Jessica Diaz is a graduate student in the Neurosciences program at Stanford. She studies the development of a specific type of neuron (a neuron is a brain cell) that projects to the spinal cord, and how understanding this might help inform regenerative therapies for conditions like spinal cord injury. Jessica is also a veterinarian. Here is her story about how she applies what she learned from veterinary medicine to her career in basic research. For as long as I can rememb

The Stanford Science Penpals program completes another successful year of letter writing! Special thanks to all of the Stanford Graduate volunteers who took time away from their busy schedules to write multiple letters to excited high-school students from all over the US (graph below). This year the program corresponded with 7 different highschools for a total of around 250 penpals, more than any year prior! Topics of penpal exchanges ranged from general conversations of phil