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Army officer Charley Falletta (2024 cohort) appeared on NPR's All Things Considered to discuss the Department of Defense nominee's proposal to bar women from serving in combat.

Chosen as the Systems Lab rep at the U of Michigan CSE Graduate Honors Competition, Braden Crimmins (2023 cohort) won first place for his research on strengthening U.S. elections.

Inspired by her father and her Midland community, Hannah Thomas (2024 cohort) aspires to improve health care systems.

Sharon Lee (2024 cohort) shares her journey pursuing STEM and her plans to help expand access to STEM education in Malaysia.

Longsha Liu (2022 cohort) shares his experience as a teaching assistant for Bryant Lim, who helped mentor him as a budding medical entrepreneur.

Aya Mouallem (2020 cohort) co-conducted a study of a blind student’s experience in an introductory electrical engineering course to identify accessibility gaps and solutions.

Braden Crimmins (2023 cohort) presents a low-cost approach to reducing the security risks of voting machines by drawing on techniques from the field of robust optimization.

Research by Braden Crimmins (2023 cohort) indicates that a flaw in commonly-used voting systems could compromise voter privacy.

KH scholars Maya Durvasula (2020 cohort), Harith Khawaja (2022 cohort), and Annelisa Kingsbury-Lee (2023 cohort) were named Sallyanne Payton Fellows at Stanford Law School.

Promoting universal design for accessibility is just one tenant of the student-led Disabilities and Caregivers Club co-founded by Batu Demir (2023 cohort) at Stanford GSB.

Aadith Moorthy (2018 cohort) is honored as a member of the 2024 TIME100 Next list for Boomitra, his startup that addresses the climate crisis through carbon sequestration.

Joe Nail (2023 cohort) founded Project 1310, an initiative to raise money for veterans, by running a marathon in all 50 states, completing his journey in Washington, D.C.

Aditya Vishwanath (2018 cohort) will be a mentor at a new hub from the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, supporting students and recent alumni on their entrepreneurship journey.

Carson Smith (2022 cohort) shares her family's practice of peacemaking and how she incorporates it into her career, Stanford community, and personal life.

Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca (2024 cohort) shares how her journey of trying to find scholarships in the U.S. as an undocumented student led her to create the Dreamers Roadmap app.

A study co-conducted by Betty Cai (2021 cohort) found that by using common food dye, researchers were able to see through a living mouse’s skin to its internal organs.

Alma Cooper (2023 cohort) is challenging notions of what it means to be a scholar, a soldier and a pageant winner.

Ayo Dada (2019 cohort) explores how linking education to the idea of legacy affects girls' access to education in northern Nigeria.

Alma Cooper (2023 cohort) is a US Army military intelligence officer, a graduate student pursuing a master's degree in statistics (data science track), and the new Miss USA.

Kevan Shah (2023 cohort) explains why California should spend its $121 million in opioid settlement dollars on fentanyl awareness, tracking and response.