Community Profiles

AI is contributing to a rising demand for electricity – a pressing sustainability challenge. Professor Will Chueh says it can also be part of the solution, by accelerating advances and deployment in energy technologies.

Celeste Chung, ’26, founded a nonprofit at 16 to create learning centers in Sabah, her home state in Malaysia. Now she’s paying her Stanford opportunities forward by developing a scholarship program for Sabahan students.

The Stanford researcher views plants as nature’s ultimate chemists. Her work has the potential to innovate everything from food allergies to cancer treatment.

During a seven-month residency, the Denning Visiting Artist mentored students, drew packed audiences, and fostered conversations about poetry, music, and the work of being an artist.

Bioengineer Emma Lundberg is leveraging AI to map the human proteome in space and time, while reframing the way scientists think about genetic disease.

A months-long cancer battle at Stanford Hospital inspired undergrad Josie Fabian to pursue research on CAR T-cell therapy.

Computer scientist Karen Liu is advancing embodied intelligence, a form of AI that lets robots and animated characters gather information and take actions to change the state of their world.

A successful career performing with Riverdance and on Broadway led Jason Oremus McLeish to explore the intersection of engineering and orthopedics at Stanford.

Childhood food allergies demand a constant state of vigilance. Pediatric allergist Tina Sindher describes how that daily stress drives her work around food allergy care.

Stanford chemical biologist Carolyn Bertozzi studies sugars on the surface of cells to better understand their involvement in diseases, including cancer.