Alex Ferris and Sarah Hooper are spending the summer interning with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve health and development outcomes globally.
Mathematics Professor Akshay Venkatesh won the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics. He is known as someone with broad expertise who has contributed to many areas of math.
Three computer science students created a bot that can detect humor in spoken language. The research garnered them an award at a recent conference in Singapore.
Howard Chang and Elizabeth Sattely join 22 other Stanford faculty as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators. The seven-year term frees faculty to pursue the most innovative biomedical research.
The award recognizes and honors individuals and programs that have made exceptional contributions to enhancing and supporting diversity within the Stanford community.
Every healthcare innovation helping patients today started as no more than a dream and a clever prototype. Now, a new round of ideas is getting a jump start on the path to reality from a grant program intended to accelerate healthcare solutions.
Nadarajan Chetty, Trevor Hastie and Daniel Herschlag are now part of an organization designed to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology.
Nicole Ardoin, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education, has been awarded the Haas Center for Public Service’s Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize, which recognizes faculty who involve students in integrating academic scholarship with volunteer service.
Sagan is a senior fellow in the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford.
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.
Nine members of the Stanford faculty have been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies.
Jack Andraka hopes to put his training in engineering, anthropology and data science to work as a public health physician devoted to addressing global health inequities affecting citizens in low- and middle-income countries.
Lukas Felzmann, Rob Jackson and Thomas Mullaney received 2018 Guggenheim Fellowships in recognition of their prior work and future potential exploring the world through art, science and history.
Virtually all tablets, phones and smart devices run on a computer architecture developed by former Stanford President John Hennessy and his collaborator David Patterson. They won the 2017 Turing Award for their contribution.
Jelani Munroe, an international student from Jamaica who discovered a passion for economics and public policy on the Farm, also developed his singing voice with Stanford Talisman through performances on campus, and on tour in the United States and in South Africa.
The goal of the Churchill Scholarship program is to promote scientific exchange between the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to ensure future prosperity and security.
Michael Zhu Chen is one of five individuals with Stanford affiliations who will begin graduate programs at the University of Oxford in England next fall as Rhodes Scholars.
Qitong “Thomas” Cao will pursue a master’s degree in Social Science of the Internet at the University of Oxford in England. Cao is one of five people – four students and one alumnus – with Stanford affiliations chosen as 2018 Rhodes Scholars.
Prathik Naidu is in Stockholm for the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony as a student representative presenting his research on machine learning to analyze the three-dimensional structure of DNA in cancer cells.
Madeleine Chang is one of four Stanford seniors and an alumnus who will head to the University of Oxford next fall to begin their graduate studies as Rhodes Scholars. This is the first in a series of profiles of the scholars.
