Impactful public service projects and an increasingly diverse network of scholars are among the highlights of the first years of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, which supports Stanford graduate students and strengthens their leadership skills.
The honor recognizes mid-career scholars, artists, and scientists who have demonstrated a previous capacity for outstanding work and continue to show exceptional promise.
Quenton Bubb, Esther Elonga, and Tania Fabo have been named members of the 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which supports the graduate education of U.S. immigrants and children of immigrants.
The professor of biology was honored by the Society for the Study of Evolution for contributions to our understanding of human population genetics and cultural evolutionary theory.
The Neuroscience:Translate grant program funds researchers across the university whose projects include devices, medications and VR for the treatment of autism, depression, Parkinson’s disease and more.
Matthew O. Jackson, professor of economics, received the Frontiers of Knowledge Award for research that reveals the role of networks in economic and social life.
Chemistry Professor Carolyn Bertozzi is honored for creating a new biochemical field of study and contributing to the understanding of a network of cellular molecules important to health and disease.
Kevin Fan Hsu, a Stanford alumnus and lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, has won a 2022 Gates Cambridge Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England.
Carolyn Bertozzi, professor of chemistry and director of Stanford ChEM-H, has been awarded the Lifetime Mentor Award that recognizes significant contributions to mentorship and to increasing diversity in STEM fields.
