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Tina L. Seelig

 
Title:Executive Director & Lecturer
Affiliation(s):Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Location:Terman 411
Mail Code:4026
Phone:650.725.1627       
E-mail: tseelig@stanford.edu
URL: http://stvp.stanford.edu/about/tseelig.html
http://stvp.stanford.edu/

Research Statement

Tina Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering. STVP is dedicated to accelerating high-technology entrepreneurship education and creating scholarly research on technology-based firms. STVP provides students from all majors with the entrepreneurial skills needed to use innovations to solve major world problems.

Tina teaches courses on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the department of Management Science and Engineering, and within the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Tina was recently awarded the 2009 Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, recognizing her as a national leader in engineering educational. She also received the 2008 National Olympus Innovation Award, and the 2005 Stanford Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. In 2004, STVP was named the NASDAQ Entrepreneurship Center of the Year.

Tina earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in 1985 where she studied Neuroscience. She has worked as a management consultant for Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, as a multimedia producer at Compaq Computer Corporation, and was the founder a multimedia company called BookBrowser.

Tina has also written 15 popular science books and educational games. Her books include The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of twelve games called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest book, to be released by HarperCollins in Spring 2009, is titled What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World.

Degree Discipline Year School
PhD Neuroscience 1985 Stanford
Publication TitleAuthor(s)/Speaker(s)Open Document
Incredible Edible Science Tina Seelig
The Epicurean Laboratory Tina Seelig
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Academic Honors & Awards

  • 2009 Bernard M.Gordon Prize, National Academy of Engineering, for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education,
  • 2008 National Olympus Innovation Award,
  • 2005 Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching;
  • 2004 NASDAQ Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence Award;
  • 2003 Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education;
  • 2002 USASBE National Model Program Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education