News

The Stanford Medical Youth Science Program has been featured in both local and national media. Read all about our staff, students' and programs' successes in the following articles:

			Victoria Garica, far left, learning about the human anatomy from Dr. Ahmed in morgue at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System hospital.

• Mendocino County Office of Education: Eleven Mendocino County Students & Six Administrators Receive Awards (including SMYSP alumna Victoria Garica) – March 4, 2008
   
• Santa Rosa Press Democrat: All Heart: Freshly arrived from war-torn Congo, Stivi Vangadio went from barely speaking English to Stanford Medical Youth Science Program – November 20, 2007
   
• Newsweek: I'm Counting Every Penny – An immigrant's dream: Nwankwo earned a full scholarship to Berkeley – August 20-27, 2007
   
• American Journal of Health Promotion: 2007 Robert F. Allen Symbol of H.O.P.E. Award Dr. Marilyn Winkleby – June, 2007
   
• MercuryNews.com: WILLOW GLEN HIGH: Grad's determined to make a difference – June 25, 2007
   
• Silicon Valley Community Newspapers — Willow Glen Resident: Future Looks Bright – June 22, 2007
   
• Stanford Report: Public health budget cuts could cripple progress – June 6, 2007
   
• Haas Center for Public Service: Walk the Talk Service Leadership Awards honorees: Nicolás Barceló ’07 (Human Biology) – May, 2007
   
• Academic Medicine : The Stanford Medical Youth Science Program: 18 years of a biomedical program for low-income high school students – February, 2007
   
• Journal of the California Dental Hygenists' Association: Cathy Draper Receives President's Award – Fall, 2006
   
• Stanford Report: Death rates for poor higher in rich neighborhoods – August 9, 2006
   
• Stanford Report: SMYSP volunteers paid with smiles – August 9, 2006
   
• UC Berkeley School of Public Health: Public Health Magazine: Returning to the Community: Marilyn Winkleby, Ph.D. '86, M.P.H. '83 – Spring/Summer, 2006
   
• Stanford Report: Interdisciplinary conference held on health, environment – May 17, 2006
   
• The Stanford Daily: Stanford Summer Program Offers Health and Science Mentoring to Disadvantaged Students – May, 2006
   
• NBC11.com: Immigration Reform Could Impact Healthcare System – April 26, 2006
   
• SUMC: Office of Communications & Public Affairs: Farmworkers' Paradox: Stanford Study Shows Field Laborers Not Eating What They Grow – February 15, 2006
   
• Central Valley Business Times: They grow it, but they don't eat it – February 16, 2006
   
• Stanford Report: Medical School Sets Up Office of Community Health – October 12, 2005
   
• Stanford Report: Program Opens Doors to the World of Medical Science – August 10, 2005
   
• Stanford Report: Volunteers Honored at Community Partnership Awards Luncheon (video archive includes a clip of Dr. Winkleby's acceptance speech) – May 3, 2005
   
• Stanford Report: Historian, Epidemiologist Selected for Volunteer-Service Award – April 27, 2005
   
• CNN.com: A Head Start on Science, Medical Careers – August 31, 2004
   
• Stanford Magazine: A Grassroots Remedy – July/August, 2004
   
• Stanford Report: New Book Chronicles Popular Program – January 14, 2004
   
• Stanford Report: Multi-year Grant Boosts Popular Program’s Outreach to At-Risk Minority Youth – October 22, 2003
   
• Stanford Report: Lunch with the President – July 23, 2003
   
• Stanford Medicine Magazine: Making Public Service a Matter of Course (profile of SMYSP graduate Daniel Sanchez) – Summer, 2003
   
• NIH Record: Gene-busting over Gang-banging: NIAID's Cabral Receives Soros Fellowship – May, 2003
   
• Silicon Valley/San Jose BusinessJournal: Summer Program Introduces Teens to the World of Medicine – August 16, 2002
   
• The Calfifornia Wellness Foundation Portfolio: High School Science Program Fosters Future Medical Professionals – Summer, 2001
   
• Stanford [online] Report: Youth Project Reaches Out Through High School Workshops, Web Site – March 4, 1998
   
• The Stanford Daily: Making Cadavers Come Alive: Summer Program Cultivates Interest in Medicine Among Minority Students – January 20, 1998
   
• San Jose Mercury News: Healthy Dose of Motivation Spurs Teens – July 25, 1997
   
• Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): 'Med Prep' College Course Helps High School Students Work Toward Dreams – May 18, 1994
   
• Stanford Medicine: Past Imperfect: Future Docs – Spring, 1993
   
• Stanford Report: Youth Project Reaches Out Through High School Workshops, Web Site – March 4, 1988