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UAR Undergraduate Advisory Board
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UAR Undergraduate Advisory Board Members
Aman Kumar, Founder and Chair
Junior
Major: Symbolic Systems, minor in Mathematics
Also considered: Computer Science, Linguistics
Board member since June 2006
Freshman Dorm: Freshman-Sophomore College
Special UAB Responsibilities: Overall execution; technology
Aman grew up shuttling between Silicon Valley and New Delhi, India. He came to Stanford in 2005, surprised to find himself passionate about cultivating the exceptional mentoring and research programs at the University. Symbolic Systems was a way to stay interested and focused in both fuzzy and techie areas.
At Stanford, he was president of the Freshman Sophomore College, founding advisor for Students with Disabilities group and local chair of the Presidential Scholars Alumni Association. He also serves on the Stanford Committee for Undergraduate Standards and Policy, the H&S Dean’s Advisory Committee on Curriculum, and the ITSS Advisory Group. Interests include the Macintosh, taiko, Star Trek and tennis.
Alex Song, Initiative Lead: Peer Mentoring and Advisor Matchup
Junior
Major: Economics and Biomedical Engineering
Also considered: Physics
Board member since November 2006
Freshman Dorm: Burbank (Stern Hall)
Special UAB responsibilities: Peer Mentoring
I'm currently a sophomore living in Toyon. I was born in China and moved to St. Louis, Missouri while in elementary school. Coming into freshman year I thought I'd be a physics major but now I'm looking more into Economics and Biomechanical Engineering.
With my background, I have a lot of exposure to the academia / research / pure science side of things. In addition, I have a lot of experience dealing with the preprofessional side as well.
Andrea Fuller, Founding Vice-Chair
Junior
Major: English and History
Also considered: Psychology and American Studies
Board member since August 2006
Freshman Dorm: Roble
Special UAB responsibilities: Humanities, research, first generation college students, IHUM board liaison
Andrea Fuller is sophomore from Asheville, North Carolina. Andrea is a senior staff writer and desk editor at The Stanford Daily and she hopes to pursue journalism. The Daily is her life.
Last year, she worked in the Mind, Culture, and Society Lab and did Summer Research College through the lab. This summer, she will do work on representations of social class in fiction and memoir through a Chappell Lougee grant. In her spare time, she likes to hang out at random places on campus that you probably never knew existed. (Bamboo building, anyone?)
Jessa Lee, Initiative Lead: Course Selection and Tracking
Junior
Major: Physics
Also considered: Computer Science
Board member since September 2006
Freshman Dorm: Otero (Wilbur Hall)
Special UAB responsibilities: Women in science and engineering
Jessa Lee is a sophomore majoring in physics with lots of engineering and math classes along the way. She is a member of the Stanford Solar Car Project, an officer for the Stanford Society of Women Engineers and a mentor for a local FIRST robotic team. This Fall, she will travel to Australia to race the Stanford Solar Car across the continent.
Paz Hilfinger-Pardo
On leave Spring 2007
Senior
Major: Computer Science and Drama
Also considered: Symbolic Systems, Psychology
Board member since January 2007
Freshman Dorm: Arroyo (Wilbur Hall)
Special UAB responsibilities: Humanities, women in science and engineering
Paz Hilfinger-Pardo is a junior majoring in Drama with a minor in Computer Science. She is an officer in the women in computer science student group (WICS) and is currently working on a play about women in engineering. Her interests include getting more women into science and engineering and keeping them there.
Zach Nevin
Junior
Major: Biological Sciences, minoring in History
Also considered: History of Science, English Literature
Board Member since November 2006
Freshman Dorm: Freshman-Sophomore College
Special responsibilities: Premedical students, research
I am a Sophomore interested in genomics, medieval history, and literature. I also enjoy camping, fencing, and chess. In addition to the UAR Board, I am involved with the Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal (SURJ), Stanford Scientific Magazine (SSM), and am interning in a gene therapy lab at Stanford Hospital.
Peter Tu, Initiative Colead: Freshman and New Student Orientation
Sophomore
Major: Undeclared
Also considered: Mathematics and Computer Science
Board Member since March 2007
Freshman Dorm: West Lagunita
Special UAB responsibilities: Freshmen, technology
Peter Tu is a freshman hailing from Austin, TX, interested in range of topics ranging from politics to number theory to March Madness. In high
school, Peter's proudest moment was initiating and hosting a statewide conference. He hopes his role on the board is offering insight from the perspective of an unabashed freshman. He plans to use his own confusion as a springboard for improvement ideas regarding rising freshman. Peter really has no idea how he dawdles away his free time.
Anna Khan, Initiative Colead: Freshman and New Student Orientation
Sophomore
Major: Political Science and Economics, minor in Comparative Literature
Also considered: Management Science and Engineering, English
Board Member since March 2007
Freshman Dorm: Alondra
Special UAB responsibilities: International students, freshmen
Anna H.R. Khan, a freshman from Lahore, Pakistan, is interested in a spectrum of subjects ranging from Economics to Comparative Literature. A scholar and
valedictorian in class, Anna is a poet at heart, having published two volumes of poetry by the time she was seventeen.
She traveled to several countries around the world and considers herself an international citizen with new perspective and an unbiased outlook on student affairs and experience abroad. She has an intense ambition to help those around her and will offer infinite passion to the undergraduate student advisory board.
Kimber Lockhart, Special Advisor, on indefinite leave
Junior
Major:Computer Science
Board Member since April 2007
Special UAB responsibilities: Women in science and engineering
Shannon Bergstedt, Board Secretary
Senior
Major: Human Biology and Spanish
Also considered: International Relations, Sociology, Economics
Board Member since February 2007
Special UAB responsibilities: Athletes
Shannon Bergstedt is currently a junior at Stanford pursuing a major in Human Biology and a minor in Spanish. A member of the Stanford cross
country and track teams, Shannon joins the UAR board as the voice of student-athletes.
Shannon is actively involved in the Stanford Leadership program, tutors Spanish-speaking University workers and serves as vice-chair of Cardinal Council, the Stanford student-athlete advisory committee.