The latest news from our team, partners, and supporters.
This past week, Stanford University announced TeachAids as one of three recipients of the 2019 Community Partnership Award, alongside Children’s Health Council and Future Advancers of Science and Technology. For the fifteenth year, this award recognizes organizations that have collaborated with Stanford University to create a positive impact in the community Collaborative partnership and commitment…
Shelley Goldman is a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education who has taught and served the Stanford community since 2001. This past spring, Goldman took on a new role as the Associate Dean of Students & Faculty Affairs, and she is now kicking off her first full year in this new role. Goldman’s…
On the field, Stanford and USC have a great rivalry. While USC took most of the games in the second half of the 20th century, since 2000 Stanford has made a wild comeback and leads USC 11 wins to 10. Both teams fought in the 2017 Pac-12 Championship game in Santa Clara, where USC took…
Today, TeachAids is excited to announce a partnership with USA Football, the sport’s national governing body and a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee. The organizations will work together to advance smarter play across America’s favorite sport through TeachAids’ CrashCourse curriculum. USA Football will make CrashCourse available on usafootball.com at no cost for America’s football…
TeachAids would like to warmly congratulate Dr. Tina Seelig for her successful Today Show appearance about making your own luck. In her interview, Dr. Seelig discusses tips to help people push themselves out of their comfort zone and seize opportunities. As a PhD in neuroscience, company founder, author, and TeachAids advisor, Dr. Seelig has definitely…
We are so pleased to welcome a special cohort of new TeachAids fellows into our office this summer! Our students bring a diverse set of skills and interests, coming together to create a driven and impactful team, passionate about TeachAids’ mission. The team will work on various projects from conducting research through immersing themselves…
Photo Credit: Stanford University TeachAids is happy to announce the addition of Donnovan Yisrael, mental health and wellbeing educator at Stanford’s Vaden Health Center, to the CrashCourse advising team. Yisrael attended Stanford University, earning both a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Sociology. He is passionate about working to answer the question of “why…
State of the epidemic The 2017 UNAIDS data report reported that a worldwide scale-up of antiretroviral therapy led to a steep 48% decline in AIDS-related deaths, plummeting to 1.0 million in 2016 from nearly 2 million in 2005. The number of children (aged 0–14 years) dying of AIDS-related illnesses has nearly halved in since 2010….
Four Stanford undergraduates have received prestigious scholarships to work full-time at TeachAids this summer. Each year, Stanford University expands its educational opportunities beyond the classroom by financing innovative research and immersive internship experiences for a handful of outstanding students. While those awarded represent diverse interests and skill sets, each individual arrives at TeachAids with a…
After her freshman year at Stanford, Riasoya Jodah returned to her home in Guyana with a desire to make a difference. She spent the summer working at Georgetown Public Hospital as a recipient of the Halper International Fellowship from Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service. As an assistant in the pediatric surgery department, Ria performed…
“If I had an hour to solve a problem, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.” – Albert Einstein As the major case study in Dr. Piya Sorcar’s Stanford University course entitled…
Stanford student Jill Huckels was baffled to see a child refusing to take his daily HIV medication on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia. The young boy had contracted HIV perinatally but been kept unaware of his HIV status by his parents to prevent the bullying and discrimination that typically follow a diagnosis of HIV. Consequently,…
