Stanford Report

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What to know about Democracy Day

Events

News

During Stanford’s annual day of civic celebration, students can build an election prediction model, explore careers in public service, play judge in a constitutional law case, and more.

Four researchers stand together, two holding small wired sensor devices, showcasing a lab technology project while wearing white and blue lab coats.

Advanced gene editing tool suggests new ways to treat disease

Health & Medicine

Research

Museum visitor looks up at a row of small framed works on a bright yellow gallery wall.

Exhibition showcases an innovative precursor to 3D printing

Arts

News

Tiffany Griego and Jonathan Levin, holding the book “Inventing the Future” and an illustrated Stanford Research Park 75th-anniversary poster.

Stanford Research Park marks 75 years

Campus & Facilities

Feature

Collaboration among the university, industry, and the local community has made the park a top destination for cutting-edge businesses shaping the world.

Illustration of a silhouetted person standing alone among scattered coronavirus particles on a blue background.

Study refines our understanding of long COVID

Science & Engineering

News

An analysis of 14.4 billion medical insurance claims has uncovered limitations in earlier studies, offering a more reliable way to measure the long-term health effects of COVID-19.

Shima Salehi points to a screen showing a video call with another classroom as seated participants watch.

Stanford instructors tap AI for deeper learning

Artificial Intelligence

Feature

In community share-outs, instructors discussed AI tools designed to support problem-solving and help students learn more independently.

In the News

Fossils are our only opportunity to see into past biodiversity.

Christine Garcia, geoscience specimen collection curator and manager, commenting on an ice age tooth that has been donated to the Doerr School of Sustainability after being found in an open space preserve in San Mateo County.

Read the story in SFGate

San Francisco Chronicle

Narcoleptic dogs help Stanford scientist crack a medical mystery

By studying a colony of narcoleptic dogs at Stanford, Emmanuel Mignot was able to track down a gene that seemed to play a central role in the condition.

San Jose Mercury News

Stanford team partners with youth on school air quality

A Stanford research team is helping youth-led nonprofit ConServe expand low-cost air-pollution monitoring at schools and in underserved communities.

Research Matters

Federal investments in basic science at Stanford contributed to the development of radar, GPS, heart transplants, MRI scans, the internet, and AI.

What will it yield tomorrow?

Featured reading

What I Wish I Knew About Luck

Tina Seelig

Book

Citing real-life anecdotes and behavioral science research, Tina Seelig, executive director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, argues that much of what we call luck is the result of deliberate actions and consistent efforts.

Featured reading

Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.

Lerone Martin

Book

Stanford’s Lerone A. Martin traces King’s early life from his childhood in Atlanta through his college years at Morehouse and his path to seminary to examine how the civil rights leader’s youth informed his activism.

Featured reading

Moral Economics

Alvin E. Roth

Book

Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin E. Roth argues that many of society's most contentious debates, including those over abortion, drug legalization, and organ donation, are better understood as market design problems than as ethical standoffs.

Stories in Motion

Exhibition pieces together the story of a vanished village

Arts

Video

On view at the Anderson Collection, Patty Chang: surfacing features works exploring the 19th-century Point Alones Chinese Fishing Village, now home to Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station.