Faculty The Monster in Your Path: The Private Life of Caste in India by Sharika Thiranagama, Anthropology Books in brief Faculty Social Sciences Stanford Science Fellows 2026 cohort announced Matthew D. Morrison wins Woody Guthrie, Irving Lowens book awards Hazel Rose Markus wins 2026 Sage-CASBS Award Diving into the mind of pioneering French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Biologist and environmentalist Paul Ehrlich has died The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck by Jessica Riskin, History Political scientist David Abernethy has died What does it mean to be reasonable? Being Reasonable: The Case for a Misunderstood Virtue by Krista Lawlor, Philosophy Thomas Mullaney named UNESCO chair Historian leads project to design new AI architecture for humanities research Go behind the science with Rodolfo Dirzo New book explores the tension that can exist between people of different identities—and how to overcome it Video content available for Initiative aims to help cities address migration Initiative aims to help cities address migration New report examines the failures of a Florida immigrant jail born of a federal–county partnership Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It by Claude Steele, Psychology A life-changing shift from neuroscience to cystic fibrosis research Tony Heinz wins 2026 Optica award Brain responses to wildlife images may motivate engagement with conservation efforts The Division of Rationalized Labor by Michelle Jackson, Sociology The Four Talent Giants by Gi-Wook Shin, Sociology Caroline Winterer receives 2026 Lyman award Carolyn Bertozzi named Royal Society of Chemistry Honorary Fellow Beloved podcast 'Philosophy Talk' now available for free John Chowning receives Technical Grammy New English courses fuse creativity with literary criticism Mathematical model calculates probability of shared ancestors for African Americans Light-based platform sets the stage for quantum supercomputers New chip-sized optical amplifier can intensify light 100 times Jonathan Gienapp wins Order of the Coif book award Fang Liu wins Scialog awards Barnabas Daru receives International Biogeography Society award Neurodiversity could be an essential consequence of human evolution Todd Smith, pioneer in the field of free-electron lasers, dies at 85 Advance could expand immune therapy as a cancer treatment Four things to know about ethnic studies in California high schools John R. Rickford receives lifetime service award Gerald Gillespie, devoted professor of German and comparative literature, dies at 92 Benjamin Good wins APS Early Career Award Autocrats vs. Democrats by Michael McFaul, Political Science Jonathan Luk receives American Mathematical Society award Stephen Hinton named Berlin Prize Fellow How artists can ‘interrupt’ artificial intelligence Historian chronicles one of the French Revolution’s most notorious figures Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror by Keith Baker, History Three H&S faculty become American Academy of Sciences and Letters members Jeff Wine receives honor from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Light causes atomic layers to do the twist Surya Ganguli named AI2050 Senior Fellow Judith Frydman awarded European Research Council Synergy Grant Fellowship program positions students to lead at intersection of public policy and technology New book sheds light on intelligence in humans and machines Exploring the Louvre heist with French culture expert Cécile Alduy Matthew Sommer awarded American Historical Association prize Christopher O. Barnes named HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar The Rising Sea by Ravi Vakil, Mathematics The Emergent Mind by Jay McClelland, Psychology Stanford inaugurates new home of MLK Institute The antidote to loneliness might be recognizing how much others care Ramón Saldívar receives MLA lifetime achievement award The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson, English Philip Roth: Stung by Life by Steven J. Zipperstein, History Brian Lantz named American Physical Society Fellow Capturing the brilliant, complicated life of Philip Roth Stanford Pulitzer winner’s new novel tells epic tale born from writing ‘every day for 10 years’ Bianxiao Cui receives NIH High-Risk, High-Reward grant Snow leopards’ low genetic diversity puts future at risk Unraveling the mystery of Jackson Pollock’s blue New undergraduate study options combine data science with humanities and arts H&S welcomes 26 new faculty members Photo by Misha Bruk for Stanford University King Institute embraces new home on Main Quad Joel Cabrita wins Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize H&S recognizes Paul Sniderman with inaugural faculty mentorship award Nicholas Bloom selected as 2025 Citation Laureate in Economics Philip Bucksbaum receives NSF/UKRI quantum chemistry award Classic recessive-or-dominant gene dynamics may not be so simple Richard Schoen wins World Laureates Association Prize Josiah Ober awarded 2025 Balzan Prize Nicholas Jenkins wins Northern California Book Award Art history professor’s new book brings overlooked female painter to young audiences Three reasons why universities are crucial for understanding AI Three things to know about the recently released MLK records Plant samples preserved in museums may hold key to greener future Blakey Vermeule named senior associate dean for the humanities and arts Duana Fullwiley wins C. Wright Mills book award Energy supplied by gut microbiome depends on diet Novel cancer-killing mechanism opens path to new treatments New tech for imaging brain waves could advance disease research, AI Research links 19th-century land program to sharp rise in Native American mortality Oceanic humanities project envisions new wave in education Foundational research on brain development may help prevent degeneration Stanford-led team shares honor for ‘revolutionizing’ the study of the universe’s high-energy phenomena Peter Michelson receives European Physical Society award John H. Flavell, distinguished and influential scholar of developmental psychology, has died A new tool for sizing up the US economy Seven faculty members awarded 2024-25 H&S dean's teaching awards Michael Friedman, who studied the connections between philosophy and science, has died Political scientist Robert Packenham has died Five things to do in virtual reality – and five to avoid Historian Gordon H. Chang reflects on his varied career with new book Mathematical Properties of Population-Genetic Statistics by Noah A. Rosenberg, Biology War, Race, and Culture by Gordon H. Chang, History Stanford historian's book on immigration wins PEN America nonfiction award Gut physics provides insights on your insides Nancy Huddleston Packer, award-winning writer who served as director of Creative Writing Program, has died Josiah Ober’s mission to revitalize democracy and civic education Common diversity argument linked to beliefs that maintain inequality New course showcases humanities, social science offerings for undergrads Stanford initiative seeks to bring more languages online Lerone A .Martin wins James W. C. Pennington Award Jonthan Rodden named 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow Stanford researchers honored with 2025 Breakthrough prizes Course offers personal perspectives on cystic fibrosis Science and tech need intersectional analysis for accuracy, scholars say James Ferguson, anthropologist devoted to studying international aid, has died Researchers identify gene linked to development of a critical coronary artery Stanford Science Fellows 2025 cohort is largest ever New book explores historical fiction’s role in the rise of Japanese nationalism before World War II Literature for the Masses by James Reichert, East Asian Languages and Cultures Gretchen Daily named American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow Study: Women take ‘substantial’ earnings hit during menopause Study examines trends tied to surge in health care jobs Lavinia’s Wondrous Portraits by Emanuele Lugli, Art and Art History Nicholas Jenkins wins Warren-Brooks Award ‘Microlightning’ in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth Mark Applebaum receives American Academy of Arts and Letters award Meet the frogs helping scientists answer fundamental questions in neuroscience and physiology You Got In! Now What? by James T. Hamilton, Communication William P. Mahrt, beloved scholar of early music, has died Guido W. Imbens named director of Stanford Data Science New antibodies show potential to neutralize virus that causes COVID-19 High-tech imaging center opens at Hopkins Marine Station Chang-rae Lee elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters Trithep Devakul named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow Barnabas Daru named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow New paper examines why COVID-19 mortality was higher in the U.S. than in some East Asian countries Mark Duggan receives Stanford's 2025 Roland volunteer service prize Kabir Peay elected to the American Academy of Microbiology Stanford historian’s documentary coming to PBS in March Leonard Susskind wins 2025 Galileo Medal Stanford physicist aims to create materials for next-generation superconductors Steven Block wins 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal New study could lead to development of more drought-resistant corn Four H&S scientists named 2025 PECASE winners Peter Sturrock, influential applied physics professor, has died Liqun Luo wins National Academy of Sciences neuroscience award Double duty: Powerful anticancer compound might also be the key to eradicating HIV Commemorating MLK’s 1967 speech at Stanford The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism by Jon Krosnick, Communication and Political Science Sundance Film Festival to feature five films connected to Stanford documentary program Early-career Stanford researchers honored for their cutting-edge studies in physics and social economics Susan Clark receives American Astronomical Society prize Margaret Cohen receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant AI brings new potential to the art of theater Terry Karl receives inaugural human rights award Benjamin Good receives inaugural biological physics prize Graciela Teresa de Pierris, historian of modern philosophy, dies at 74 New device produces critical fertilizer ingredient from thin air, cutting carbon emissions James Gross receives 2025 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology New book explores poet W.H. Auden’s life between two world wars New Center for Poetics ‘supports and encourages the vitality of the field’ For major US cities, the ‘donut effect’ persists Debra Satz awarded Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship Steven Chu receives inaugural lifetime achievement award Exotic quantum state of matter visualized for the first time Why cancel culture doesn’t exist The Milky Way represents an outlier among similar galaxies, universe survey data shows Q&A: Marcus Feldman on evolving evolution Arun Chandrasekhar wins 2024 Infosys Prize in Economics Vedika Khemani wins 2024 Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences Russell Poldrack receives 2024 KFJ Award Elizabeth Buchter Bernhardt-Kamil, longtime director of the Language Center, pioneering scholar, and beloved mentor, has died Historian Jonathan Gienapp challenges originalist interpretations of the Constitution New study shows that partisanship trumps truth Jeongwan Haah receives 2025 Quantum Computing Award Steven Kivelson receives 2025 American Physical Society prize Risa Wechsler and Susan Clark and KIPAC team awarded $5M to study the Milky Way Dafna Zur receives Korean Order of Culture Merit A ‘deep time revolution’ paved the way to American modernity, Stanford historian asserts Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity by Marcus Feldman, Biology Adrien Bilal receives 2024 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs Steven Chu elected inaugural fellow of Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering Debunking the evidence for election fraud cases How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America by Caroline Winterer, History Stanford art historian uncovers portrait linked to famed female Renaissance painter H&S welcomes 19 new faculty members Two beers, a pandemic, and a workplace revolution Christopher O. Barnes receives Biophysical Society early career award Jay McClelland receives 2024 Golden Goose Award Creating a culture of civic engagement The Cancel Culture Panic by Adrian Daub, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Against Constitutional Originalism by Jonathan Gienapp, History For writer Molly Antopol, silences create room for fiction Can global supply chains be fixed? Sleep experts share strategies to minimize jet lag’s effects on college athlete performance and health Study uncovers unique patterns of native vascular plant diversity Rachel Jean-Baptiste receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant Tony Heinz receives national award from the American Chemical Society Stanford participates in pathway to college for military vets Philosopher Wendy Salkin tackles the ethics of speaking for others Finding hope in a cynical world Monika Schleier-Smith named 2024 Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator Asad L. Asad receives 2023 C. Wright Mills Award New mass spectrometry method could advance multiple fields For poet Aracelis Girmay, poetry is a way of thinking through complexity Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism by Ariel Evan Mayse, Religious Studies A World Made by Travel: The Digital Grand Tour by Giovanna Ceserani, Classics Eve Clark named 2024 British Academy fellow Philip Morris made cigarettes at Auschwitz in the 1990s The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England by Nicholas Jenkins, English Kathryn Olivarius receives 2024 Dan David Prize Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation by Wendy Salkin, Philosophy Marcus Feldman receives lifetime achievement award from the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution Tapping interdependent motivation shrinks racial achievement gaps in schools Alice Rayner, beloved theater professor, dies at 76 Grant Rotskoff wins 2024 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award Paul Wender wins Royal Society of Chemistry prize The versatility of statistics and data science across majors Andrei Linde awarded 2024 Isaac Pomeranchuk Prize Renata Kallosh to receive 2024 Oskar Klein medal The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age by Thomas Mullaney, History Seven faculty members awarded 2023-24 H&S dean's teaching awards 80,000-plus characters, one keyboard: China’s fight to join the digital age Shelley Correll elected American Sociological Association president Load more news
