Stanford in the News
Forbes 6.17.13Why 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.
San Jose Mercury News 6.16.13Mayor 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.
CNN 6.15.13Goodbye, Ahmadinejad; hello, Rouhani
Article quotes Abbas Milani, director of Iranian Studies, on the Iranian presidential election.
Financial Times 6.15.13Big data meets the Bard
Article quotes Franco Moretti, professor of English and of comparative literature on the use of technology to study literature.
Smithsonian Magazine 6.14.13In 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.
CNN 6.14.13Why you should stop talking to your car
Professor of communication Clifford Nass wrote this opinion piece.
Wired 6.14.13Killing 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.
Los Angeles Times 6.13.13Researchers hail Supreme Court decision on gene patent
Article quotes assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine Euan Ashley.
Los Angeles Times 6.13.13Powerful X-ray reveals archaeopteryx feather's hidden colors
Article quotes Uwe Bergmann, interim director for SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source.
National Geographic 6.12.13The NSA data: Where does it go?
Article quotes Graduate School of Business lecturer Jonathan Koomey.
Christian Science Monitor 6.12.13South 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.
Harvard Business Review 6.12.13You make better decisions if you "see" your senior self
Article cites research by Brian Knutson, associate professor of psychology.]
PBS 6.11.13Using '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.
Time 6.11.138 new ways of looking at intelligence
Article cites research by psychology Professor Carol Dweck and alumnus David Yeager.
Bloomberg via the Washington Post 6.10.13Expansion longer than most in U.S. without worst excess: economy
Article quotes Robert E. Hall, economics professor and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
New York Times 6.8.13Progress 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.
New York Times 6.8.13Exhibit A for a major shift: Justices' gay clerks
Article cites law professor Pamela Karlan.
Forbes 6.6.13Four 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.
Slate 6.6.13Our 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.
Chicago Tribune 6.6.13Thomas: 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.
New York Times 6.5.13A 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
The Nation 6.5.13Will 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.
Washington Post 6.5.13The 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.
New York Times 6.3.13Blacks are singled out for marijuana arrests, federal data suggests
The data was independently reviewed for The New York Times by researchers at Stanford
USA Today 6.3.13Study: More than a third of new marriages start online
Article quotes Michael Rosenfeld, associate professor of sociology.