Research reveals mechanisms for plant cell resilience to stress

Biologists have identified molecular anchors that secure plant cell membranes to their walls during water loss, providing insights for developing drought-resistant crops.

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June 17, 2026

Mountain lions have major ecological impact in small preserve

A Stanford study found that mountain lion visits to Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve triggered cascading effects on deer, smaller predators, and vegetation.

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June 10, 2026

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

Moving Stones by Stanford professor Jennifer DeVere Brody explores the multifaceted life, and legacy, of Edmonia Lewis, a Black and Indigenous woman who defied the restrictions of the post-Civil War era to achieve success as...

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June 4, 2026

Emmanuel Candès wins Shaw Prize in math

Revealing that complex, high-resolution results can be extracted from sparse data, Candès’ work has revolutionized information processing and brought benefits to everyday life.

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June 25, 2026

Isaac Sorkin awarded Sherwin Rosen Prize

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June 25, 2026

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

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June 24, 2026

Econometrician Takeshi Amemiya has died

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June 18, 2026

Researchers uncover evidence for sibling supernovas

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June 5, 2026

H&S community earns 3 Dinkelspiel, 5 Gores awards

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June 3, 2026

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

June 2, 2026

Ornithology class brings students face to face with ‘neodinosaurs’

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June 2, 2026

Zhi-Xun Shen elected to Royal Society

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May 28, 2026

3 earn Phi Beta Kappa teaching honor

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May 27, 2026

Londa Schiebinger receives Harvard Centennial Medal

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May 27, 2026

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

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May 26, 2026

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

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May 22, 2026

Laura Dassama wins ACS Early Career Award

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May 21, 2026

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

Alvin Roth
May 20, 2026

What happens when markets collide with morality?

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May 14, 2026

Judith Fan awarded Gleitman Prize

May 12, 2026

Rising gas prices, explained

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May 6, 2026

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

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May 4, 2026

National study of school cellphone bans shows benefits are not immediate

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May 1, 2026

Jessica Riskin elected to American Philosophical Society

Portrait of Rachel Jean-Baptiste
May 1, 2026

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

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May 1, 2026

A tiny succession battle under an oak tree reveals ecological patterns

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April 30, 2026

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

A portrait of Grant Rotskoff in the Stanford arcade
April 29, 2026

Grant Rotskoff named Camille Dreyfus Teacher–Scholar

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April 27, 2026

Stanford mathematician Otis Chodosh wins New Horizons Prize

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April 23, 2026

Aracelis Girmay wins PEN America poetry prize

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April 20, 2026

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

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April 20, 2026

Jonathan Luk tackles the mathematics of black holes

April 15, 2026

Four H&S scholars named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows

April 15, 2026

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

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April 14, 2026

Laura Dassama honored with Protein Science Young Investigator Award

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April 8, 2026

Adrien Bilal receives 2026 Best Young Economist Prize

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April 6, 2026

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

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March 27, 2026

Stanford Science Fellows 2026 cohort announced

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March 25, 2026

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

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March 24, 2026

Hazel Rose Markus wins 2026 Sage-CASBS Award

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March 23, 2026

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

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March 20, 2026

Biologist and environmentalist Paul Ehrlich has died

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March 18, 2026

Political scientist David Abernethy has died

March 17, 2026

What does it mean to be reasonable?

Thomas Mullaney
March 13, 2026

Thomas Mullaney named UNESCO chair

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March 6, 2026

Historian leads project to design new AI architecture for humanities research

March 5, 2026

Go behind the science with Rodolfo Dirzo

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March 5, 2026

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

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March 5, 2026

Initiative aims to help cities address migration

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March 3, 2026

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

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February 27, 2026

A life-changing shift from neuroscience to cystic fibrosis research

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February 25, 2026

Tony Heinz wins 2026 Optica award

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February 24, 2026

Brain responses to wildlife images may motivate engagement with conservation efforts

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February 23, 2026

The Division of Rationalized Labor by Michelle Jackson, Sociology

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February 19, 2026

The Four Talent Giants by Gi-Wook Shin, Sociology

Caroline Winterer
February 17, 2026

Caroline Winterer receives 2026 Lyman award

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February 10, 2026

Carolyn Bertozzi named Royal Society of Chemistry Honorary Fellow

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February 9, 2026

Beloved podcast 'Philosophy Talk' now available for free

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February 1, 2026

John Chowning receives Technical Grammy

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January 30, 2026

New English courses fuse creativity with literary criticism

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January 29, 2026

Mathematical model calculates probability of shared ancestors for African Americans

Jon Simon with the cavity array microscope
January 28, 2026

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.
January 28, 2026

New chip-sized optical amplifier can intensify light 100 times

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January 22, 2026

Jonathan Gienapp wins Order of the Coif book award

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January 8, 2026

Fang Liu wins Scialog awards

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January 6, 2026

Barnabas Daru receives International Biogeography Society award

Portrait of Hunter Fraser
December 17, 2025

Neurodiversity could be an essential consequence of human evolution

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December 17, 2025

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

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December 16, 2025

Advance could expand immune therapy as a cancer treatment

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December 15, 2025

Four things to know about ethnic studies in California high schools

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December 10, 2025

John R. Rickford receives lifetime service award

Portrait of Gerald Gillespie
December 8, 2025

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

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December 4, 2025

Benjamin Good wins APS Early Career Award

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December 3, 2025

Autocrats vs. Democrats by Michael McFaul, Political Science

Portrait of Jonathan Luk
December 2, 2025

Jonathan Luk receives American Mathematical Society award

Portrait of Stephen Hinton
November 21, 2025

Stephen Hinton named Berlin Prize Fellow