Undergraduate fellows gained hands-on experience in botany and ecology at Stanford’s biological preserve this summer, making a trove of plant data available to the public and implementing and testing a wildfire management plan that reduces risk for the local community.
Tadashi Fukami named faculty director of Jasper Ridge
The professor of biology and of Earth system science is known for exploring complex plant and animal communities through elegant, small-scale experiments that expose students to research in the field.
Walter Falcon, global authority on food security, has died
Raised on a farm in east Iowa and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, the Stanford economics professor was an internationally sought-after agricultural adviser.
The new curator and assistant director of the Stanford University Archaeology Collections says the pieces in her charge have something to offer all disciplines. “It’s really powerful to be in the presence of objects. The more time you spend with a work of art or artifact, the more it can teach you.”
Haiyan Lee, author of a new book that compares Chinese and American views of justice, on why spy thrillers are more popular in China than detective stories.
“It is customary to speak of someone having a gender identity, but most of us have many gender feels, which need not pattern together in any particular way,” Stanford philosopher R.A. Briggs writes in a new co-authored book.
New model helps fill gaps in African American ancestry
The authors of a study that introduces a new way of thinking about genealogy discuss interpreting ancestry fractions in relation to family trees and why they used former first lady Michelle Obama’s family as an example.
Both animal and plant stem cells rely on the cytoskeleton to divide properly, but in opposite ways. The findings could help researchers engineer more resilient plants.
Gift boosts vision for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
A gift from Stanford alum Evan Spiegel helps advance the institute’s mission, including digitizing King’s writings and relocating to a new space at the heart of campus.
On World Ocean Day, three Stanford graduate students share what led them to study the world's oceans, and why the next generation of ocean scholars must define the field more broadly.
David conducted influential research on technology diffusion and sought to make the study of economic history more rigorous by promoting a quantitative approach to the field.
The professor emeritus of history helped found the fields of modern Japanese history and Asian studies and is remembered for his prolific scholarship, humor, and grace.
The professor emeritus of anthropology was instrumental in establishing Japanese studies at Stanford and is remembered as a gifted and selfless mentor.
