Hewlett-Packard co-founder considered in renaming of Palo Alto middle school
At next Wednesday’s Palo Alto Unified School District Board meeting, two names will be recommended to replace the names of Jordan Middle School and Terman Middle School, respectively. Among the nine...
View ArticleTad and Dianne Taube donate $14.5M to youth concussion and addiction research...
Earlier this year, Tad and Dianne Taube of Taube Philanthropies donated $14.5 million to research initiatives on addiction and concussion in youth at the Stanford School of Medicine and Lucile Packard...
View ArticleTessier-Lavigne’s postdoctoral advisor removed from Columbia position due to...
President Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s postdoctoral advisor, Thomas Jessell, has been removed from his positions at Columbia University due to “serious violations of University policies and values governing...
View ArticleWhat matters to us and why: financial and ethical implications of long-range...
“Wouldn’t it be great if Stanford were able to operate like the Gates Foundation, where we used the grants that we were awarded and used the incredible talent and resources here to tackle major...
View ArticleHennessy shares Turing Award with UC Berkeley collaborator
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) presented its annual Turing Award to former Stanford President John Hennessy in honor of his work designing efficient computer architectures, which...
View ArticleSecretary of Energy Rick Perry praises SLAC researchers, talks energy obstacles
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry made his final stop on his tour of national laboratories in the Bay Area at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on Mar. 28, when he delivered a motivational speech...
View ArticleStanford alum advocates for solar energy in seminar on new book
In a Monday, April 2 afternoon presentation on his new book, “Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet,” Varun Sivaram ’11 stressed current constraints on solar power...
View ArticleStanford researchers track cancer growth with genome editing, DNA barcoding
A novel technique developed by Stanford scientists combines genome editing and DNA barcoding to more accurately and efficiently track the effects of cancer-related genetic interactions in the lungs of...
View ArticleStanford students receive three out of 10 Hertz fellowships nationwide
Three Stanford students are among 10 Hertz Scholars nationwide: Sarah Hooper, a first-year Ph.D. student, William Kuszmaul ‘18 and Ethan Sussman ‘18. Of 750 annual applicants, only 10 to 15 receive the...
View ArticleApril 19: On this day in Stanford history
The feature “On this day in Stanford history” details events that occurred on the same date in past years at Stanford. According to The Stanford Daily’s archives, on April 19 in… 1906 — In the wake of...
View ArticleAndraka named Truman scholar
Jack Andraka ’19, a double major in electrical engineering and anthropology who has developed medical devices to address a range of public health concerns, was named a 2018 Truman Scholar on April 12....
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‘Doing ambiguity’: a Q&A with Lily Zheng
Since graduating last spring, Lily Zheng ’17 M.A. ’18 has worked for the DGen Office and as a diversity consultant. Now, she’s getting ready to publish her first book, coauthored with Alison Ash...
View ArticleFaculty Senate approves PI waivers for Med School, discusses FLI needs
In its Thursday meeting, the Faculty Senate approved a permanent implementation of the principal investigator (PI) waiver program at the Stanford School of Medicine, which will allow post-doctoral...
View ArticleStanford researchers uncover complex neural pathways associated with...
A recent Stanford research report provides new details on the workings of Parkinson’s disease that may carry implications for future treatment and for similar ailments. The team, led in part by biology...
View ArticleStanford researchers uncover the high levels of dangerous tapeworm infection...
A recent Stanford study led by infectious diseases instructor at the Stanford School of Medicine John Openshaw has uncovered high levels of tapeworm infections among elementary schoolers in the western...
View ArticleArchive of Recorded Sound demos century-old music players
On Wednesday afternoon, the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound held an open house to commemorate 60 years of its establishment. Sound archives librarian Frank Ferko introduced the history of recorded...
View ArticlePresident and Provost commit to international need-blind admissions, announce...
A commitment to need-blind admissions for international students, increased faculty diversity and an 80 percent carbon-free, zero-waste campus by 2030 were among the prominent issues presented by...
View ArticleDinneny Lab examines plant growth
Led by plant biology associate professor José Dinneny, the Dinneny Lab explores plant growth in relation to environmental stressors, particularly investigating how plants’ roots sense water...
View ArticleErtharin Cousin talks food insecurity, conflict and climate change
After a year as the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), food security trailblazer Ertharin Cousin gave one last talk in Paul Brest Hall on...
View ArticleExamining money and diversity in paid studies on campus
Fliers recruiting participants for research studies conducted by the Graduate School of Business (GSB) Behavioral Lab, the psychology department, the Laboratory for Social Research and more can be...
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Research examines ethics of machine learning in medicine
David Magnus, director Center of Bioethics, Stanford, in front of Rodin’s Gates of Hell.(Courtesy of Stanford Medicine/Steve Fisch Photography) According to a March perspective piece by three Stanford...
View ArticleResearchers work to ensure data validity amid rise in online studies
Amid the growing use of online survey platforms to conduct research, Stanford labs are working to both increase the number of participants in their experiments and, at the same time, reduce the...
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Director of Stanford Cyber Initiative discusses ethical implications of tech...
Allison Berke is the executive director of the Stanford Cyber Initiative, where she manages the program’s research, education and outreach work. Stanford Cyber Initiative conducts research related to...
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Physicist named Stanford vice provost and dean of research
Kathryn Moler ’88 Ph.D. ’95, a material physicist and senior associate dean of natural sciences in the School of Humanities and Sciences, has been named vice provost and dean of research, Provost...
View ArticlePiech monitors student code in ‘Pensieve’ personal research project
Computer science researcher and lecturer Chris Piech ’10 M.A. ’11 Ph.D. ’16, who currently teaches the introductory computer science course CS 106A: Programming Methodologies, has implemented a new...
View ArticleOffice of Technology Licensing Director Katharine Ku retires after 27 years...
Katharine Ku retired Thursday after 37 years of service in the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL). The OTL oversees the release of Stanford-based technologies “for society’s use and benefit while...
View ArticleMagnus on ethics in bioengineering research: ‘Society is…pushing science to...
David Magnus Ph.D. ’89 is the director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and the Co-chair of the Ethics Committee for the Stanford Hospital. The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics...
View ArticleAmid drone program controversy, students boycott Google internships
Student activist group the Stanford Solidarity Network (SSN) has released a petition calling on Google to pledge not to pursue any future contracts with the military, adding that until such a...
View ArticleCARTA use leads to lower grades, Stanford report finds
Using CARTA to plan class schedules lowers students’ grade point average (GPA), according to a paper published by a group of Stanford professors. Researchers divided students into two random groups....
View ArticleEditorial Board: Is MATH 51 everything you want from a Stanford education?
Stanford bills itself as giving its students one of the best educations in the world. While that may be true, it’s hard to feel that way when you’re, say, a freshman slogging through Math 51. Or Chem...
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