Scholar insights

Gevin Reynolds (2025 cohort) makes the case that the SAVE America Act would suppress youth turnout and undermine decades of hard-won voting access.

Research from Philip Onffroy (2023 cohort) shows how precisely designed carbon architectures could power next-generation batteries, reactors, and even nuclear fusion energy.

Sophia Pribus (2025 cohort) shares how choosing curiosity in a divided world helps bring us closer together.

Gun violence has become part of daily life. Dara Drake (2025 cohort) reflects on choosing love, courage, and community.

While the threat is real, safeguards to reduce AI risks to U.S. elections are already within reach, argues Aneesh Pappu (2025 cohort).

Although nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands ended 70 years ago, Kylie Jones (2024 cohort) recalls the harm and its ongoing consequences in an essay and short film.

Siwaar Abouhala (2025 cohort) considers how embracing imperfection, grounding in community, and redefining “why medicine” are guiding her early days at Stanford School of Medicine.

In his latest investigation, Eli Cahan (2019 cohort) reveals how psychiatric hospitals illegally turn people away in mental health crises with few consequences.

Alina Santander Vinokurova (2024 cohort) returns to her homeland, where history, landscapes, and myths first trained her to be curious, seek connections, and honor complexity.

A new paper from Kate Reinmuth (2022 cohort) shows commercialization doesn’t stifle academic discovery; in fact, licensing can fuel more university research.

Sydney Hunt (2023 cohort) asks: What happens when you genuinely engage with someone whose entire framework for understanding the world is dramatically different from your own?

An adoptee, Emerson Victoria Johnston (2023 cohort) explores how communities mold identity and why diverse ecosystems drive progress.

After her year as a Quad Fellow, Afi Tagnedji (2024 cohort) shares how science, technology, and diplomacy can bridge divides and drive solutions to shared global challenges.

Research from MD-PhD scholar Ank Agarwal (2024 cohort) shows that by rethinking when and how we consume caffeine, we can optimize both wakefulness and restfulness.

Personalized medicine holds the power to transform the parenting of newborns from a stressful guessing game to a supported, data-informed journey, writes Debbie Ho (2024 cohort).

With a goal of attending college in the U.S. and becoming a doctor, Maryanne Chege (2024 cohort) runs the race of her life, finishing with help from an unexpected ally.

Abundance erases the awareness of privilege, says Katherine Tang (2024 cohort) of her mission to bring electricity to Sub-Saharan Africa through the power of renewable energy.

Guided by community and culture, Marina Luccioni (2024 cohort) shares a “taste” of her journey finding a more equitable and reciprocal way to practice science.

Sometimes an unruly, exploratory, and boundless approach to science is just what we need, writes Yu Tin Lin (2024 cohort).

Research conducted by Ashwyn Sam (2020 cohort) uses plasma waves to improve the accuracy of detecting space debris, a growing threat to space infrastructure.