Stanford launches fund to bring campus innovations to industry
The High Impact Technology (HIT) Fund provides business guidance and industry connections to Stanford researchers and entrepreneurs, as well as awards of up to $250,000. One of the pilot projects creates immersive sonic experiences by situating participants in the acoustics of any building or physical structure in augmented and mixed reality.
Report of the president: Academic Council Professoriate appointments
The following Academic Council Professoriate appointments, promotions, and reappointments for the periods indicated were reviewed by the Advisory Board of the Academic Council and approved by the president.
When six junior faculty met for a lab crawl in 2016, they weren’t expecting a friendship that would sustain them through years of career and personal milestones.
Three faculty named to the National Academy of Inventors
Stanford faculty members in engineering and medicine have been inducted into the National Academy of Inventors, which is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
The global pandemic is an opportunity to make fundamental changes to how society approaches work by creating working environments centered around creativity, problem-solving and equity, says Adina Sterling.
Stanford neuroscientists Karl Deisseroth and Michelle Monje-Deisseroth talk about finding love on campus and how they approach the career-family puzzle together.
Lerone A. Martin appointed new MLK Institute director
Lerone A. Martin is the second faculty director appointed in the history of Stanford’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, following Clayborne Carson’s retirement in 2020.
Newest American Academy of Arts and Sciences members
Ten Stanford faculty have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies.
