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Professor proposes blind analysis method to reduce bias in studies
(Courtesy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies) Stanford Law professor Robert MacCoun is endorsing a new scientific approach to minimize bias in studies: blind analysis, where...
View ArticleMOOCs less successful than original hopes, researchers say
Stanford researchers have concluded that MOOCs (massive open online courses) haven’t quite been the revolutionary change in education for which they had hoped. Completion rates are low, and classes can...
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New course aims to give students real-world research experience
Students comparing notes of their findings in the field. (Courtesy of Elena Cryst) A new pilot program aims to take students out of the classroom and into the field. After taking ECON 121: Social...
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Stanford researchers find more efficient way to drill for water
(Courtesy of Lisa Krueger/Bay Area News Group) With the increasing issue of the California drought, a Stanford-led project is using a new technique to detect underground water without having to reach...
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Research reveals new information about how aquatic animals move
Scientists have discovered that aquatic animals, unlike humans, create low pressure zones to pull themselves through the water. (Courtesy of Sean P. Colin) Stanford engineering professor John Dabiri...
View ArticleEconomic Policy Institute report compares students in the U.S., other countries
A report recently published by the Economic Policy Institute suggests that United States schools may not be trailing behind those of other countries as much as previous studies have suggested. The...
View ArticleStanford violates federal law requiring disclosure of clinical trial data
A recent STAT News investigation stated that Stanford has violated a federal law requiring the disclosure of applicable clinical trials and observational studies involving human subjects on...
View ArticleStanford geologists refute coal development theory
Two Stanford geologists are disputing the decade-old explanation of the large amount of coal accumulated during the Carboniferous Period. Associate Professor Kevin Boyce and Postdoctorate Research...
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Report ranks U.S. last on poverty and inequality
The United States ranks last among developed countries on issues of poverty and inequality, according to The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality’s third annual report. The report, released...
View ArticleStanford researchers add to Neanderthal debate
Two Stanford researchers are using mathematics to model the extinction of Neanderthals. Biology professor Marcus Feldman and Applied Physics Ph.D. student William Gilpin collaborated with Kenichi Aoki...
View ArticleResearchers to revisit drug trials for major viruses
Stanford scientists have relaunched research on a previously shelved category of drugs, known as broad-spectrum antiviral drugs, in the hope that it will reveal information about new strategies to...
View ArticleSURA holds annual research conference
The Stanford Undergraduate Research Association (SURA) held the annual Stanford Research Conference (SRC) last weekend to showcase undergraduate research from universities around the country. SURA is...
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Undergrad antibiotic treatment startup receives grant
(LINDA CICERO/Stanford News) Four undergraduate students looking to develop antibiotic treatments to multidrug-resistant bacteria recently received a $10,000 grant from Stanford’s chemistry,...
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Rare blood cancer responds to new treatment pioneered by Stanford physician
The majority of patients with systemic mastocytosis (SM), a rare blood cancer, are in need of an effective drug. Jason Gotlib M.D. ’95 M.S. ’03, associate professor of medicine, might have made a...
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Stanford Cancer Institute receives highest cancer center designation
The Stanford Cancer Institute (SCI) received recognition as a “comprehensive cancer center,” the highest cancer center designation, on July 1. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awards this...
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School of Medicine researchers create more affordable, efficient blood test
A team from Stanford University School of Medicine has created a more affordable, efficient blood test to combat growing antibiotic resistance by providing an easy method to discern between viral and...
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Stanford researchers use stem cells to create pure populations of human cell...
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered the combinations of biological and chemical signals needed to rapidly generate human cell types from human embryonic stem...
View ArticleResearch finds men self-cite more often than women
An interdisciplinary research team, led by Molly M. King, Ph.D. candidate in sociology, has found that men are more than twice as likely as women to cite themselves in any discipline. Self-citation...
View ArticleLaboratory for Cell and Gene Medicine opens in Palo Alto
Stanford’s Laboratory for Cell and Gene Medicine (LCGM), the university’s first manufacturing facility specifically designed to adhere to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) current good...
View ArticleNew SLAC research advances fight against Zika
In a new breakthrough in the ongoing fight against Zika virus, researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has determined how the structure of protein crystals produced by bacteria might be...
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