In the last several months, Stanford students were personally affected by hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires. Chris Griffith, associate vice provost for student affairs, explains how the university responded to students in need.
Karl Deisseroth and colleagues were able to simultaneously monitor activity in every nerve cell of a zebrafish’s brain and determine which types of neurons were tied to alertness.
An expanding Beyond Sex Ed program is one of several efforts at Stanford to continue evolving educational programming related to healthy relationships and the prevention of sexual violence.
Stanford has developed a new platform to help students find internships, research projects, public service programs and study tours off the Farm – both in the United States and abroad.
As the world continues to burn 100 million barrels of oil a day – a rate that is expected to continue for the next 50 years – Stanford Earth researchers are developing greener ways of extracting the oil and mitigating the resulting greenhouse gases.
A new gel could help grow the large quantities of neural stem cells needed for sought-after therapies. Its success depends on the cells’ ability to stay in touch.
Stanford recently welcomed more than two dozen new transfer students who have begun their studies on the Farm as sophomores and juniors, including 13 U.S. military veterans and 13 individuals who are the first members of their families to attend a four-year college.
A simple recording of a mosquito’s buzz on a cellphone could contribute to a global-scale mosquito tracking map of unprecedented detail. All that’s required to participate is a cellphone to record and submit the buzz of a mosquito, which means almost anyone from around the world can take part in this work.
Law Professor David Alan Sklansky dissects the charges filed against Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos, and explores the scope of Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Stanford’s Russ Altman and Audrey Shafer reflect on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and how it illuminates the moral and ethical challenges of modern science.
The first study to examine the relationship between marijuana use and frequency of sexual intercourse at the population level in the United States shows a positive correlation between the two.
At the Faculty Senate meeting Thursday, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne looked back on his first year and ahead to Stanford’s coming years, while ASSU leaders Justice Tention-Palmer and Vicki Niu presented a report on academics and diversity.
Stanford postdoctoral scholar Claire Dunning traces the history and effects of New Careers, a 1960s federal anti-poverty program. While it helped expand the nonprofit sector, it also perpetuated inequality in urban areas.
Ann Arvin, vice provost and dean of research at Stanford, will step down in fall 2018 after what will be 12 years in the role, to return to research and teaching.
With a new web-scraping and search algorithm and real water utility data, Stanford researchers have shown a relationship between media coverage of the recent historic California drought and household water savings.
Plastics are inexpensive and pervasive, but also degrade slowly and damage critical ecosystems. Stanford chemist Robert Waymouth discusses changes in incentives and technologies to create a more sustainable future for plastics.
A prolific inventor and pioneer of interdisciplinary research, Gordon Kino was a noted educator who devoted his life to developing technologies that have helped transform medical diagnoses.
The Biomedical Innovation Building will be the first in a sequence of new buildings that eventually will replace the outdated complex comprising the Grant, Alway, Lane and Edwards buildings.
A new report from the Stanford History Education Group finds that fact checkers read less but learn more – far outpacing historians and top college students.
The advisory council and university liaison position are aimed at increasing collaboration between the three Stanford Medicine entities – the School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford – and the rest of the university.
Hundreds of people gathered at Cemex Auditorium on Saturday to honor mathematics Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal, who died in July.
The project enlisted professors from top schools to mentor participants to help them pursue academic careers or land better jobs. One even ended up at Stanford.
Stanford proposes to fund four bikeway improvements for neighboring communities in tandem with its pending General Use Permit application. The improvements are designed to coax more employee and community commuters out of their cars and onto their bikes.
Before life could begin, something had to kickstart the production of critical molecules. Chemistry Professor Richard Zare says that something may have been as simple as a mist made up of tiny drops of water.
With its singular focus on one basic thing – floors – a product and business incubated in the course Design for Extreme Affordability is transforming lives in Africa.
