Stanford scientists discuss obstacles for large-scale green initiatives and what it takes for sustainability efforts to deliver lasting benefits across borders, sectors and communities.
Provost Persis Drell is allocating funds to enable all doctoral students in good academic standing to receive 12 months of funding for up to five years.
Stanford Medicine student Joshua Swee is a co-founder of the nonprofit DonatePPE, a nationwide effort to connect charitable donations to hospitals and medical workers battling COVID-19.
Researchers combined avalanche physics with ecosystem data to create a computational method for predicting extreme ecological events. The method may also have applications in economics and politics.
Mandates imposed by the county and state based on the evolving COVID-19 pandemic may prompt changes in the university’s fall academic and undergraduate housing plans. Final decisions about fall plans are targeted for mid-August.
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A team of Stanford researchers is working with the State of California on a new COVID-19 assessment tool to help hospitals and public health officials in their pandemic preparedness planning.
The shrinking of the human jaw in modern humans is not due to genetics but is a lifestyle disease that can be proactively addressed, according to Stanford researchers.
This device offers a significantly faster and easier method for detecting ammonia levels in blood, which can reach dangerous levels in people with certain diseases and genetic conditions.
According to Stanford University Mars experts, NASA’s latest Martian rover will drive a wave of exciting discoveries when it lands on the Red Planet – and possibly alter scientists’ understanding of the blue one it launches from.
With help from his classmates at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Judd Olanoff, MBA ’20, has launched a journalism platform that’s reimagining the news industry for a young, modern audience.
Researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine have discovered that cells infected by viruses or bacteria send out a “don’t eat me” signal to avoid attack by the body’s immune system.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert spoke with School of Medicine Dean Lloyd Minor about the challenges posed by COVID-19, the hope for emerging vaccines and treatments, and what’s still unknown about the virus.
Removing memories associated with morphine use from the brains of mice enables Stanford researchers to prevent relapse and could point to a new approach for treating the opioid epidemic.
As Confederate monuments and memorials are toppled across the United States, Stanford historian James T. Campbell says it is important to think historically not only about the past but also about our own time and what future generations might say about us.
In a Q&A, Stanford law Professor David Freeman Engstrom and Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack of the Michigan Supreme Court discuss COVID-19’s challenge to our civil justice system.
Scholars at the Graduate School of Business say that thinking in terms of a journey rather than a destination can help virus survivors and health care providers mitigate the psychological trauma of the pandemic.
Federal regulators have moved to delay assessment and action on chemicals that could contaminate drinking water. Richard Luthy explains how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and individual states approach waterborne threats.
With innovative tools and access to some of the most whale-friendly waters in the world, Stanford researchers aim to demystify the lives, biology and behavior of the largest creatures on Earth.
In a message to the campus community, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne discusses the federal government’s decision to rescind its July 6 guidance requiring nonimmigrant students who are not taking in-person classes in fall 2020 to leave the United States.
The pandemic has tugged carbon emissions down, temporarily. But levels of the powerful heat-trapping gas methane continue to climb, dragging the world further away from a path that skirts the worst effects of global warming.
Stanford joined colleges and universities in the western U.S. in a lawsuit challenging the federal rule and joined another set of institutions in an amicus brief supporting another challenge.
