Stanford Undergrads Engage In Research

Anoth­er note on those amaz­ing stu­dents at Stan­ford: the under­grads are engag­ing in orig­i­nal, fund­ed research.

How wild is that?

One stu­dent fea­tured in the sto­ry is doing research on the dowry sys­tem in Ker­ala, India. “My cousins, who are of mar­riage­able age, are vic­tims of the sys­tem, and if my par­ents had not come to the States, there’s a good chance I would have been also,” she said. “I was a bit both­ered by always read­ing about Ker­ala as the mod­el state. I knew it had its good and its bad, like every­where else … but this dowry sys­tem, a very present bad, is one I’m inter­est­ed in learn­ing about more, under­stand­ing and con­tribut­ing to stop­ping it.”

Yet anoth­er rea­son we feel so pas­sion­ate­ly that Stan­ford is a strate­gic mis­sion field. I said it before, and I’ll say it again: today they learn, tomor­row they lead.