Researchers 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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