Thomas Kenny, senior associate dean for student affairs in the School of Engineering, and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research are recognized for exceptional contributions to enhancing and supporting diversity within the Stanford community.
Karla Kirkegaard, Mark Krasnow, Todd Martinez and William Weis are now part of an organization created in 1863 to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology.
Bruce Cain has won the Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize, which recognizes Stanford faculty who engage students in integrating academic scholarship with significant and meaningful volunteer service to society.
Mary-Peck Peters, a head teacher at Bing Nursery School, will receive a 2019 Amy J. Blue Award at a campus ceremony on April 30. The award honors staff members who are exceptionally dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work.
Heidi Marisol López, finance assistant and graduate fellowships coordinator at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, recently won an Amy J. Blue Award.
Laura Dominguez Chan, associate dean of career education and director of career communities at Stanford Career Education, recently won an Amy J. Blue Award, which honors staff who are exceptionally dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work.
The Stanford faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies, are scholars in the fields of education, performing arts, economics, law and mathematics.
Eva Borgwardt, whose academic and public service work has focused on Israeli-Palestinian relations, hopes to use the Truman Scholarship to pursue a joint degree program in law and global affairs.
Five scholars with Stanford affiliations have won Soros Fellowships, which provide financial support for graduate study at any U.S. university. Soros Fellows are either immigrants or the children of immigrants and are selected based on merit.
The awards honor the life and work of the late Amy J. Blue, associate vice president for administrative services and facilities, who was known as a woman of incisive intelligence, abundant energy and unrelenting honesty.
The 2019 cohort of Knight-Hennessy Scholars includes a senior majoring in chemistry; a coterminal student studying biology, economics and computer science; and three alumni from the classes of 2015, 2017 and 2018.
Three seniors and a medical student are among the 34 Americans awarded scholarships to pursue graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England.
The Churchill Scholarship promotes scientific exchange between the United States and the United Kingdom, with the goal of advancing science and technology on both sides of the Atlantic.
A look back at the year that included distinguished visitors, prestigious awards, athletic wins, research advancements, a thriving arts scene and more.
As Schwarzman Scholars, the students will earn one-year master’s degrees in global affairs – with a focus on public policy, economics and business, or international studies – at Tsinghua University in Beijing. They will begin their studies in August 2019.
Professor John Boothroyd was chosen as faculty director of the Stanford-based convening of the Schmidt Science Fellows. The fellowship program includes two postdoctoral scholars who have joined research groups on campus.
Todd Eberspacher, manager of facilities, environmental health and safety, and infrastructure information technology in the Chemistry Department, will receive the 2018 Marsh O’Neill Award during a Nov. 26 reception at the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center.
Tina Seelig, a professor of the practice in management science and engineering and a faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, is the 2018 winner of the Richard W. Lyman Award.
Aron Wall employs concepts from across theoretical physics, from black holes to the holographic principle, in the quest to answer a fundamental question: What is spacetime?
The Stanford scientists will receive $32 million over five years to fund explorations of cancer, the brain, the aging process, chromosomes and the development of cells.
Seventeen Stanford faculty are part of new Bay Area-wide collaborative research teams funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, co-directed by Stephen Quake.
