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A new graduate student initiative is combating misinformation around science by helping Stanford students and postdocs improve their communication skills.

The Royal Society cited Tibshirani’s invention of the “Lasso” and other statistical tools for his election.

The political landscape has changed, potentially opening a window for meaningful policies to combat global warming. Stanford experts discuss opportunities and prospects for change.

The Stanford faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies, are scholars in the fields of performing arts, economics, law and mathematics.

A new approach at Stanford's Center for Ocean Solutions combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional remotely sensed seascape models to more accurately identify complex reef structures and the populations of fish living within them.

Development economist Pascaline Dupas has been awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Eva Borgwardt, whose academic and public service work has focused on Jewish-Palestinian relations, hopes to use the Truman Scholarship to pursue a joint degree program in law and global affairs.

Five scholars with Stanford affiliations have won Soros Fellowships, which provide financial support for graduate study at any U.S. university. Soros Fellows are either immigrants or the children of immigrants and are selected based on merit.

In the course CS 181: Computers, Ethics and Public Policy, Stanford students become computer programmers, policymakers and philosophers to examine the ethical and social impacts of technological innovation.