Melinda French Gates, a philanthropist, businesswoman, and global advocate for women and girls, will deliver the 2024 Commencement address at Stanford University.French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and founder of Pivotal
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Newly elected ASSU Executives Sophia Danielpour ’24 and Kyle Haslett ’25 were among a slate of candidates that won on platforms of “fun” in this year’s ASSU elections, which drew the highest voter turnout since 2020.
Class sponsors student projects for community engagement
Screenshot of teaching team with Nate Braun, Jack Scala, Rishi Mediratta, Kiarash Shamardani and William Wang. (Photo courtesy of JACK SCALA)
on January 21, 2021
In PEDS 220: “COVID-19 Elective,” graduate and undergraduate students come together to take a look at the science behind COVID-19 as well as the social, economic and psychological impacts of the pandemic. Additionally, students are provided the opportunity to develop a mentored, quarter-long project on the subject.
The course was initially developed last spring by Stanford School of Medicine clinical assistant professor Rishi Mediratta when he sensed “a clear hunger from undergraduate and graduate students to learn more about the pandemic they are currently experiencing.”