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Stanford launches new data science major

New School of Humanities and Sciences major offers two degrees—a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts—to provide undergraduates the flexibility to explore their interests across disciplines.

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$4M awarded to 8 impact labs to combat social ills

Political consensus through empathy

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New lab will investigate partisan animosity, with goal of diminishing it

Synthetic genetic circuits could help plants adapt to climate change

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Three Stanford faculty members elected to the British Academy

Using economics to understand the wide-reaching impacts of overturning Roe v. Wade

Brexit was 10,000 years in the making, Stanford historian says in new book

Roger Shepard, pioneer in research on mental imagery, dies at 93