Stanford’s Patricia Burchat merges engineering and physics to create new major

If there is one thing Stanford University professor Patricia Burchat loves more than physics, it’s teaching physics.

In high school, the subject came naturally and she often found herself imagining how she would explain scientific or math concepts to her classmates. “I was always thinking, ‘I think they would understand it if it was explained this way,’” she said.

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