Mary-Peck Peters, a head teacher at Bing Nursery School, will receive a 2019 Amy J. Blue Award at a campus ceremony on April 30. The award honors staff members who are exceptionally dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work.
Heidi Marisol López, finance assistant and graduate fellowships coordinator at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, recently won an Amy J. Blue Award.
Laura Dominguez Chan, associate dean of career education and director of career communities at Stanford Career Education, recently won an Amy J. Blue Award, which honors staff who are exceptionally dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work.
The Stanford faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies, are scholars in the fields of education, performing arts, economics, law and mathematics.
Eva Borgwardt, whose academic and public service work has focused on Israeli-Palestinian relations, hopes to use the Truman Scholarship to pursue a joint degree program in law and global affairs.
Five scholars with Stanford affiliations have won Soros Fellowships, which provide financial support for graduate study at any U.S. university. Soros Fellows are either immigrants or the children of immigrants and are selected based on merit.
The awards honor the life and work of the late Amy J. Blue, associate vice president for administrative services and facilities, who was known as a woman of incisive intelligence, abundant energy and unrelenting honesty.
The 2019 cohort of Knight-Hennessy Scholars includes a senior majoring in chemistry; a coterminal student studying biology, economics and computer science; and three alumni from the classes of 2015, 2017 and 2018.
