fellow (Chemistry) and Shu Peng, Gabilan Stanford Graduate Fellow (Mechanical Engineering) help invent poison gas sensors. They and fellow Stanford researchers recently published their invention in Science. The tiny sensors detect trace amounts of harmful gases such as Ammonia and Nitrogen Dioxide (1/00).
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1999

Smith Stanford Graduate Fellow (1997-1999) Noam Sobel researches why we have two nostrils. Apparently, they each smell differently, and their roles shift throughout the day. Head of the Olfactory Research Project in the Department of Psychology, Dr. Noam Sobel is the first Stanford Graduate Fellow to be awarded a doctorate (Neurosciences Program). He and his colleagues published their results in Nature (11/99).
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Gabilan Stanford Graduate Fellow Elizabeth Gerken (Electrical Engineering) photographs atmospheric sprites. Working typically past midnight in the chilly night air of the mountain-top observatory, Gerken successfully recorded the most detailed images of this elusive atmospheric phenomenon ever taken (1/99).
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