SGFs in the news

• Annemarie Baltay (Geophysics), a 2005 Gabilan Fellow, coauthored a Science Express paper exploring the unusual earthquake that gave the Japan 3/11 tsunami extra power.

• Dr. Sebastian Osterfeld (Materials Science and Engineering), a 2001 Leonard J. Shustek Fellow, participated in the research of and coatuhored the Nature Nanotechnology paper on a new biosensor microchip that could significantly speed up the process of drug development. Read more here.

• Paul Kempen (Materials Science and Engineering), a 2008 Gerhard Casper Stanford Graduate Fellow, did much of the hands-on work on a study that could yield to human trials using nanomedicine for detection of colorectal and possibly other cancers.
• Sabina Alistar (Management Science and Engineering), a 2007 Gabilan Stanford Graduate Fellow, is lead author of a study published in the March issue of PLoS-Medicine offers a plan to combat growing HIV epidemic in Ukraine. Read more.
• Suchi Saria, 2004 Rambus Corportation Fellow, led the research to develop PhysiScore,a non-invasive way of quickly predicting the future health of premature infants. This innovation may better target specialized medical intervention and reduce health-care costs.
• Keith Bechtol (Physics), a 2010 Stanford Graduate Fellow and mararthoning astrophysicist won the 2010 San Francisco Marathon -- the very first marathon he's ever run.
• Dr. Jeff Cooper (Psychology), a 2004 Regina Casper Stanford Graduate Fellow, spent his time at Stanford studying a part of the brain called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Through MRI scans showing brains' responses actions of others, Cooper found that when we believe a person is doing something nice for someone else, we really do take it personally. Our brains register the observation of a good deed as a personal reward. Read more here.
• 2006 Office of Technology Licensing Fellow Feng Zhang (Statistics) and Viviana Gradinaru (Neurosciences), a 2005 Smith SGF and 2008 Colella Family SIGF, are coauthors of an article in Cell describing advances in optogenetic techniques. Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, associate professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, is senior author of the paper.
• 2006 Honorary Stanford Graduate Fellow (Buck Foundation Fellow) Rami Hindiyeh, Mechanical Engineering, talks about the autonomous, self-pilots car Shelley, and the anticipated climb up Pike's peak.
• 2007 William R. and Sara Hart Kimball SGF Rob Munro (Linguistics) has been honored for his work on behalf of the Haiti relief effort.
• Viviana Gradinaru (2005 Smith SGF and 2008 Colella Family SIGF), a Neurosciences student, and Bioengineering student Murtaza Morgri (2008 Regina Casper SGF) are first authors of ground-breaking research published in Nature. Both are in Karl Deisseroth's lab.
• Yuan Yang (Applied Physics), a 2009 ABB SGF, is on the team of Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering. Cui's work is reported in the paper "Highly Conductive Paper for Energy Storage Devices," published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using nanotechnology the team created a paper battery!

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