One of three winners of this year's award, Taylor is honored for her many contributions in her nearly 50 years at Stanford, most recently as the finance manager in the Department of Economics.
Judges considered scientific importance, technical prowess, and artistic merit when selecting the 10 winners of the inaugural Andrew Olson Scientific Image Awards.
The 70 scholars in Knight-Hennessy Scholars' fifth cohort come from 42 institutions, including 13 outside of the United States. At Stanford, they will pursue graduate degrees in 35 degree programs across all seven schools.
The researchers are among the 120 newly elected members of an organization created in 1863 to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology.
Impactful public service projects and an increasingly diverse network of scholars are among the highlights of the first years of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, which supports Stanford graduate students and strengthens their leadership skills.
The honor recognizes mid-career scholars, artists, and scientists who have demonstrated a previous capacity for outstanding work and continue to show exceptional promise.
Quenton Bubb, Esther Elonga, and Tania Fabo have been named members of the 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which supports the graduate education of U.S. immigrants and children of immigrants.
The professor of biology was honored by the Society for the Study of Evolution for contributions to our understanding of human population genetics and cultural evolutionary theory.
The Neuroscience:Translate grant program funds researchers across the university whose projects include devices, medications and VR for the treatment of autism, depression, Parkinson’s disease and more.
Matthew O. Jackson, professor of economics, received the Frontiers of Knowledge Award for research that reveals the role of networks in economic and social life.
Chemistry Professor Carolyn Bertozzi is honored for creating a new biochemical field of study and contributing to the understanding of a network of cellular molecules important to health and disease.
Kevin Fan Hsu, a Stanford alumnus and lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, has won a 2022 Gates Cambridge Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England.
Carolyn Bertozzi, professor of chemistry and director of Stanford ChEM-H, has been awarded the Lifetime Mentor Award that recognizes significant contributions to mentorship and to increasing diversity in STEM fields.
Stanford's Dan Jurafsky, professor of linguistics and of computer science, was honored for his groundbreaking contributions to computational linguistics and the sociology of language.
The award recognizes research by a mid-career scientist who has made an extraordinary contribution to agriculture or to the understanding of the biology of a species fundamentally important to agriculture or food production.
The chair of the School of Engineering’s Department of Chemical Engineering received the award for her innovations in bio-interfacing wearable health monitoring devices.
The second cohort of CZ Biohub Investigators includes awardees from a broad range of disciplines, with fresh approaches to biological and medical problems.
Four Stanford students who have been named Schwarzman Scholars will spend the 2022-23 academic year at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where they will earn a one-year master’s degree in global affairs and participate in a leadership program.
Sayeh Kohani, who is studying bioengineering and public policy, has won a 2022 Rhodes Scholarship, which provides all expenses for two or three years of graduate study at the University of Oxford in England.
The Hoover Tower’s Observation Deck and carillon were named in memory of Lou Henry Hoover, Stanford University graduate, philanthropist, trailblazer for women and the wife of America’s 31st president, Herbert Hoover.
Stanford’s Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program recognizes faculty for extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education. Provost Persis Drell announced the eight faculty members who have been appointed or reappointed as 2021 Bass University Fellows during the Faculty Senate meeting on Thursday.
Peter Vitousek and Gretchen Daily recently received honorary membership in the British Ecological Society. This is the organization's highest honor recognizing exceptional contribution at the international level to the generation, communication and promotion of ecological knowledge and solutions.
Professors Maximilian Diehn, Mary Hawn, Michelle Monje and Carla Pugh of the School of Medicine are among the 100 members elected this year to the National Academy of Medicine.
