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

A beloved member of the university’s Chicano community, he also founded and directed the Stanford Center for Chicano Research.

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Portrait of Renato Rosaldo
Lorie Novak
Portrait of Isaac Sorkin

Isaac Sorkin awarded Sherwin Rosen Prize

Portrait of Takeshi Amemiya

Econometrician Takeshi Amemiya has died

Alvin Roth

What happens when markets collide with morality?

Portrait of Judith Fan in the Stanford arcade

Judith Fan awarded Gleitman Prize

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?

Adam Bonica named a 2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

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

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