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The researchers wondered if they could tilt the balance back toward a younger immune system by depleting myeloid-leaning HSCs and allowing the more balanced HSCs to replace them. Their hunch was correct. Mice between 18 and 24…

Stanford students share how Stanford’s campus serves as a living lab to advance sustainability initiatives. (Image credit: Keith Uyeda) To mark the beginning of Earth Month, Stanford community members gathered at Paul Brest…

Jonathan Levin has been appointed the 13th president of Stanford University. (Image credit: Aubrie Pick) Jonathan Levin, a distinguished economist and Stanford alumnus who has led the Stanford Graduate School of Business as…

The computer scientist says there’s not enough emphasis on teaching logic early. His latest effort to educate teens on the subject – which is broadly useful and crucial in computer programming – involves a new international olympiad at…

Shirley Everett (far left) moderates a panel on “Leading With Courage: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Through Troubled Waters” with (from left) Patrick Dunkley, Deborah Cullinan, Ayodele Thomas, and Dr. Joyce…

Ellen Kuhl, the Walter B. Reinhold Professor in the School of Engineering and Robert Bosch Chair of Mechanical Engineering will assume directorship of Bio-X on Sept. 1. (Image credit: Aaron Kehoe) Stanford Professor Ellen…

Go to the web site to view the video. KIPAC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SECe-9ij7PY Sushant Mahajan presents about uncovering the enigmatic and awe-inspiring secrets of the sun through the lens of solar astrophysics.…

Go to the web site to view the video. KIPAC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SECe-9ij7PY Sushant Mahajan presents about uncovering the enigmatic and awe-inspiring secrets of the sun through the lens of solar astrophysics.…

By Edmund L. Andrews Image credit: Hans Wilschut Lower-income communities across the United States have long been much slower to adopt solar power than their affluent neighbors, even when local and federal agencies offer tax…

For its 2023 fiscal year, Stanford Medicine invested more than $1 billion to the local community, supporting a range of services from food donations to free training for medical professionals. “Our community partners provide vital…

Women’s basketball advances to the Sweet 16, men’s wrestling secures two All-America honors, and women’s water polo beats Arizona State in their home opener. Catch up on the latest Stanford Athletics news.…

Women’s basketball advances to the Sweet 16, men’s wrestling secures two All-America honors, and women’s water polo beats Arizona State in their home opener. Catch up on the latest Stanford Athletics news.

Conversations like this one — about policy and technology, but also about living and leading — frame the purpose, intention, and unique online environment of the course. Rather than just focus on theory, this program aims to identify the…

Kyle Smith Named Head Coach of Stanford Men’s Basketball …

Optical images of truncated tetrahedrons forming two large hexagonal grains at an anti-phase boundary (left), and transforming into a quasi-diamond phase that initiated at the anti-phase boundary (right). Scale bars are 25…

Artificial intelligence-powered health care, generative models in medical research and the ethics of broad AI integration were key topics at the March 18 Stanford Med LIVE event featuring experts from across Stanford Medicine.…

Star chef Mingoo Kang of Korea discusses the popular Korean ingredient jang at the O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm. (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead) On Friday, about 120 Stanford community members gathered at the…

Energy-recycling actuator prototype. (Image credit: Erez Krimsky) Whether it’s a powered prosthesis to assist a person who has lost a limb or an independent robot navigating the outside world, we are asking machines to…

George Triantis, the Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, will assume the deanship of Stanford Law School on June 17. (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead) George Triantis, the Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business and…

George Triantis, the Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, will assume the deanship of Stanford Law School on June 17. (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead) George Triantis, the Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and…

STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford earned its 36th consecutive NCAA Tournament bid when the NCAA Women's Basketball Selection Committee announced the field Sunday evening.   The Cardinal (28-5), seeded second, was placed in Portland Regional 4.…

Professor Condoleezza Rice participates in a Q&A moderated by Professor Scott Sagan, left, at Bechtel Conference Center on Tuesday. (Image credit: Rod Searcey) With so much global turmoil today – from Ukraine to the…

The 3D-printed DeSimone lab logo, featuring a buckyball geometry, demonstrates the r2rCLIP system’s ability to produce complex, non-moldable shapes with micron-scale features. (Image credit: DeSimone Research Group, SEM…

Intrinsically stretchable transistors and integrated circuits under large deformation after being released from the supporting substrate. (Image credit: Donglai Zhong, Jiancheng Lai and Yuya Nishio of Bao Group in Stanford…

The researchers used two different but complementary approaches to measuring methane emissions from specific facilities via airplane-borne sensors. (Image credit: Carbon Mapper) Oil and gas operations across the United…

Stanford researchers aim to get ahead of coronavirus evolution by designing antiviral drugs that continue to work on Paxlovid-resistant mutants. (Image credit: Getty Images) Although COVID-19 has faded from the headlines,…

Day Jobs at the Cantor Arts Center explores the ways that artists incorporate everyday experiences and accidental discoveries from their day jobs into their artwork. (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead) Newly opened Day Jobs at the Cantor…

Day Jobs at the Cantor Arts Center explores the ways that artists incorporate everyday experiences and accidental discoveries from their day jobs into their artwork. (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead) Newly opened Day Jobs at…

The workshop is the latest collaboration under an Education Partnership Agreement (EPA) established in 2022 between the two institutions in direct support of the U.S. Navy’s Climate Action 2030 strategy,…

The workshop is the latest collaboration under an Education Partnership Agreement (EPA) established in 2022 between the two institutions in direct support of the U.S. Navy’s Climate Action 2030 strategy,…

The data turned up another surprise: The microbiomes in different places in the body were highly correlated. Even though different types of bacteria are present, when the microbiome of one body area changes, the others also shift.…

More people than ever live outside the country of their birth—281,000,000 migrants.1 To put it in perspective, if migrants formed their own country, it would be the fourth most populous country in the world, after China, India, and the…

New research looks at how low humidity resulting from ventilation reduces the presence of natural disinfectants in the air, which could influence the spread of airborne viruses indoors. (Image credit: Getty Images) In…

Clinicians at Stanford Health Care will soon have access to an AI-powered app that can securely listen to interactions with patients and automatically generate draft clinical notes. The app, which was recently tested in a pilot…

Researchers in the Cochran lab, including Jack Silberstein (center), led the effort to capture an atomic-scale snapshot of the protein LAG-3. This protein has recently gained popularity for use in certain cancer treatments…

Sally Ride, Jessica Watkins, Ellen Ochoa, Mae Jemison A constellation of remarkable Stanford alumnae have taken giant leaps for women in space. Sally Ride, ’73, MS ’75, PhD ’78, applied to be an astronaut while earning her…

Researchers from the Stanford Center for AEroSpace Autonomy Research (CAESAR) in the robotic testbed, which can simulate the movements of autonomous spacecraft. (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead) Space travel is complex,…

Daylight saving time (DST) – when clocks jump forward one hour in most states – is just around the corner, and it can be a tricky time for kids as they need to adjust. Stanford Medicine Children’s Health pediatric pulmonologists and…

Amir Safavi-Naeini (left) and Hubert Stokowski. (Image credit: Petra Parikova/Ula Stokowska) Stanford researchers have unveiled a new type of frequency comb, a high-precision measurement device, that is innovatively small,…

“Biomedical engineering represents the integration of technology and medicine at the point of care,” said Adam Alkhato, administrative director for biomedical engineering at Stanford Medicine’s Technology and Digital Solutions. “We…

Imagine a novel approach to in-school tutoring that hardly interrupts class instruction at all, because tutoring sessions take at most 10 minutes a day. And imagine that it works.  A study by Stanford researchers finds that “short…

Awash in a tsunami of often-conflicting information, people tend to look to experts for guidance on what to believe and what to do. If an expert comes across as highly confident and their opinion dovetails with one’s political views…

The Li Ka Shing Foundation has provided a significant gift to Stanford University for a multidisciplinary initiative aimed at supporting resilience and well-being among aspiring entrepreneurs. The goal of the Stanford Initiative for…

The Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden on the corner of Santa Teresa Street and Lomita Drive has been a feature in Stanford’s landscape since 1994 when 10 artists from the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea spent four…

“Food allergies have significant social and psychological impacts, including the threat of allergic reactions upon accidental exposures, some of which can be life-threatening,” Chinthrajah said. Families also face economic impacts…

In the year 2000, there were 13,600 kidney transplants in the United States. Just 22 years later, that number topped 25,000—in part because of some creative thinking from Dr. Al Roth, an economist and Stanford University…

Illustration of a shoebox-sized accelerator. An electron source and buncher/injector feeds into a sub-relativistic DLA (the device described in this article), which accelerates electrons up to 1MeV in energy. These electrons…

Researchers Alia Crum and Kari Leibowitz facilitating a follow-up session to evaluate the outcomes of the “Medicine Plus Mindset” training. (Image credit: Worldview Studio) A new study from Stanford University, published…

Researchers Alia Crum and Kari Leibowitz facilitating a follow-up session to evaluate the outcomes of the “Medicine Plus Mindset” training. (Image credit: Worldview Studio) A new study from Stanford University, published…

A child using a kiosk at the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. Drawings from the kiosk were collected and analyzed using AI to help the researchers better understand how children perceive the world, and how they…