2013 News Releases
Below you will find an index to the 2013 news releases from Stanford University.
You also can search the complete library to locate releases by specific criteria. This library contains releases dating from 1991 to the present.
December 20
- Stanford researchers take a step toward developing a 'universal' flu vaccine
- Renowned abstract expressionist artist and former Stanford art professor dies at 92
December 19
December 18
December 17
December 16
December 13
- Stanford classics workshop brings the ancient and the cutting edge together
- Stanford admits 748 early applicants to the Class of 2018
December 12
- 3-D printing creates murky product liability issues, Stanford scholar says
- Stanford University reports FY 2013 financial results
December 11
- At Stanford, inaugural Bright Award lecturer makes a passionate plea to preserve the world's forests
December 10
- Rising mountains dried out Central Asia, Stanford scientists say
- Stanford senior a pioneer in traumatic brain injury research
December 9
- 'iLabs' offer a new way to add science experiments to online education
- Stanford scientists probe abandoned mine for clues about permanent CO2 sequestration
- Runaway process drives intermediate-depth earthquakes, Stanford scientists find
December 6
December 5
December 4
December 3
- Stanford Bio-X researchers develop new technology to study hearing
- Prawn vs. snail: Stanford researchers use competition to fight disease
December 2
November 27
- Groundbreakers in fashion industry share insights at Stanford
- Stanford scholars explain historic nuclear deal with Tehran
November 26
- Schools not inspiring students to participate in civic life, Stanford scholar says
- U.S. methane emissions 50 percent higher than expected, Stanford researcher says
November 25
November 22
November 21
November 19
November 18
November 17
November 14
- Stanford scientists create a durable, low-cost water splitter made of silicon and nickel
- Lynn Orr to be nominated by White House to head DOE energy research
November 13
- Mindy B. Rogers, education advocate, elected to Stanford's Board of Trustees
- Ronald A. Rebholz, Stanford professor emeritus of English, dead at 81
- Stanford University announces inaugural recipient of the Bright Award
- Red states support climate legislation, too, Stanford analysts find
November 11
November 8
November 7
November 4
- Quantity, not just quality, in new Stanford brain scan method
- Stanford launches latest version of free iPhone/iPad apps course
- Professor Clifford I. Nass, expert on human/computer interactions, dead at 55
October 31
- Nalini Ambady, Stanford psychology professor, dies at 54
- Preventive measures taken after virus sickens 52 students
October 30
October 29
- Stanford faculty awarded $2.2 million for innovative energy research
- Stanford research shows Aboriginal hunting practice increases animal populations
October 24
October 22
October 18
- Stanford scientists making good use of those vacation photos you posted online
- Stanford's student-built home ranks high in green building competition
October 17
- Scientists develop heat-resistant materials that could vastly improve solar cell efficiency
- Incentive plan for Washington teachers drives performance gains, Stanford, Virginia researchers say
October 16
- Stanford drones open way to new world of coral research
- Stanford MOOC goes to extremes to teach Environmental Physiology
October 15
- Entrepreneur Jim Clark to donate $60 million for interdisciplinary research at Stanford
- Talking directly to toddlers strengthens their language skills, Stanford research shows
October 14
October 11
October 10
- Engineering Dean Jim Plummer to step down after record tenure at Stanford
- Are you happy now? Katie Couric moderates Stanford's annual Roundtable
October 9
- Stanford releases fiscal-year fundraising results
- Sexualized avatars affect the real world, Stanford researchers find
- Stanford fellowship offers early-career teachers support and incentive to stay in the classroom
- Bank of America joins Stanford’s Global Climate & Energy Project
October 8
October 7
October 6
October 4
October 1
September 30
- Jason Linetzky named first director of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University
- Stanford scientists build a microscope to spot the seeds of cancer
September 27
- Stanford, SLAC researchers demonstrate 'accelerator on a chip'
- Stanford linguistics professor and cognitive scientist Ivan Sag dies at 63
September 26
September 25
- Language gap between rich and poor children begins in infancy, Stanford psychologists find
- A first: Stanford engineers build basic computer using carbon nanotubes
- Stanford Management Company releases 2013 results
September 24
September 23
- Global warming to drive increase in severe thunderstorm risk in U.S., Stanford research finds
- Q&A: Stanford scholar on how highly skilled Asian immigrants have become the benchmark for achievement
September 20
- Stanford Center on Longevity competition challenges students to design products to help older adults
September 19
September 16
September 11
September 9
September 6
- Bats spreading deadly virus, Stanford scientist warns
- To encourage green living, Stanford students build a better light switch
September 5
- Global warming has increased risk of record heat, say Stanford scientists
- Susan Cashion, Stanford Dance Division faculty member, artist and dance community leader, has died
- StartX, Stanford University and Stanford Hospital & Clinics announce $3.6M grant and venture fund
September 4
- China's clean-water program benefits people and the environment, Stanford research shows
- Stanford research helps people with social phobia face their fears
September 3
August 29
- Stanford filmmaker aims to reveal injustices of wrongful convictions
- Stanford scholars examine outcome of military strike against Syria
August 28
- New Stanford program brings innovative engineering ideas to life
- Stanford solar scientists solve one of the sun's mysteries
- High school students take a philosophical approach to history and literature at the Stanford Summer Humanities Institute
August 27
August 26
- Stanford-affiliated sea-faring robot searches for toxic algae in Puget Sound
- New Stanford website takes a digital approach to an ancient topic: families
August 23
August 22
August 21
August 20
August 19
August 16
August 15
August 14
August 12
August 9
- Robert M. Bass returning to Stanford's Board of Trustees
- Stanford's Environment and Energy Building achieves 'Platinum' grade
- New source of arsenic threatens groundwater in Vietnam, Stanford research finds
August 6
- Stanford humanities course empowers recovering addicts and alcoholics
- Stanford undergraduate organizes bioengineering boot camp for high school students
August 5
August 4
August 1
- Stanford engineers receive award to improve supercomputing and solar efficiency
- Climate change occurring 10 times faster than at any time in past 65 million years, Stanford scientists say
July 31
July 30
July 29
July 25
- Stanford researchers seek to preserve where the wild things are
- Investigating apparent IT breach, Stanford urges users to update passwords
- Stanford Live Executive Director Wiley Hausam looks forward to 2013-14 and beyond
July 24
July 22
July 19
- Through photos and memorabilia, Stanford's Allen Ginsberg collection captures a generation
- Stanford expert says Internet's backbone can readily be made more sustainable
July 18
- Stanford scientists break record for thinnest light-absorber
- Memorial service set for Robert Hamerton-Kelly, former dean of the chapel
July 17
- Big ideas: Stanford program teaches innovators business and leadership skills
- Stanford researchers reveal great white sharks' fuel for oceanic voyages: liver oil
July 16
July 15
- From China to U.S., the game of mahjong shaped modern America, says Stanford scholar
- The best defense against catastrophic storms: Mother Nature, say Stanford researchers
July 14
July 10
July 9
July 3
- Kids eat more vegetables after nutrition lessons, Stanford study finds
- Stanford researcher Doug Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse, dies
July 2
July 1
June 28
- Border control leaves undocumented migrants displaced, says Stanford historian
- Stanford online course for teachers, parents: Helping students to love math
June 27
June 26
June 20
- Stanford and Columbia students awarded 'Magic Grants' to bring innovation to the media world
- From bridges to snails and lead contamination, seven new sustainability research projects for Stanford Woods Institute
June 13
- Stanford students' robots play golf, stack dominoes, swat balloons
- Protests have changed Turkey, says Stanford expert
June 11
June 10
June 6
June 5
June 4
- Stanford scientists create novel silicon electrodes that improve lithium-ion battery performance
- Stanford scientists develop efficient zinc-air battery
- Earthquake acoustics can indicate if a massive tsunami is imminent, Stanford researchers find
June 3
- Stanford software engineering MOOC aims at future startup CEOs
- Stanford scholar looks at the commercialization of Christian rock
May 29
May 23
- Stanford scholar sheds light on Greek immigrant's rags-to-riches story
- Stanford scientists urge action on global climate change
May 22
May 21
- Stanford humanities scholars harness the power of crowdsourcing
- Stanford visiting artist Robert Henke to perform a 'musical machine'
May 20
- Stanford physicists develop revolutionary low-power polariton laser
- The Golden Gate is returning to Stanford May 30
May 17
May 16
- Earth's iron core is surprisingly weak, Stanford researchers say
- Stanford adds walkers, bikers to incentive-based study to relieve traffic congestion
May 15
- Frogs in California harbor deadly amphibian pathogen, Stanford researchers find
- Evolution shapes new rules for ant behavior, Stanford research finds
- The music of the Arab Spring finds a home on the Stanford campus
- Q&A: Steven Chu on returning to Stanford, his time as U.S. Energy Secretary
- Stanford professor and former NASA official explains how NASA might revive the Kepler space telescope
May 14
May 13
May 9
May 6
- New Stanford research on speed dating examines what makes couples 'click' in four minutes
- Stanford engineers' new metamaterial doubles up on invisibility
May 3
May 2
- Stanford-led research pushes back origins of agriculture in China by 12,000 years
- At Stanford, Education Secretary speaks on preschool, online ed and diversity
May 1
April 30
April 29
April 24
April 23
April 22
April 16
April 15
- Turbulent seas signal sea urchin larvae to settle down, Stanford scientist discovers
- Stanford scholar Adam Johnson wins Pulitzer Prize in fiction
April 12
April 11
April 10
April 9
April 8
- Community Partnership Awards honor three service programs
- Stanford seeks sea urchin's secret to surviving ocean acidification
April 5
- Stanford's Rice says declining schools pose a national security threat
- Stanford's Hank Greely presents the ethics of resurrecting extinct species
- 'Pied Piper of new research-based legal education' chosen for 2013 Roland Volunteer Service Prize
April 4
- Stanford philosopher seeks to create a more just and fair workplace for caregivers
- Fabiola Gianotti, co-discoverer of Higgs boson particle, to give 2013 Hofstadter Lectures at Stanford
April 3
- Stanford's Cantor Arts Center partners with the Google Art Project, an international online art gallery
- Tickets go on sale for TEDxStanford 2013, set to the beat of breakthrough innovation
- At Stanford lecture, Sandberg urges women to seek leadership roles
April 2
- Global solar photovoltaic industry is likely now a net energy producer, Stanford researchers find
- Stanford program produces teachers with long-term commitment to schools, survey shows
- President Obama's new $100 million brain research initiative taps several Stanford scientists
March 29
- End-of-year Frost Music and Arts Festival features MGMT, Delorean and Kuroma
- Stanford faculty members share their online education experiences
- New tools help smart low-income kids realize great college opportunities, Stanford researcher says
- Applications for the Class of 2017 set record at Stanford
March 28
- Stanford biologist gets a squid's eye view
- Construction begins for Stanford's student-designed solar house
- Stanford survey: Americans back preparation for extreme weather and sea-level rise
March 26
March 25
March 20
March 19
March 18
- Who wrote Shakespeare's plays? Stanford professor lets you decide
- Stanford students present visions for the future of driving
March 15
- It's time to take boredom seriously, says Stanford literary professor
- Long-term evolution is 'surprisingly predictable,' Stanford experiment shows
March 14
- Under Stanford's transplant program, trees flourish in new homes
- Stanford engineers develop high-resolution endoscope as thin as a human hair
- An old, mysterious letter gets Stanford students off their computers and into archival research
March 12
- Stanford researcher maps out an alternative energy future for New York
- Stanford's GCEP will award $6.6 million for novel energy research
March 11
- Stanford scientist joins call for major brain research project
- Stanford's Cantor Arts Center draws kids in with new family program
- After another near miss, Stanford professor wants to find asteroids that threaten Earth
March 8
March 7
- Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands, to speak at Stanford on March 13
- Joseph Frank, Stanford's acclaimed Dostoevsky biographer, dies at 94
- Stanford psychologists uncover brain-imaging inaccuracies
- New online curriculum by Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research gives business, enrichment tips
March 5
March 4
- Hand over your email inbox to boost productivity, Stanford team says
- Stanford scientist uses Fukushima radiation to reveal swimming secrets of Pacific bluefin tuna
- Stanford scholar looks to genes to make sense of the dollars you invest
- Stanford 'Makers-in-Residence' program gives teens taste of real-world engineering
March 1
February 27
February 26
- Stanford scientist closes in on a mystery that impedes space exploration
- Stanford Libraries award prizes for international innovation
- In an assessment of Pope Benedict XVI's legacy, Stanford scholar predicts continued conservatism
February 25
- Stanford scientists help shed light on key component of China's pollution problem
- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be the 2013 Commencement speaker at Stanford
- New course brings 'The Art of Living' to Stanford and to the airwaves
February 22
February 21
February 20
- Stanford scholar explains why zombie fascination is very much alive
- Inequality in schools threatens U.S. prosperity, Stanford scholars say
February 19
- Stanford researchers develop tool for reading the minds of mice
- Stanford scientists fit light-emitting bioprobe in a single cell
February 16
February 15
- Stanford ecologist uses social media data to gauge recreational value of coastal areas
- Stanford: Open-source software can help find the right space for offshore wind turbines
- Leading Miltonist Martin Evans of Stanford dies at 78
February 14
- Simple interventions bridge the achievement gap between Latino and white students, Stanford researcher finds
- Cosmic rays come from exploding stars, say Stanford astrophysicists
February 12
- More than a Stanford concert hall, Bing is a high-tech music research lab
- Babies whose efforts are praised become more motivated kids, say Stanford researchers
- Stanford law prof, security expert to lead university's international studies institute
- Stanford raises undergraduate tuition 3.5 percent, continues financial aid commitment for 2013-14 school year
February 11
- Stanford scientist uncovers the reproductive workings of a harvester ant dynasty
- Stanford experts on the State of the Union
- Stanford professor puts desire in a medieval context
February 5
February 1
- Stanford classics professor debunks image of the 'noble' ancient athlete
- Stanford mathematician models the spread – and prevention – of crime as a wave
- Q&A: Stanford scholars on immigration reform
January 31
- Stanford economists talk tax reform
- Stanford students' variations on a theme by Kotche
- Stanford experiment shows that virtual superpowers encourage real-world empathy
- Stanford scientists chipping away at graphene's secrets
January 30
- Stanford Board of Trustees elects LaTonia G. Karr to five-year term
- Stanford-led team pioneers new way to survey thawing Arctic
January 29
January 28
- To motivate many Americans, think 'me' before 'we,' say Stanford psychologists
- Stanford's 'Another Look' book club to spotlight Janet Lewis' 'Wife of Martin Guerre'
January 25
January 24
January 23
January 22
- Stanford's Archive of Recorded Sound offers traditional jazz 24/7
- In massive online course offered by Stanford, teams unleash diverse approaches to creativity
January 18
- Stanford students build solar home in national competition
- U.N. Secretary-General tells Stanford students to be 'global citizens'
- From the man who left Goldman Sachs, advice to Stanford about saving Wall Street from itself
January 17
January 16
January 15
- Reduce greenhouse gas by exporting coal? Yes, says Stanford economist
- Poor ranking on international test misleading about U.S. student performance, Stanford researcher finds
January 14
- Lindi Press, longtime member of the Stanford community, dead at 66
- Seed grants enable new online courses for Stanford students
- Stanford renames education school to emphasize its graduate research, education
January 11
- Stanford scholar Roland Greene holds up poetry as cultural mirror
- Stanford biologists: Equal rights for women a critical first step to avoiding civilization's collapse
- Stanford report says college degree is an advantage during the recession
January 9
- Heat-resistant corals provide clues to climate change survival, Stanford researchers say
- Stanford's Bing Concert Hall opens this Friday with soundscape fanfare