What I Did in Australia…
Current Student Advisors
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Tanya Widmer — Autumn, 2007-08 | |
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| MAJOR: Human Biology | ||
| ACADEMIC INTERESTS/RESEARCH: Human Physiology, International Health, Italian Everything | ||
| The Australia program is a hands-on, interactive experience; you are constantly moving from one breathtaking location to another, and the best part is that every day your “tour guide” is an expert in his field that can’t wait to tell you all that he or she knows.Read full profile » | ||
Past Student Advisors
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John McCallen — Autumn, 2007-08 | |
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| MAJOR: Biology | ||
| ACADEMIC INTERESTS/RESEARCH: Health, Fitness, Ecology | ||
| Perhaps one of my favorite things about the Australia program was the way in which academics were approached. For example, during our Coral Reef Ecosystems class, Dr. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and Dr. Mary Alice Coffroth, world experts on coral bleaching and disease provided our lectures. Immediately after, we would suit up in snorkel gear to see, touch and collect coral samples from Heron Island’s reefs. Read full profile » | ||
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Bowen Jiang — Autumn, 2006-07 | |
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| MAJOR: Biological Sciences (Molecular and Cell) | ADVISOR: Prof. Philip Hanawalt | |
| ACADEMIC INTERESTS/RESEARCH: Behavioral neuroscience, clean energy, emergency medicineAnthropology, and Photography | ||
| I expected the Australia program to be a series of lectures, in classrooms 7,000 miles away. I could not have been more wrong. The program was a true representation of the “hands-on” experience. Whether it was sand dunes, coral cays, or metropolises, we saw it all... Read full profile » | ||
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Brandon Silberstein — Autumn, 2006-07 | |
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| MAJOR: Human Biology | ||
| I was once told that the best thing you could do while at Stanford was to in fact, leave. I love Stanford campus, so I was curious to see how anything could possibly be better than it. I applied for the Shakespeare Seminar in Oxford and the Australia abroad program. I was accepted to both and thus began one of those incredible, unforgettable, Summer of ‘69esque, ‘those were the best days of my life.’Read full profile » | ||