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Stanford Medicine magazine —

Medical student Ashley Jowell advocates for eco-curriculum

Fourth-year Stanford School of Medicine medical student Ashley Jowell led a group of other students helping to weave material about the environment and health into the school’s curriculum.

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Stanford Medicine —

Health care launchpad supports innovation

Stanford Medicine’s Catalyst program wants to help innovators across Stanford get their life-altering ideas to providers and patients.

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Stanford Graduate School of Business —

Immigrant inventors generate disproportionate share of patents

Foreign-born inventors generate a disproportionate share of patents – and make their U.S.-born collaborators more productive.

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Stanford Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law —

A MOOC for solving public policy problems

A new MOOC uses real-world case studies to give would-be reformers a framework for solving public policy problems.

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Stanford Digital Education —

Digital Medic helps promote vaccines

An approachable avatar is the face of a toolkit that helps community health workers worldwide promote vaccines and counter misinformation.

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Stanford News —

Data offers a new way to predict malaria outbreaks

The study integrates climate, land use, and socioeconomic data to explain and predict malaria dynamics at the village level. The approach could inform health care practitioners and make control strategies more efficient and cost-effective.

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Stanford Medicine —

Telehelp Ukraine’s creative, compassionate care

What began as an idea for connecting U.S. doctors with patients in war-torn Ukraine has become a thriving telehealth service with providers from around the world.

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Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research —

A low-cost fix for tech’s diversity problem

As tech companies struggle to diversify their workforces, Stanford’s Susan Athey and Emil Palikot have designed an online program to accelerate the hiring of women and minorities.

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Stanford Digital Education —

How do we arrive at a more equitable and accessible future for higher education?

A monthly series of author talks on academic innovation in support of equity and access is syndicated by 15 universities and could change the way we approach other academic collaborations.

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Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences —

Stanford historian explores how expulsions became widespread in medieval Europe

A new book by Rowan Dorin explores the interwoven history of expulsions of Jewish and Christian moneylenders in the Middle Ages.

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Stanford Graduate School of Education —

Project documents invisible costs of living undocumented

A Stanford-based research project seeks to reframe the dominant narrative about undocumented life in the U.S. by putting first-person stories front and center.

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Redesigning STEM courses for inclusivity

The IDEAL Research Lab, led by education Assistant Professor Shima Salehi, helps redesign introductory science and engineering classes to address barriers for historically marginalized students.

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Stanford Digital Education —

Digital assessment tools transform language program

Working with university experts in learning technologies, Language Center Director Elizabeth Bernhardt developed a paperless testing system for Stanford language programs that she hopes to share with others on campus.

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