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Meet Noel Vest
Originally published March 2020 in the Stanford Magazine. By Melinda Sacks Photography by Toni Bird When Noel Vest walked out of Lovelock Correctional Center in 2009, he had no money, no job and 14 felonies on his record, including identity theft and methamphetamine use. Vest headed home to Washington state, where his first move was to... More
From prison to Stanford postdoc – a journey in recovery
By Holly MacCormick Researcher joins Stanford Medicine as a postdoctoral scholar in the Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab to help others overcome addiction and incarceration. Noel Vest's career in science started not long after he walked out of prison on June 28, 2009. 2009 and 2010 were pivotal time for Vest, as a Stanford News story explains, He'd... More
Stanford’s resilient researcher
by Alex Kekauoha Noel Vest, PhD, hasn’t let his past experiences with addiction and incarceration keep him from a science career. He recently joined Stanford Medicine as a postdoctoral scholar in the Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab, focusing on research and public policy. One day in January of 2002, Noel Vest’s mother... More
From prison to WSU to Stanford
By Communications staff, Washington State University By Will Ferguson, WSU News Noel Vest’s goal was to go to community college to earn a degree as a chemical dependency counselor when he walked out the doors of a Nevada prison on June 28, 2009. Other than hard labor, it was the only career he thought... More