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PhD students are essential to nearly all of Stanford’s 7,500 research projects each year. See how three fellows are crossing disciplines to generate original knowledge, fuel breakthroughs, and get their research into the world.
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Polly Fordyce is building a global engine for protein discovery—one that could help researchers harness AI to create new medicines, materials, and climate solutions.
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Stanford’s Pathfinder program opens the GSB to students who never planned on studying business—and transforms what they’re capable of.
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Surya Ganguli is helping pioneer a new science of intelligence—one that studies how brains perceive, how AI learns, and what each can reveal about the other.
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How Yejin Choi is challenging AI’s biggest assumptions—about common sense, about scale, and about who gets to build the future.
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As a Stanford undergraduate, William Tarpeh learned to spot problems others ignore. Financial aid gave him a path forward—all the way to a MacArthur Fellowship.
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As oceans warm and ecosystems shift, Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station is helping detect trouble early—and prevent collapse before it begins.
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A Stanford alum is betting on a humble legume to help rebuild the island’s fragile food system—starting in backyard farms.
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With a spreadsheet as his compass, Coach Kyle Smith is rebuilding Stanford basketball through quantifiable toughness—and the players are embracing it.
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David Fiorentino’s pursuit of hidden patterns in autoimmune disease is transforming patient care—and may lead to new strategies for cancer prevention. (A little help from his old Stanford pals didn’t hurt.)
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As a high school student, taking a year of college courses transformed Lerone Martin’s sense of what was possible. As a Stanford professor, he’s now offering that same experience to students too often excluded from elite higher education.