In early 2014, Prof. Maryam Mirzakhani achieved a unique and highly meritorious distinction. What subject does she teach at Stanford University?
"statistics at Stanford.) During the camp, there are frequent guest lectures given by internationally renowned mathematicians. These talks are in the areas of current mathematical research. Ravi Vakil, a current Stanford mathematics professor and a 4-time Putnam Fellow, talked to the students in 2007. Also in 2007, Tyson Mao, one of the best cube solvers in the world, taught SUMaC students how to solve the Rubik's Cube. Other speakers in 2007 included Drs. Kay Kirkpatrick (MIT), Ted Shifrin (University of Georgia), and Pete Storm (Stanford). In 2014, John Edmark, Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford, spoke about his"
"Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman and first Iranian to receive the Fields Medal in 2014. The Fields Medal, is one of the most prestigious prize in mathematics, and has been awarded 56 times in total. Fewer female students participate in prestigious STEM-related competitions such as the International Mathematical Olympiad. In 2017, only 10% of the IMO participants were female and there was one female on the South Korean winning team of six. Abbiss states that ""the ubiquity of computers in everyday life has seen the breaking down of gender distinctions in preferences for and the use of different applications,"
"of Archimedes' tomb, with the carving illustrating his theorem On the Sphere and Cylinder, behind a branch. (This is the mathematical result of which Archimedes was reportedly most proud: Given a sphere and a circumscribed cylinder of the same height and diameter, the ratio between their volumes is equal to ⅔.) The rim bears the name of the prizewinner. In terms of the most prestigious awards in STEM fields, only a small proportion have been awarded to women. The Fields Medal has been obtained only one time by a woman, Maryam Mirzakhani, in 2014, out of a total of (currently)"
"of Humanities and Science, the Stanford School of Medicine also runs the Biosciences Ph.D. Program which was ranked 1st in 2014 among graduate programs in the biological sciences by the ""US News and World Report."" In specialties, according to ""U.S. News"" for 2014, Stanford is #1 in genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics; #1 in biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology; #1 in neuroscience and neurobiology; #2 in cell biology, #2 in microbiology; #4 in immunology and infectious disease and #4 in molecular biology. The School of Medicine has 1,948 full-time faculty. There have been eight Nobel Prize winners over the past six"
"was the first recipient of the award, for her work on symplectic geometry. A joint award was made for the only time in 2001, when Karen E. Smith and Sijue Wu shared the award. The 2013 prize winner was Maryam Mirzakhani, who, in 2014, was the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal. This is considered to be the highest honor a mathematician can receive. She won both awards for her work on ""the geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces"". The most recent winner is Laura DeMarco, who was awarded the prize in 2017 for her ""fundamental"
"with specialization tracks. Some of his lectures are made available on YouTube and iTunesU. Sahami also co-chairs the ACM Education Board and Education Council. Sahami was selected by the 2013 graduating senior class to give the annual Class Day Lecture at Stanford University's Commencement Weekend ceremonies. In 2014, Sahami received the ACM Presidential Award for ""outstanding leadership of, and commitment to, the three-year ACM/IEEE-CS effort to produce CS2013, a comprehensive revision of the curricular guidelines for undergraduate programs in computer science"". Mehran Sahami Mehran Sahami is a professor and the Associate Chair for Education in the Computer Science department at"
"in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in 2003 she started her teaching career at Mills College in Oakland, California, as an assistant professor, as well as the director and co-founder of their Intermedia Arts program. She moved to Stanford University, where she is an associate professor in the department of Art and Art History, teaching courses in experimental media arts. As an artist, she works at the intersection of art and science, especially biology, neuroscience, and the history of technology. She explores, often humorously, how muddled our understanding of life and human relationships can become when we rely too much on science"
"honor of her mother, at Harvard Medical School. She was also Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has been featured as a national leader in medicine by the National Library of Medicine. She was one of the first researchers in her field to identify the need for consideration of sex differences in medical treatment, and has been a significant voice in raising awareness of the importance of sex differences in understanding women's health. Her 2013 TED talk, ""His and Her Healthcare,"" was named"
"in 1999. The most recent project, A TIME for Physics First, focuses on professional development and leadership training for science teachers so they can implement a yearlong course in physics at the 9th grade level. As part of this project, she and a colleague, Dorina Kosztin led the development of a digital curriculum for conceptual physics. Meera Chandrasekhar Meera Chandrasekhar (ಡಾ. ಮೀರಾ ಚಂದ್ರಶೇಖರ್), is a Curators’ Teaching of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri, United States. She is the recipient of the 2014 Baylor University's Robert Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching Foster Cherry Award for Teaching."
"to direct Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research, a post she held from 2004-2010. Her job was to promote and support research on women and gender across Stanford University—from engineering, to philosophy, to medicine and business. In 2010 and 2014, she presented the keynote address and wrote the conceptual background paper for the United Nations' Expert Group Meeting on Gender, Science, and Technology. The UN Resolutions of March 2011 call for “gender-based analysis ... in science and technology” and for the integrations of a “gender perspective in science and technology curricula.” In 2013 she presented the Gendered Innovations project"
"Maryam Jafarkhani Kermani Maryam Jafarkhani Kermani () is an associate professor & Iranian woman scientist whose main research area has been focused on tissue culture and breeding new plant material using modern biotechnological methods. She graduated from the University of East London, UK, and spent the postdoc course at King's College, London University, UK. She has carried out many research projects mainly on the plants in the Rosaceous family. Kermani has supervised many MSc and PhD students who have successfully graduated. She has served as ""Head of Technology Transfer Administration of Agriculture and Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran"" (ABRII) for"
"Meera Chandrasekhar Meera Chandrasekhar (ಡಾ. ಮೀರಾ ಚಂದ್ರಶೇಖರ್), is a Curators’ Teaching of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri, United States. She is the recipient of the 2014 Baylor University's Robert Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching Foster Cherry Award for Teaching. optical spectroscopy of semiconductors and superconductors under pressure. Meera has developed hands-on physics programs for students in grades 5-12, and summer institutes for K-12 teachers. Chandrasekhar was born in Andhra Pradesh, India. Her father Chandrapal (ಚಂದ್ರಪಾಲ್) was an army officer, and mother Kusuma (ಕುಸುಮಾ) was a home-maker. During her childhood she lived in several towns and"
"at the Stanford, Oxford, and Yale university presses. Murray has been teaching on international women's health and human rights at Stanford University since 2001. Since 2010 she has also taught a course on ""love as a force for social justice."" She is a board member and/or advisor to several organizations, including CIVICUS, Grass Roots Alliance for Community Education (GRACE), and Initiative for Equality (IfE). In 2005, she was one of a thousand women jointly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Murray is the author of two books: ""Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change"" and ""From Outrage to Courage:"
"a German-language high school in Sofia. She graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 2003, and completed her Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. Her dissertation, ""Efficient Algorithms for Path Problems in Weighted Graphs"", was supervised by Guy Blelloch. After postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study and University of California, Berkeley, Williams became an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University in 2013. She moved to MIT as an associate professor in 2017. Williams was an NSF Computing Innovation Fellow for 2009–2011, and won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2017. She is an invited speaker"
"Catherine Margaret Shachaf Catherine Margaret Shachaf is an Indian cell biologist. She previously held an instructor position at Stanford University School of Medicine and has made ground-breaking discoveries in cancer research. Shachaf has spoken at scientific conferences and has published more than 17 journal articles. Her leading work was published in Nature (2004), ""MYC Inactivation Uncovers Pluripotent Differentiation and Tumor Dormancy in Hepatocellular Cancer."" Shachaf is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Green Nanotechnology. Post doctorate fellow: Stanford University, Medical Oncology Ph.D: Israel Institute of Technology, Molecular Medicine M.Sc: Israel Institute of Technology, Genetics B.Sc.: University of"
"Patricia Burchat Patricia Burchat (born 1958) is the Gabilan Professor of Physics at Stanford University who researches experimental particle physics and cosmology. She is interested in mapping dark matter in the universe, and understanding the nature of dark energy. She was named a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001, and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2005. In 2013 she became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Born in 1958, Burchat was reared in Barry's Bay, Ontario, Canada, and attended Madawaska Valley District High School. She earned a B.S. in applied science and engineering at"
"partner in the law firm of Yigal Arnon & Co. (Israel). Since 2013, Matias is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, specializing in globalization, national security, international disputes, global governance and international law, and is a member of its national security task force. Since 1992 Matias has been teaching as an adjunct professor academic courses on Globalization, International Law, International Dispute Settlement Mechanisms, the Middle East Conflict, and International Negotiations, at different academic institutions including Georgetown University Law Center the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and Stanford University. Since 2015 she is heading the Diplomacy and Conflict"
"Jennifer Eberhardt Jennifer Lynn Eberhardt (born 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a social psychologist and associate professor at Stanford University and a 2014 MacArthur fellow. She studies the mechanisms, effects of racial biases in criminal justice. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016. Eberhardt received her B.A. from the University of Cincinnati in 1987, an A.M. in 1990 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1993. Dr. Eberhardt is an associate professor of social psychology at Stanford University. She studies and teaches about the ways people judge and profile others based on race and inequality in"
"and studied a Ph.D. in high-energy physics at Stanford University. In 2010, she joined the Princeton University Center for Theoretical Science as an associate research scholar, and became an assistant professor in 2013. Her best-known research has been on the phenomenology of collider physics. She has encouraged the use of simplified search strategy models in the observation of new particles from collider data, an approach that was consequently adopted by groups using the Large Hadron Collider. She has also described theoretical models concerning dark matter, and in 2014 she co-authored a paper predicting the times of year when dark matter"
"Stanford University since 1994, teaching both undergraduates and fellows in the Stegner Fellowship program. In 2007 she was awarded Stanford's Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, and in 2008 she received the Northern California Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa's Excellence in Teaching Award, recognizing ""the extraordinary gifts, diligence, and amplitude of spirit that mark the best in teaching."" In 2009 she was honored with Stanford's Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 2014, Tallent was the lead drafter of a letter—signed by 369 of her colleagues at Stanford—requesting that the University divest from fossil fuels. She lives in Mendocino, California with her"
"Professor of Film and Performance Studies in the Asian American, Comparative Literature, Feminist, and Film and Media Studies Departments at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is well known for her work on race, sexuality and representations. Her sole-authored books include ""Straitjacket Sexualities: unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies"". The book studies scenes of cinematic intimacy in the forging of ethical manhoods on and off screen for Asian American men. Her first book ""The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene"" won the Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies."
"joined Stanford University’s Continuing Studies faculty to teach the neuroscience of innovation through on-campus and online courses. She currently teaches an online course, ""Unleashing Creative Innovation and Building Great Products"" for Stanford, combining principles of ""cognitive neuroscience, design frameworks and evolutionary biology,"" Her work and course at Stanford were featured in the article, ""Former Google and Apple exec now challenges Stanford students to design products that make people happy"" via CNBC. She has published multiple articles on brain-aware leadership, well-being, gender, and interpersonal dynamics. Her articles have been globally syndicated, receiving up to 8 million views and guiding readers everywhere"
"men and women soldiers differently. She is Associate Chief of Staff of Polytrauma at the Palo Alto VA Hospital. Harris is on the Program Committee of the Western Neurological Society. She is a mentor with the National Mentoring Network. In 2017 she published ""Handbook of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Spinal Medicine for Nurses and Advanced Practice Health Professionals"". In 2018 she was the first African American woman to be appointed Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University. She spoke at the PINK Concussions conference in 2016. She is a board member of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and spoke at"
"the top-funded NIH multi-grant recipients; she was the only woman in the top ten. Dr. Rotheram has overseen dozens of groundbreaking national and international efforts related to all aspects of HIV and AIDS. She has guided researchers’ efforts to identify and address health disparities across different communities by using experts from a variety of fields. She notes 45 trainees whose research is making a difference in people’s lives, including 22 trainees who are now successful academic faculty members. Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus (born December 7, 1949) is a licensed clinical psychologist and professor with the University of California,"
"District, India; the politics of language and social fracturing in the context of development and neo-liberal globalization; and creative praxis that uses collaboration, co-authorship, and translation to blur the borders between academic, activist, and artistic labor. She has held residential fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford in 2005-2006, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study (JNIAS) at New Delhi in 2011-2012, and at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape in 2013. She was named Honorary Professor at the Unit for Humanities at the Rhodes University"
"Mehran Sahami Mehran Sahami is a professor and the Associate Chair for Education in the Computer Science department at Stanford University. He is also the Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford. Sahami earned his BS and PhD from Stanford University under the supervision of Daphne Koller. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Google, Inc. as well as a Senior Engineering Manager at Epiphany, Inc.. Sahami teaches the introductory computer science sequence at Stanford. He led Stanford's computer science curriculum redesign from a large core to a smaller core"
"Stacey Bent Stacey Bent is a professor of Chemical Engineering and a senior associate dean in the Stanford School of Engineering. She is the Jagdeep and Roshni Singh Professor of Engineering. She is also the director of the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy. She is best known for contributions to semiconductor processing, materials chemistry, and surface science. Her work has been applied toward applications in semiconductors, solar cells, and catalysts. Bent graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1987 with a B.S., summa cum laude, in chemical engineering. She earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford in 1992, advised by Richard Zare."
"from Frontiers in Reproduction in 2013. She received the Distinguished Alumnae Award in 2008 and Alumni Association Merit Award in 2012 from Northwestern University. She was invited as commencement speaker and has an honorary degree (D.Sc.) from Bates College, Lewiston, Maine in 2010. She delivered the commencement remarks and received an honorary doctorate (D.Sc.) from the University of Birmingham, Birminghman, UK, in 2016. Her work on behalf of women in science has been recognized by The Distinguished Woman in Medicine and Science Award (2009), the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Vision and Impact Award (2012), the American"
"last ounce of life that they can out of objects, and my students used to bring me things to fix, and I always enjoyed being able to do that."" She is a senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT specializing in engineering design and appropriate technology for developing countries. She founded the D-Lab program at MIT which introduces students to technological, social, and economic problems of the Third World. She also co-founded Innovations in International Health to facilitate collaboration among researchers around the world to develop medical technologies for resource-poor settings. She teaches the courses SP.721/11.025: D-Lab:"
"Council staff. Shortly after graduating from Harvard, Zegart moved to Hong Kong, where she continued studying East Asia for a year on a Fulbright Scholarship. Following this, she began work as an associate with McKinsey & Company, where she advised ""Fortune"" 100 companies on strategy and organizational effectiveness. Zegart then attended graduate school. After completing her Ph.D., she served as professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and as a fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations. In 2011, Zegart moved to Stanford University. Zegart is a leading national expert on the United States"
"Jennifer Widom Jennifer Widom is the Frederick Emmons Terman Dean of the Stanford School of Engineering and the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She was the chair of the Computer Science Department from 2009 to 2014, and served as a senior associate dean from 2014 to 2016. In February 2017 she was named Dean of the School of Engineering. ACM conferred her with ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award to honor prominent women Computer Scientists for introduction of the fundamental concepts and architectures of active database systems in 2015. This award includes honorarium of $10,000"
"was entitled ""Introduction to databases"" and had more than 100,000 enrolled students, launching at the same time as two other MOOCs by Stanford University School of Engineering faculty.. In 2018, she won Erna Hamburger prize from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne -Women in Science and Humanities Foundation. Jennifer Widom Jennifer Widom is the Frederick Emmons Terman Dean of the Stanford School of Engineering and the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She was the chair of the Computer Science Department from 2009 to 2014, and served as a senior associate dean"
"of Secondary Education). Hundreds of her students are studying at top global universities, including Oxford University, Duke University, the University of London, the University of British Columbia, New York University, Stanford University, Princeton University, Yale University, Cornell University, Brown University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Mushtaq received the Yale Educator Award in 2009 and the Best Councillor Award from MIT in 2010. She is a member of the National Society of High School Scholars and the Overseas Career Counsellor Association. She is an honorary member of the Cambridge Advisory Council, the top forum for educators in Pakistan. She"