Mike Alvarez, the animal care supervisor in the Veterinary Service Center, will receive the 2017 Marsh O’Neill award at a Nov. 27 reception at the Faculty Club.
Honored as “a great Stanford ambassador,” Abbas Milani is director of Iranian studies, co-director of the Iran Democracy Project and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Gretchen Daily is collecting the Blue Planet Prize in Tokyo for her work promoting practical conservation by revealing the value of nature to human well-being and development.
The annual prize recognizes unheralded individuals who have made significant contributions to global sustainability. Andrij and Roman Zinchenko won for their work supporting and promoting sustainable energy innovation.
Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a neuroscientist who studied philosophy as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, is among 32 scholars and leaders worldwide to be elected this year to the American Philosophical Society.
Three members of the faculty, two members of the staff and three students, including a bachelor’s, master’s and PhD candidate, will receive awards on Sunday, June 18, at the 126th Commencement ceremony in Stanford Stadium.
The Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer will be honored with a 4 million euro prize for three distinct contributions to the medical field: optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry and research into depression.
The winners of the individual awards are Ben Barres, a professor at Stanford Medicine, and James Jordan, a senior manager at the Stanford Alumni Association. The winner of the program award is the Diversity and First-Gen Office.
Stanford leads all Football Bowl Subdivision schools with 14 athletic programs earning perfect 1,000 multi-year scores in the annual Academic Progress Rate statistics issued by the NCAA.
Dominque Bergmann, John Pringle and Anne Villeneuve are now part of an organization designed to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology.
The awards honor the life and work of the late Amy J. Blue, an associate vice president for administrative services and facilities, who was known as a woman of incisive intelligence, abundant energy and unrelenting honesty.
Stanford undergraduates have won a national prize for their work developing a new antibiotic to combat the growing threat of multidrug-resistant bacteria.
Stanford’s Dave Donaldson has been honored by the American Economics Association with the John Bates Clark Medal, recognizing his innovative and scholarly contributions in the field of international trade.
Alexis Kallen, who hopes to become a human rights lawyer, is one of 62 recipients of the scholarship, which provides up to $30,000 for graduate study – in the United States and abroad – to students who are committed to careers in public service.
Eleven 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.
The goal of the Churchill Scholarships program, established at the request of Sir Winston Churchill, is to advance science and technology on both sides of the Atlantic, helping to ensure future prosperity and security.
