Stanford Report

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Are you getting enough fiber?

Health & Medicine

Analysis & Insights

Only 5% of American adults meet the daily recommended intake for fiber – and the consequences go well beyond digestion. Here’s what nutrition researchers want you to know.

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Anderson Collection’s founding director steps down

Arts

Q&A

Wildfire smoke billows above hills, with flames visible through trees near residential areas.

California’s home insurance crisis spreads beyond wildfire country

Earth & Climate

Research

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A guide to making complex research land with any audience

Science & Engineering

Q&A

Stanford civil engineer Jack Baker draws on communications science, cognitive psychology, and design thinking in a new book for researchers who want their best work to get the attention it deserves.

Mountain lion walking over leaf litter through a forest.

Mountain lions have major ecological impact in small preserve

Science & Engineering

Research

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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A Stanford grad’s mission to build opportunity in Malaysia

Academics

Profile

Celeste Chung, ’26, founded a nonprofit at 16 to create learning centers in Sabah, her home state in Malaysia. Now she’s paying her Stanford opportunities forward by developing a scholarship program for Sabahan students.

In the news

Shoot for the stars, but make sure that the stars you’re seeing are what’s really out there.

Ekaterina (Kath) Landgren, Stanford postdoctoral fellow, on new research revealing that aiming just above average in ambition leads to better outcomes.

Read the story in The Guardian

NBC Bay Area

New research explores collecting water in Earth’s driest places

Stanford researchers are working on technology that draws out water from some of the driest places in the world.

The Hill

US kids caught in ‘reading recession’ that predates COVID

Research co-led by Stanford finds that children in a majority of U.S. states are performing at lower levels than they were in the decade prior.

Research Matters

Groundbreaking innovations that begin in Stanford labs flow freely into private industry to improve human well-being, fuel the economy, and strengthen American competitiveness.

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Featured reading

The Life Machines

Daria Mochly-Rosen and Emanuel Rosen

Book

Stanford Medicine Professor Daria Mochly-Rosen and Emanuel Rosen explain mitochondria’s role in human health and the lifestyle habits that will leverage their benefits.

Featured reading

The Division of Rationalized Labor

Michelle Jackson

Book

Michelle Jackson, associate professor of sociology, explains a paradox in how the division of labor has evolved over the last 150 years: Many of today’s occupations have both more specialization and a wider range of responsibilities.