Historian Mikael Wolfe argues that our sense of the past and present is more comprehensive when nature and technology are viewed as interdependent rather than in opposition.
Alison McQueen’s research shows that apocalyptic rhetoric can make wars, natural disasters and economic collapse easier to understand. Although it can rouse people to action, such rhetoric also carries great peril.
The Stanford neuroscientist’s research focused on the cells in the brain that aren’t nerve cells. Collectively called glia, these “other” cells play a central role in sculpting and maintaining the brain’s wiring diagram.
What unites the needs of Ebola workers, people with multiple sclerosis and athletes comes down to one thing – cold hands. A device that cools the hands is finding widespread use from the playing field to the clinic.
Before many head home for the holidays, members of the Stanford community enjoy the season’s traditions with music and fun. Among the holiday festivities this year was The Wise Women, a play performed by students, faculty and staff at Memorial Church. Other activities included Hanukkah ceremonies at White Plaza and Stanford Hospital, and a Yalda celebration hosted by Stanford’s Persian Student Association.
Morris “Buzz” Zelditch Jr., a professor emeritus of sociology, taught at Stanford for more than half a century and was chairman of the Department of Sociology twice.
Stanford Report’s most popular stories in 2017 reflected the eclectic interests of the university community, from climate change to caffeine to the new Redwood City Campus.
The Anderson Collection and the Cantor Arts Center are open during the winter break except on Christmas Day, with special holiday hours on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve only.
The University Privacy and Information Security offices are encouraging members of the university community to periodically purge unneeded computer files.
The final tax bill passed by Congress does not include earlier proposals affecting graduate assistants and employee tuition assistance programs. However, it includes an excise tax on certain university endowments, including Stanford’s.
Stanford Law Professor Deborah Sivas discusses environmental implications of the GOP’s tax bill, including a provision to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
A physicist and engineer with a reputation for finding elegant solutions to complex problems, Sidney Self is remembered for incisive research and generous mentoring.
The nation is no more politically divided than it was in the 1970s, despite how things might appear in the news. Instead, the political parties have sorted into narrow groups.
During Finals Week, the Engineering Library hosted dog and owner teams from Pet Partners, volunteers trained in animal therapy, to provide relaxation and stress relief for students and faculty.
A new approach for reducing gender inequality in the workplace has shown promise in a pilot project at several companies. It combines existing tools and adds an evaluation of places where biases could creep in to a company’s procedures.
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Didi Kuo, academic research and program manager at FSI’s Program on American Democracy in Comparative Perspective, and Ryan Singel, media and strategy fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, provide perspective.
Michael Zhu Chen is one of five individuals with Stanford affiliations who will begin graduate programs at the University of Oxford in England next fall as Rhodes Scholars.
Students in Allison Okamura’s freshman Introductory Seminar designed touch-based devices to help pedestrians navigate, enhance a classic game and create depth perception for the blind.
Applying modern film scanning technology and machine learning to a rare trove of historical airborne radar measurements could provide new insights about how Antarctica’s ice sheets will change in a warming world.
Political scientist Anna Grzymala-Busse finds that authoritarians face a choice in the face of change: try to cling to power, exit governing or reinvent themselves as democrats. It’s those who reinvent themselves as newly minted democrats who fare the worst in the long run.
Artist and lecturer Pamela Davis Kivelson created a participatory performance piece with violinist and scientist Lucy Liuxuan Zhang and Stanford postdoctoral scholar Xiaohan Zhang.
Since the earliest civilizations, people have recorded their thoughts and experiences through storytelling, art, philosophy and other forms of expression.
U.S. foreign policy should focus on strengthening, not weakening, its worldwide alliances, said Kori Schake, a Hoover Institution research fellow. That is especially true if the United States seeks to avoid conflict with China, the top challenger to the current international order.
A year after Konrad Reuland’s far-too-early passing, the former Stanford tight end continues to live on in the heartbeat of a fellow athlete, the memories of his family and friends, and in the indomitable spirit of a young girl.
The buildings are taking shape at Stanford's new campus, while a variety of other planning activities are progressing in anticipation of the campus opening in 2019.
By 1942, the Axis powers seemed invincible. But the course of the war soon changed in ways that offer lessons for the U.S. and its allies in today’s world.
Long-term effects of repeated fires on soils found to have significant impacts on carbon storage not previously considered in global greenhouse gas estimates.
