Summer 2018 graduate student retrospective

From studying in the African bush to developing medical technology on campus, here’s what graduate students did this summer.

By Alex Kekauoha

If summer were meant to be a time for leisure, you wouldn’t know it by talking to Stanford grad students and researchers. Over the past few months, many have been busy building, investigating, traveling, teaching and contributing to their fields.

One student returned to his home state to understand how a new tax policy could impact small towns. Another was on campus using 3D printing to build cardiac surgical devices. Meanwhile, a team of students traveled to Africa to learn effective mentoring and field techniques on an expedition designed to provide new perspectives on ethical ecotourism.

Check out the research a few of your peers did this summer.

Three Stanford students win art awards, take part in San Francisco exhibition

Three Stanford graduate art and art history students received scholarships and presented their work as part of an annual exhibition dedicated to the future of the Bay Area visual arts.

Teaching & Students

A novel approach to cardiac surgery

Stanford medical student Kevin Cyr is part of a team of researchers using 3D printing to build custom cardiac surgical devices.

Teaching & Students

Grad student takes to the road to explore how low-income communities could benefit from new tax law

This summer, graduate student Cody Evans is exploring low-income areas targeted by a new federal program for economic investment to learn what it takes for these areas to succeed in the program.

Social Sciences

Invigorating student life in India

Through the Graduate School of Business SEED program, co-term Julia Daniel spent the summer interning at an engineering college in India where she developed programs designed to improve teaching and student engagement.

Where Stanford GSB Interned This Summer

Students headed around the world to work in every major industry.

Stanford education students show off new inventions to improve learning

At the 21st annual Learning, Design and Technology Expo, students introduced prototypes of innovative learning and teaching tools.

Awards

Two grad students named Hertz Global Health and Development Fellows

Alex Ferris and Sarah Hooper are spending the summer interning with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve health and development outcomes globally.

Science & Technology

Teaching biology in the bush

Stanford students are traveling through Africa to learn effective mentoring and field techniques, on an expedition designed to provide new perspectives on ethical ecotourism, the applications of novel technology and defining meaningful collaborations in developing countries.

Teaching & Students

Stanford PhD student documents indigenous language of Papua New Guinea

Fifth-year PhD student Kate Lindsey recently returned to the United States after a year of documenting an obscure language indigenous to the South Pacific nation.