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News & Research Highlights
2026 Early Career Award for Biological Physics
We’re excited to announce that the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Biological Physics has awarded the prestigious Early Career Award for Biological Physics to…
Karel Urbanek and the Marvin Chodorow
The Stanford Department of Applied Physics 2025-26 Karel Urbanek and the Marvin Chodorow Postdoctoral Fellowships is an annual program aimed at recruiting young scientists of…
Postdoc Fellowships: 2024 Bloch Fellowship in
Bloch Postdoctoral Fellowship in Quantum Science and EngineeringNOTE, this round has passed; this page is for informational purposes only. Dates will be adjusted when the next…
Prof. Ben Lev leads STEM bootcamp for veterans
A summer STEM academic bootcamp for veterans helps pave a path to higher education.
The Warrior-Scholar Project, launched in 2011, aims to remove veterans’ barriers to…
AP Professor Mark Schnitzer pioneers new imaging
Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant leads to first new clinical imaging platform in a quarter-century. A clinical imaging system recently designated by the FDA as a “breakthrough device”…
Ben Good named new Faculty Fellow in H&S
Professor Benjamin Good was selected as the Alden H. and Winifred Hubbard Brown Faculty Fellow in H&S. Congratulations!