Faculty

Can AI be slowed down?

Stanford AI experts weigh the risks, rules and race ahead

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Shelley Fisher Fishkin wins Glasscock Book Prize

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Researchers observe first real-time quantum jump in sound

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James Gross wins lifetime achievement award

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Physics advance could improve how AI remembers and learns

Portrait of Laura Dassama in the Stanford arcade.

Laura Dassama wins Shaw Award

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Worm’s radical transformation shows metamorphosis can change the functions of cells

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Michael McFaul wins 2026 Humphrey Award

Three dark male silhouettes with tech symbols overlaid on them

New book takes on the dominance of Silicon Valley billionaires

Potential language-specific brain network identified

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New book reflects artists’ perspectives on 1992 Los Angeles riots

Cover of the book Unrest and a portrait of its author, Rose Salseda

Unrest: Art in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots by Rose Salseda, Art and Art History

Cover of the book What Tech Calls Governing and a portrait of its author, Adrian Daub

What Tech Calls Governing by Adrian Daub, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

Portrait of Hans Andersen

Hans Andersen, pioneer in the study of liquids and other materials, has died at 84

Portrait of Chang-rae Lee

English professor Chang-rae Lee authors his most personal work yet

A beach scene with waves that have a glowing luminescent blue edge

New pathway found to make luminescence

Book cover of A Tender Age and a portrait of its author, Chang-rae Lee

A Tender Age: A Novel by Chang-rae Lee, English

A photo of a young school boy sitting on a bench with his head in his hands.

How children talk can indicate risk for future mental health problems

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Herbert Clark receives Rumelhart Prize

An index finger hovers above an all-green key bearing a dollar sign that is part of an otherwise white keyboard

Lower-skilled workers could earn more in an AI world

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Rose Salseda named 2026 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader

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Pollution linked to fish hybrids in Mexican river

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Isaac Sorkin awarded Sherwin Rosen Prize

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Renato Rosaldo, cultural anthropologist with a poet’s heart, dies at 85

Portrait of Takeshi Amemiya

Econometrician Takeshi Amemiya has died

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Researchers uncover evidence for sibling supernovas

Mountain lions have major ecological impact in small preserve

Portrait of Edmonia Lewis

Book looks at resurgence of late-19th-century female sculptor

Stanford Campus

H&S community earns 3 Dinkelspiel, 5 Gores awards

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Emmanuel Candès wins Shaw Prize in math

Stanford Campus

H&S announces 2025-26 Dean's Teaching Award winners

Ornithology class brings students face to face with ‘neodinosaurs’

Research reveals mechanisms for plant cell resilience to stress

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Zhi-Xun Shen elected to Royal Society

Cover of the book Moving Stones and portrait of its author Jennifer DeVere Brody

Moving Stones: About the Art of Edmonia Lewis by Jennifer DeVere Brody, Theater and Performance Studies

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3 earn Phi Beta Kappa teaching honor

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Londa Schiebinger receives Harvard Centennial Medal

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Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers by Michel Digonnet, Applied Physics

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Dagfinn Føllesdal, philosopher known as a ‘builder of bridges,’ dies at 93

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Laura Dassama wins ACS Early Career Award

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Global plant diversity evolved mostly from staying in place, not dispersing

Alvin Roth

What happens when markets collide with morality?

Portrait of Judith Fan in the Stanford arcade

Judith Fan awarded Gleitman Prize

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Moral Economics by Alvin E. Roth, Economics

Rising gas prices, explained

Fingers on the track pad of a laptop in a dark room

Is that political post real—or a money-making scam?

Portrait of Lerone Martin next to the cover of his book Young King featuring a portrait of MLK as a child

Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr. by Lerone Martin, Religious Studies and African and African American Studies

A student holds a phone underneath a desk to sneak a look at it.

National study of school cellphone bans shows benefits are not immediate

Portrait of Jessica Riskin in the Stanford arcade

Jessica Riskin elected to American Philosophical Society

Portrait of Rachel Jean-Baptiste

Bringing global histories of gender, race, and citizenship to the AI age

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A tiny succession battle under an oak tree reveals ecological patterns

A black-and-white photo of three young black children sitting on a bench

New book illuminates Martin Luther King, Jr.’s childhood

A portrait of Grant Rotskoff in the Stanford arcade

Grant Rotskoff named Camille Dreyfus Teacher–Scholar

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Stanford mathematician Otis Chodosh wins New Horizons Prize

Aracelis Girmay stands a lectern on a stage

Aracelis Girmay wins PEN America poetry prize

Portrait of Jorge Ruffinelli

Jorge Ruffinelli, leading scholar of Latin American literature and film, dies at 82

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Jonathan Luk tackles the mathematics of black holes

Four H&S scholars named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows

In this history class, the final project is a pop song

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Laura Dassama honored with Protein Science Young Investigator Award

Adrien Bilal in the Stanford arcade

Adrien Bilal receives 2026 Best Young Economist Prize

Sharika Thiranagama with cover of The Monster in Your Path

The Monster in Your Path: The Private Life of Caste in India by Sharika Thiranagama, Anthropology

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Stanford Science Fellows 2026 cohort announced

Matthew Morrison in the Stanford arcade

Matthew D. Morrison wins Woody Guthrie, Irving Lowens book awards

Hazel Markus in the Stanford arcade

Hazel Rose Markus wins 2026 Sage-CASBS Award

Jessica Riskin in the Stanford arcade

Diving into the mind of pioneering French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Paul R. Ehrlich standing in front of trees

Biologist and environmentalist Paul Ehrlich has died

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The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck by Jessica Riskin, History

David Abernethy speaks to Faculty Senate

Political scientist David Abernethy has died

What does it mean to be reasonable?

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Being Reasonable: The Case for a Misunderstood Virtue by Krista Lawlor, Philosophy

Thomas Mullaney named UNESCO chair

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Historian leads project to design new AI architecture for humanities research

Go behind the science with Rodolfo Dirzo

Claude Steele in his office

New book explores the tension that can exist between people of different identities—and how to overcome it

Tomás Jimenéz speaks at the launch of the institute’s Flourishing Cities Initiative.

Initiative aims to help cities address migration

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New report examines the failures of a Florida immigrant jail born of a federal–county partnership

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Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It by Claude Steele, Psychology

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A life-changing shift from neuroscience to cystic fibrosis research

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Tony Heinz wins 2026 Optica award

Portrait of Brian Knutson

Brain responses to wildlife images may motivate engagement with conservation efforts

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The Division of Rationalized Labor by Michelle Jackson, Sociology

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The Four Talent Giants by Gi-Wook Shin, Sociology

Caroline Winterer

Caroline Winterer receives 2026 Lyman award

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Carolyn Bertozzi named Royal Society of Chemistry Honorary Fellow

From left: Ray Briggs, Julian Jara-Ettinger, and Joshua Landy talk

Beloved podcast 'Philosophy Talk' now available for free

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John Chowning receives Technical Grammy

Two seated students look intensely at a speaker as they perform Richard III

New English courses fuse creativity with literary criticism

An illustration of a family tree

Mathematical model calculates probability of shared ancestors for African Americans

Jon Simon with the cavity array microscope

Light-based platform sets the stage for quantum supercomputers

Close up of an optical amplifier chip, similar to the one detailed in the new study, that is being developed in the lab of Stanford physicist Amir Safavi-Naeini. A red laser light shines from an optical fiber on the left to help with aligning the fiber to the chip.

New chip-sized optical amplifier can intensify light 100 times

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Jonathan Gienapp wins Order of the Coif book award

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Fang Liu wins Scialog awards

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Barnabas Daru receives International Biogeography Society award

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Neurodiversity could be an essential consequence of human evolution

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Todd Smith, pioneer in the field of free-electron lasers, dies at 85

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Advance could expand immune therapy as a cancer treatment

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Four things to know about ethnic studies in California high schools

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John R. Rickford receives lifetime service award

Portrait of Gerald Gillespie

Gerald Gillespie, devoted professor of German and comparative literature, dies at 92

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Benjamin Good wins APS Early Career Award

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Autocrats vs. Democrats by Michael McFaul, Political Science

Portrait of Jonathan Luk

Jonathan Luk receives American Mathematical Society award

Portrait of Stephen Hinton

Stephen Hinton named Berlin Prize Fellow

Morehshin Allayari in her Stanford studio

How artists can ‘interrupt’ artificial intelligence

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité engraved between two columns

Historian chronicles one of the French Revolution’s most notorious figures

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Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror by Keith Baker, History

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Three H&S faculty become American Academy of Sciences and Letters members

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Jeff Wine receives honor from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Portrait of Fang Liu holding a 3D model of the Moire Lattice

Light causes atomic layers to do the twist

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Surya Ganguli named AI2050 Senior Fellow

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Judith Frydman awarded European Research Council Synergy Grant

The Tech Ethics and Policy Fellows pose for a photo together

Fellowship program positions students to lead at intersection of public policy and technology

Jay McClelland and Gaurav Suri

New book sheds light on intelligence in humans and machines

Exploring the Louvre heist with French culture expert Cécile Alduy

Matthew Sommer wearing a light-blue collared shirt standing under one of arcades on Stanford's Main Quad

Matthew Sommer awarded American Historical Association prize

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Christopher O. Barnes named HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

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The Rising Sea by Ravi Vakil, Mathematics

Collage of Jay McClelland and the cover of the Emergent Mind

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

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Ramón Saldívar receives MLA lifetime achievement award

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The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson, English

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Philip Roth: Stung by Life by Steven J. Zipperstein, History

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Brian Lantz named American Physical Society Fellow

Photo of Philip Roth book collection

Capturing the brilliant, complicated life of Philip Roth

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Stanford Pulitzer winner’s new novel tells epic tale born from writing ‘every day for 10 years’

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Bianxiao Cui receives NIH High-Risk, High-Reward grant

A snow leopard crouches on a rocky mountainside

Snow leopards’ low genetic diversity puts future at risk

Unraveling the mystery of Jackson Pollock’s blue

Student stands in front of the interactive screen in the Rumsey Map Center

New undergraduate study options combine data science with humanities and arts

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H&S welcomes 26 new faculty members

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King Institute embraces new home on Main Quad

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Joel Cabrita wins Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize

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H&S recognizes Paul Sniderman with inaugural faculty mentorship award

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Nicholas Bloom selected as 2025 Citation Laureate in Economics

Portrait of Philip Bucksbaum

Philip Bucksbaum receives NSF/UKRI quantum chemistry award

A close-up photograph of a fruit fly resting on a green stem

Classic recessive-or-dominant gene dynamics may not be so simple

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Richard Schoen wins World Laureates Association Prize

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Josiah Ober awarded 2025 Balzan Prize

Nicholas Jenkins wins Northern California Book Award

Interior page of Lavinia's Wondrous Portraits

Art history professor’s new book brings overlooked female painter to young audiences

Neural networks and artificial intelligence conceptual abstract background.

Three reasons why universities are crucial for understanding AI

MLK Jr. surrounded by microphones. Atlanta, GA, 1966: Alabama candidate press conference

Three things to know about the recently released MLK records

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Plant samples preserved in museums may hold key to greener future

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Blakey Vermeule named senior associate dean for the humanities and arts

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Duana Fullwiley wins C. Wright Mills book award

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Energy supplied by gut microbiome depends on diet

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Novel cancer-killing mechanism opens path to new treatments

Portrait of Mark Schnitzer

New tech for imaging brain waves could advance disease research, AI

A group of Native American women

Research links 19th-century land program to sharp rise in Native American mortality

A student lifts a rock in a tide pool to see what is beneath

Oceanic humanities project envisions new wave in education

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Foundational research on brain development may help prevent degeneration

A view of gamma ray radiation present in the Milky Way

Stanford-led team shares honor for ‘revolutionizing’ the study of the universe’s high-energy phenomena

Peter Michelson receives European Physical Society award

Portrait of John Flavell

John H. Flavell, distinguished and influential scholar of developmental psychology, has died

Portrait of Neale Mahoney

A new tool for sizing up the US economy

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Seven faculty members awarded 2024-25 H&S dean's teaching awards

A portrait of Michael Friedman

Michael Friedman, who studied the connections between philosophy and science, has died

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Political scientist Robert Packenham has died

Five things to do in virtual reality – and five to avoid

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Historian Gordon H. Chang reflects on his varied career with new book

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Mathematical Properties of Population-Genetic Statistics by Noah A. Rosenberg, Biology

Collage of Gordon H. Chang and the cover of his book

War, Race, and Culture by Gordon H. Chang, History

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Stanford historian's book on immigration wins PEN America nonfiction award

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Gut physics provides insights on your insides

Nancy Packer speaks at the memorial for former Stanford President Richard W. Lyman in 2012.

Nancy Huddleston Packer, award-winning writer who served as director of Creative Writing Program, has died

Portrait of Josiah Ober

Josiah Ober’s mission to revitalize democracy and civic education

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Common diversity argument linked to beliefs that maintain inequality

Judith Richardson answers a question from a student (facing away) who has their hand raised

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

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Jonthan Rodden named 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

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Stanford researchers honored with 2025 Breakthrough prizes

A young woman holds out her arm for a gloved medical professional to swab it for a sweat test.

Course offers personal perspectives on cystic fibrosis

Portrait of Londa Schiebinger

Science and tech need intersectional analysis for accuracy, scholars say

Portrait of James Ferguson

James Ferguson, anthropologist devoted to studying international aid, has died

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Researchers identify gene linked to development of a critical coronary artery

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Stanford Science Fellows 2025 cohort is largest ever

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New book explores historical fiction’s role in the rise of Japanese nationalism before World War II

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Literature for the Masses by James Reichert, East Asian Languages and Cultures

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Gretchen Daily named American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow

Portrait of Petra Persson

Study: Women take ‘substantial’ earnings hit during menopause

Portrait of Neale Mahoney

Study examines trends tied to surge in health care jobs

Collage of Emanuele Lugli and the cover of Lavinia's Wondrous Portraits

Lavinia’s Wondrous Portraits by Emanuele Lugli, Art and Art History

Portrait of Nicholas Jenkins

Nicholas Jenkins wins Warren-Brooks Award

An ocean wave crashes against a rock

‘Microlightning’ in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth

Portrait of Mark Applebaum

Mark Applebaum receives American Academy of Arts and Letters award

A black frog with yellow and blue patterning

Meet the frogs helping scientists answer fundamental questions in neuroscience and physiology

Jay Hamilton with the cover of his book

You Got In! Now What? by James T. Hamilton, Communication

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William P. Mahrt, beloved scholar of early music, has died

Portrait of Guido Imbens

Guido W. Imbens named director of Stanford Data Science

Illustration of the COVID-19 virus

New antibodies show potential to neutralize virus that causes COVID-19

Life science researcher Peter Nilsson adjusts one of the new confocal microscopes in the imaging center at Hopkins Marine Station. An image of a juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata) is displayed on the screen behind him.

High-tech imaging center opens at Hopkins Marine Station

Portrait of Chang-rae Lee

Chang-rae Lee elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

Trithep Devakul named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

Portrait of Barnabas Daru

Barnabas Daru named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

A busy crowd in Times Square, New York, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic with a varying degree of masking

New paper examines why COVID-19 mortality was higher in the U.S. than in some East Asian countries

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Mark Duggan receives Stanford's 2025 Roland volunteer service prize

Kabir Peay elected to the American Academy of Microbiology

A group of five people sing and laugh together

Stanford historian’s documentary coming to PBS in March

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Leonard Susskind wins 2025 Galileo Medal

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Stanford physicist aims to create materials for next-generation superconductors

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Steven Block wins 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal

Researchers Johannes Scharwies and José Dinneny stand in front of corn plants grown to study root responses to moisture at the Stanford Greenhouse Facility.

New study could lead to development of more drought-resistant corn

Four H&S scientists named 2025 PECASE winners

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Peter Sturrock, influential applied physics professor, has died

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Liqun Luo wins National Academy of Sciences neuroscience award

A female and a male scientist wearing gloves, safety glasses, and blue lab coats work with large pipettes at a lab table

Double duty: Powerful anticancer compound might also be the key to eradicating HIV

Commemorating MLK’s 1967 speech at Stanford

Portrait of Jon Krosnick and book cover

The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism by Jon Krosnick, Communication and Political Science

Still from Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune by Dominic Yarabe

Sundance Film Festival to feature five films connected to Stanford documentary program

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Early-career Stanford researchers honored for their cutting-edge studies in physics and social economics

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Susan Clark receives American Astronomical Society prize

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Margaret Cohen receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant

AI brings new potential to the art of theater

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Terry Karl receives inaugural human rights award

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Benjamin Good receives inaugural biological physics prize

Portrait of Graciela De Pierris

Graciela Teresa de Pierris, historian of modern philosophy, dies at 74

Photo of Richard Zare in a yellow-button down shirt and yellow tie

New device produces critical fertilizer ingredient from thin air, cutting carbon emissions

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James Gross receives 2025 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology

Portrait of Nicholas Jenkins

New book explores poet W.H. Auden’s life between two world wars

An old book showing poetry

New Center for Poetics ‘supports and encourages the vitality of the field’

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For major US cities, the ‘donut effect’ persists

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Debra Satz awarded Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship

Portrait of Steven Chu

Steven Chu receives inaugural lifetime achievement award

Fractional Chern insulator visualization

Exotic quantum state of matter visualized for the first time

Portrait of Adrian Daub

Why cancel culture doesn’t exist

A mosaic of the images of 378 satellites across 101 Milky Way-like systems that the SAGA team has surveyed. The satellite images are sorted by their luminosity from left to right.

The Milky Way represents an outlier among similar galaxies, universe survey data shows

Portrait of Marcus Feldman

Q&A: Marcus Feldman on evolving evolution

Portrait of Arun Chandrasekhar

Arun Chandrasekhar wins 2024 Infosys Prize in Economics

Vedika Khemani wins 2024 Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences

Russell Poldrack

Russell Poldrack receives 2024 KFJ Award

Elizabeth Bernhardt-Kamil

Elizabeth Buchter Bernhardt-Kamil, longtime director of the Language Center, pioneering scholar, and beloved mentor, has died

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Historian Jonathan Gienapp challenges originalist interpretations of the Constitution

Portrait collage of Michael Schwalbe and Geoff Cohen

New study shows that partisanship trumps truth

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Jeongwan Haah receives 2025 Quantum Computing Award

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Steven Kivelson receives 2025 American Physical Society prize

Collage of Risa Wechsler and Susan Clark

Risa Wechsler and Susan Clark and KIPAC team awarded $5M to study the Milky Way

Photo of Dafna Zur

Dafna Zur receives Korean Order of Culture Merit

Photo of Caroline Winterer

A ‘deep time revolution’ paved the way to American modernity, Stanford historian asserts

Portrait of Marcus Feldman with cover of Evolution Evolving

Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity by Marcus Feldman, Biology

Photo of Adrien Bilal

Adrien Bilal receives 2024 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs

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Steven Chu elected inaugural fellow of Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering

Portrait of Justin Grimmer

Debunking the evidence for election fraud cases

Photo of Caroline Winterer and cover of How the New World Became Old

How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America by Caroline Winterer, History

Photo of Emanuele Lugli

Stanford art historian uncovers portrait linked to famed female Renaissance painter

Photo of Memorial Court

H&S welcomes 19 new faculty members

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Two beers, a pandemic, and a workplace revolution

Portrait of Christopher Barnes

Christopher O. Barnes receives Biophysical Society early career award

Portrait of Jay McClelland

Jay McClelland receives 2024 Golden Goose Award

Creating a culture of civic engagement

Collage of The Cancel Culture Panic cover and a photo of Adrian Daub

The Cancel Culture Panic by Adrian Daub, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

Cover of Against Constitutional Originalism and photo of Jonathan Gienapp

Against Constitutional Originalism by Jonathan Gienapp, History

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For writer Molly Antopol, silences create room for fiction

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Can global supply chains be fixed?

Image of hand on top of alarm clock

Sleep experts share strategies to minimize jet lag’s effects on college athlete performance and health

Mosaic scrub savanna woodland on the highlands of Chappal Hendu in Gashaka Gumti-National Park in West Africa.

Study uncovers unique patterns of native vascular plant diversity

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Rachel Jean-Baptiste receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant

Tony Heinz receives national award from the American Chemical Society

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Stanford participates in pathway to college for military vets

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Philosopher Wendy Salkin tackles the ethics of speaking for others

Finding hope in a cynical world

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Monika Schleier-Smith named 2024 Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator

Image of Asad L. Asad

Asad L. Asad receives 2023 C. Wright Mills Award

Illustration showing the chemical structure of the peptide oxytocin

New mass spectrometry method could advance multiple fields

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For poet Aracelis Girmay, poetry is a way of thinking through complexity

Image of the cover of the book Laws of the Spirit next to an image of its author, Arial Mayse

Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism by Ariel Evan Mayse, Religious Studies

Image of Giovanna Ceserani next to an image of the cover of her book A World Made by Travel

A World Made by Travel: The Digital Grand Tour by Giovanna Ceserani, Classics

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Eve Clark named 2024 British Academy fellow

Three packets of European cigarettes sitting upright on a table

Philip Morris made cigarettes at Auschwitz in the 1990s

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The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England by Nicholas Jenkins, English

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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

Image of a wreath with paper feathers on it. The paper feathers have writing on them that represent the values that each student's family cherishes.

Tapping interdependent motivation shrinks racial achievement gaps in schools

Image of Alice Rayner standing in front of a large tree.

Alice Rayner, beloved theater professor, dies at 76

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Grant Rotskoff wins 2024 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award

Image of Paul Wender

Paul Wender wins Royal Society of Chemistry prize

Statistician Dennis Sun stands in front of sandstone pillars and wall

The versatility of statistics and data science across majors

Andrei Linde awarded 2024 Isaac Pomeranchuk Prize

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Renata Kallosh to receive 2024 Oskar Klein medal

The cover of the book The Chinese Computer alongside a photo of its author, Thomas Mullaney

The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age by Thomas Mullaney, History

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Seven faculty members awarded 2023-24 H&S dean's teaching awards

Three 1980s computer screens display Chinese characters

80,000-plus characters, one keyboard: China’s fight to join the digital age

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Shelley Correll elected American Sociological Association president

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Wendy Salkin honored with Phi Beta Kappa teaching excellence award

Image of AARCS co-founders: (pictured left to right) Jeanne Tsai, Gordon H. Chang, and Stephen Sano

New Asian American Research Center launches in Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences

Image of UFM1 E3 ligase

Enzyme discovery helps unravel decades-old ribosome mystery

Ben Feldman and Ben Foutty

A ‘magic’ angle between layers in a stacked nanoscale system offers intriguing material properties

Envisioning the future for Palestinians and Israelis

Angela Garcia stands with arms crossed wearing a black sweater with her dark hair pulled back in a pony tail

Survival is success in Mexico City’s underground rehab centers

The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos by Angela Garcia, Anthropology

Seven faculty elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Richard Meyer stands with his arms crossed wearing a mauve blazer over a dark purple shirt.

Richard Meyer receives 2023 Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award

Arthur Barnes

Stanford music professor Arthur P. Barnes dies at 93

Stanford faculty named AAAS Fellows

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In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States by Ana Raquel Minian, History

Two Stanford scholars awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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Joel Cabrita receives National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences book award

Image of Rachel Jean-Baptiste

Rachel Jean-Baptiste awarded 2024 David H. Pinkney Prize

Learning the history of evolution and primatology

Joe Berger

Stanford sociology professor Joseph Berger has died

Norman Wessells in Montana

Norman K. Wessells, pioneering Stanford biologist, has died

Collage of the cover of Tabula Raza and Duana Fullwiley portrait

Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science by Duana Fullwiley, Anthropology

Marina Johnson and Ava Jeffs stand under the arcades along Stanford's Main Quad

Students will explore Taylor Swift’s lyrics as literature in new course

Marjorie Perloff standing in a black suit

Poetry scholar and critic Marjorie Perloff has died

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Steven Boxer receives 2024 Ellis R. Lippincott Award

Kenneth Fields wearing glasses and wide-brimmed hat

Kenneth Fields, longtime English professor and acclaimed poet, dies at 84

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Yakov Eliashberg receives 2024 Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Low-power, high-precision measurement tool could boost tech

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Stanford anthropologist George Collier has died

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Study finds ChatGPT’s latest bot behaves like humans, only better

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The Patriarchal Political Order: The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India by Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Political Science

Rodolfo Dirzo stands in a field site in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Rodolfo Dirzo receives 2024 Frontiers of Knowledge Award

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Measuring in the Renaissance by Emanuele Lugli, Art and Art History

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Latino mental health is affected by immigration controversies, study finds

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Kurt Weills Musiktheater: Vom Songspiel zur American Opera by Stephen Hinton, Music

Images of Giorgio Gratta and Jason Hogan

Two Stanford physicists win grants for ‘tabletop’ experiments with big implications

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The Devil Prefers Mozart: On Music and Musicians, 1962-1993 by Anthony Burgess; edited by Paul Phillips, Music

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Martha Cyert named a fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Stanford study reveals mechanisms behind how growing cells maintain their mojo by scaling up biosynthesis

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New study reveals genes that ‘don’t play well together’ in swordtail fish hybrids, driving the development of distinct species

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns, History

Ato Quayson, wearing a royal-blue blazer and a yellow-gold scarf, leans against a pillar

New Department of African and African American Studies marks historic moment at Stanford

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Stanford’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute celebrates the MLK holiday

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2023: A year of books written by H&S faculty

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Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak by Michael J. Boskin, Economics and The Hoover Institution

The cover of the book Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa with a black-and-white photo of French African people next to a photo of Rachel Jean-Baptiste wearing glasses and smiling

Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship by Rachel Jean-Baptiste, History and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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The Ecology of Collective Behavior by Deborah M. Gordon, Biology

Photo of Jean-Pierre Dupuy and the cover of the book The War That Must Not Occur, which shows the book's title in white type on a black background

The War That Must Not Occur by Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

Peter Stansky wins 2023 Peter Davison Award

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Study reveals how cultural factors influence chess move choice

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Rigorous research practices improve scientific replication

Cover of the book Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures showing a Black man bent at the waist using a pickax to mine a rocky area.

Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures by Gabrielle Hecht, History

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Josiah Ober receives 2023 Barry Prize

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H&S welcomes 21 new faculty members

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Clayborne Carson honored with 2023 Freedom Award

Photo of the three co-creators of the medical humanities minor: Tanya Luhrmann wearing glasses and a blue blouse; Audrey Shafer wearing glasses and a black blazer over a dark purple shirt; and Lara Wittman wearing a black blouse with a pink silk scarf draped over her shoulders

Stanford introduces medical humanities minor

Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky, Biology

Study reveals location of starfish’s head

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Shelley Fisher Fishkin receives 2023 American Studies Association lifetime achievement award

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Surya Ganguli named to 2023 Schmidt Science Polymaths Program cohort

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Physicist Harold Hwang wins McGroddy Prize for New Materials

Kathryn Olivarius awarded AHA Prize in American History

Steven Boxer wearing a blue polo shirt, Zhe Ji wearing a black collared shirt and a tan tie, and Chu Zheng wearing glasses and a navy-blue collared shirt.

Stanford study shows how modifying enzymes’ electric fields boosts their speed

An artistic representation of how measurements can fundamentally change the structure of quantum information in space-time. In this illustration, rectangles represent qubits in a quantum system where the colors purple, orange, turquoise, and dark blue with glowing lines and half-dial symbols represent quantum information phases and various quantum properties.

Quantum measurements induce new phases of entanglement

Louise Glück

Remembering Louise Glück

Kristy Red-Horse wearing a light-blue blouse and standing with arms crossed under one of the arcades along Stanford's Main Quad

Kristy Red-Horse elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Headshots of Brian Conrad and Rafe Mazzeo. Conrad is in front of a blackboard with math figures on it. Mazzeo is front of the sandstone columns along Stanford's Main Quad.

Q&A: Math faculty discuss restructuring intro courses and supporting student success

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Steven Banik named 2023 Moore Inventor Fellow

The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives co-authored by Josiah Ober, Political Science and Classics

Hemamala Karunadasa wearing a navy-blue blouse with a white geometric pattern and Kurt Lindquist wearing a button-down purple plaid shirt

Striking rare gold: Stanford researchers unveil new material infused with gold in an exotic chemical state