At a special meeting on Thursday, the Academic Council discussed but did not vote on a faculty resolution calling on Stanford to greatly accelerate its efforts to divest from fossil fuel companies and to transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions no later than 2030.
Two Stanford graduate students and three undergraduates are among the recipients of the awards, which support overseas studies in regions critical to United States interests.
The Supreme Court’s ruling last week that federal law protects gay and transgender workers from discrimination was facilitated, in part, by law students working in the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.
This year’s Experimental Robotics class was moved online due to COVID-19 but students used the same programming skillset in simulation to complete their tasks.
In a graduate seminar taught by Stanford medical anthropologist S. Lochlann Jain, students examined how previous epidemics – such as yellow fever, smallpox, polio and AIDS – can illuminate the social dynamics and politics of the era.
Stanford psychologists suggest that aid programs can be more effective with messaging that conveys dignity and empowerment in culturally relevant ways and does not jeopardize donations.
Across five decades of psychological research, publications that highlight race are rare, and when race is discussed, it is authored mostly and edited almost entirely by white scholars, according to a new Stanford study.
The Academic Council convened its first special meeting in 50 years in response to a faculty petition requesting a “full and broad” discussion of a new academic policy recently approved by the Faculty Senate.
Using a virus as an experimental system, Kaiser made fundamental discoveries that were instrumental in ushering in the era of recombinant DNA technology, often known as gene splicing.
Stanford economist Rebecca Diamond compiled a unique dataset to uncover fresh research insights into foreclosure’s effects on homeowners, landlords and renters.
The first-of-its-kind study reveals that subsidies for the planting of commercially valuable tree plantations in Chile resulted in the loss of biologically valuable natural forests and little, if any, additional carbon sequestration.
Engineers have devised a model to describe how, in the process of establishing wind farms, interactions between developers and landowners affect energy production costs.
Immigration law experts Jayashri Srikantiah, the founding director of Stanford Law’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, and lecturer Lisa Weissman-Ward, a supervising attorney with the clinic, discuss the case and decision.
As a limited number of people return to campus, starting with additional researchers on June 22, operational changes are being implemented to maintain campus health and safety.
Among Stanford’s 2020 graduates is Guillermo Camarillo, whose unlikely path to the Farm was paved in part by a “village” of people who supported his pursuit of higher education.
As he ends his 30-year career at Stanford, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Harry Elam shares his parting thoughts, reflects on the current moment and offers his congratulations to the Class of 2020.
Graduate students Kari Barclay and Will Paisley – the new co-chairs of the Graduate Student Council – talk about supporting their fellow grad students during an academic year unlike any other.
A founder of the field of sleep medicine, ardent campaigner against the dangers of drowsiness and teacher of Stanford’s hugely popular Sleep and Dreams course, William Dement has died.
Stanford researchers are working to find strategies to reduce the spread of COVID-19 among the incarcerated and inform mitigation strategies in other high-density living situations.
