Stanford in the News

Why women must ask (the right way): Negotiation advice from Stanford's Margaret A. Neale

An interview with Graduate School of Business Professor Margaret Neale on women and negotiation.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg supportive, teasing and challenging as Stanford commencement speaker

One of several articles about Stanford's Commencement Ceremony featuring New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Goodbye, Ahmadinejad; hello, Rouhani

Article quotes Abbas Milani, director of Iranian Studies, on the Iranian presidential election.

Big data meets the Bard

Article quotes Franco Moretti, professor of English and of comparative literature on the use of technology to study literature.

In Kenya, where one in four women has been raped, self defense training makes a difference

Post to the Smart News blog notes that according to a study by the Stanford School of Medicine, a short course in both verbal and physical self-defense can significantly improve girls' odds of escaping would-be rapists.

Why you should stop talking to your car

Professor of communication Clifford Nass wrote this opinion piece.

Killing gene patents could revitalize biotech

Analysis of the Supreme Court decision on gene patenting quotes assistant professor of bioengineering Drew Endy and social science research associate Linda Kahl.

Researchers hail Supreme Court decision on gene patent

Article quotes assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine Euan Ashley.

Powerful X-ray reveals archaeopteryx feather's hidden colors

Article quotes Uwe Bergmann, interim director for SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source.

The NSA data: Where does it go?

Article quotes Graduate School of Business lecturer Jonathan Koomey.

South Korea calling, but North pretends that nobody is home

Article quotes GI-Wook Shin, director of the Korean Studies Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, and senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

You make better decisions if you "see" your senior self

Article cites research by Brian Knutson, associate professor of psychology.]

Using 'nature as an asset' to balance Costa Rica's farming with preservation

Segment of the 'Food for 9 Billion' series discussing how climate change is affecting the food we produce and how we eat features biology Professor Gretchen Daily and Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology.

8 new ways of looking at intelligence

Article cites research by psychology Professor Carol Dweck and alumnus David Yeager.

Expansion longer than most in U.S. without worst excess: economy

Article quotes Robert E. Hall, economics professor and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Progress at work, but mothers still pay a price

This opinion piece cites research by professor of sociology Shelley Correll who points out that mothers earn 5 percent less per hour, per child, than comparable workers who are childless women.

Exhibit A for a major shift: Justices' gay clerks

Article cites law professor Pamela Karlan.

Four people who are changing the world tell you how. Are you ready?

Graduate School of Business student Vivek Garg, founder of Business Alternatives for Peace, Action and Reconstruction (BAPAR), as one of the four.

Our guts may hate Mars

This piece, subtitled 'We can leave Earth. But will we always have to bring it with us?' quotes Justin Sonnenburg, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology.

Thomas: The coming Obamacare disaster

This opinion piece by columnist Cal Thomas quotes Daniel Kessler, professor of law and at the Graduate School of Business and Hoover Institution senior fellow.

A chance to defuse North Korea

Three Stanford scholars wrote this opinion piece: GI-Wook Shin, director of the Korean Studies Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, and senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, David Straub, associate director of the Korean Studies Program, and Thomas Fingar, consulting professor at FSI

Will Obama end the long war on terror?

This piece, subtitled 'There are some hopeful signs, including his recent speech at the National Defense University and a new, less hawkish foreign policy team,' cites Daniel Sneider, associate director for research at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

The era of 'uncertainty' may be over. Will a growth boom begin?

Post to the Wonkblog references the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index built by Stanford and University of Chicago economists and quotes Nicholas Bloom, professor of economics and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and economics graduate student Scott Ross Baker.

Blacks are singled out for marijuana arrests, federal data suggests

The data was independently reviewed for The New York Times by researchers at Stanford

Study: More than a third of new marriages start online

Article quotes Michael Rosenfeld, associate professor of sociology.