Stanford University
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Kari Hanson
Lecturer
BioKari is a former technology executive with a passion for entrepreneurship, innovation, business strategy and making the world a better place. Having worked as a coach, investor, advisor, board member and CFO, she enjoys empowering students and entrepreneurs to thrive in life, the classroom and the marketplace.
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Marta Hanson
Summer CSP Instructor
BioAs Assistant Dean for Students and Associate Director of the Women's Community Center, I support the awesome WCC student staff as they develop and implement programming, serve as a resource for WVSOs (Women's Voluntary Student Organizations), and work with partners across campus to advance our common goals.
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Ronald Hanson
Clarence J. and Patricia R. Woodard Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsProfessor Hanson has been an international leader in the development of laser-based diagnostic methods for combustion and propulsion, and in the development of modern shock tube methods for accurate determination of chemical reaction rate parameters needed for modeling combustion and propulsion systems. He and his students have made several pioneering contributions that have impacted the pace of propulsion research and development worldwide.
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Terri Hanson Mead
Summer CSP Instructor
BioTerri Hanson Mead, is the multi-award winning author of Piloting Your Life, the Managing Partner of Solutions2Projects, LLC, travel creator with a modern midlife brand through Zeke and Terri Adventures, and an advocate for women through all of her platforms, especially midlife women. As an IT Consultant with her company Solutions2Projects, she provided IT strategy and compliance services in the life sciences industry along with expert witness consulting services. As an angel investor for eight years, Terri invested in startups that have products or services that expand the power and influence of women. Based in Redwood City, Terri is the mother to two college graduates (Chapman and UVM) with one currently attending SF State pursuing a master's in philosophy. In her spare time, Terri loves to travel, play tennis, write, and fly helicopters around the San Francisco Bay Area, especially under the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Eric Hanushek
Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor, by courtesy, of Education
BioEric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and one of the world’s leading scholars in the economics of education. His influential research has shaped education policy globally, with widely cited studies on teacher effectiveness, school accountability, class size, and the economic returns to educational quality. In 2021, he received the Yidan Prize for Education Research, the field’s most prestigious international award. With the prize money he founded the Africa Fellows in Education Program, a capacity-building program focused on improving education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has authored or edited 26 books and more than 300 articles, and he serves as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the area coordinator for Economics of Education of the CESifo Research Network. He is a fellow of both the Society of Labor Economists and the American Educational Research Association. He previously held academic appointments at the University of Rochester, Yale University, and the U.S. Air Force Academy. His public service includes roles as a commissioner on the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity and Excellence Commission, chair of the National Board for Education Sciences (2008–2010), Deputy Director of the Congressional Budget Office (1983–1985), and member of the National Assessment Governing Board (2019–2023). A member of the National Academy of Education and the International Academy of Education, he earned his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after graduating as a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. https://hanushek.stanford.edu/
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Kentaro Hara
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
BioKen Hara is an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. He received a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and a Graduate Certificate in Plasma Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, and B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo. He was a Visiting Research Physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow. Professor Hara’s research interests include electric propulsion, low temperature partially ionized plasmas, plasma physics (plasma-wall interactions, plasma-wave interactions, kinetic and fluid instabilities), data assimilation, rarefied gas flows, and computational fluid and plasma dynamics. He is a recipient of the Air Force Young Investigator Program Award, the Department of Energy Early Career Award, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award.
