Stanford Report

Nina Zhao in safety glasses and a blue lab coat smiles while holding a box of samples in a lab aisle lined with shelves of supplies.

‘We live in a chemical world’

Research Matters

Profile

Nina Zhao is working to map the drugs, pesticides, and pollutants we encounter in daily life – often unknowingly – and to understand how they shape human and ecosystem health.

Four friends stand arm in arm in a pool of water, smiling as water sprays from White Memorial Fountain behind them.

Snapshots from a spirited homecoming on the Farm

Events

Event

Researchers Adam Brandt, Josh Romo, and Taylor Adams set up a tripod-mounted weather sensor on a desert flat at sunset.

Satellites detect methane emissions in large-scale test

Earth & Climate

Research

Five panelists sit on a stage before a red curtain, facing a large student audience in a theater.

Panel explores what makes a good life

COLLEGE

Event

At a panel for Why College? Your Education and the Good Life, students and campus leaders explored how choices about time, learning, and relationships can shape a life well lived.

Stanford Professor Jonathan Pritchard at the whiteboard

New dataset reveals how genes work together in immune cells

Health & Medicine

Research

A large-scale study of gene activity in immune cells could help researchers identify potential targets for treating autoimmune diseases.

Student emergency responders practice on a stretcher beside an open ambulance door while a teammate looks on, during a training exercise outdoors.

On shift with Stanford’s student EMTs

Academics

News

Student-led Stanford Emergency Medical Services provides care at campus events while providing members with hands-on experience, mentorship, and leadership opportunities.

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.

The return on government-sponsored science is powerful: Every $1 of NIH-funded research leads to $2.56 in economic activity.

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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

A new approach to forecasting toxic metals in wildfire smoke

Earth & Climate

Video

Wildfires can turn natural metals in soil into toxic, airborne particles. Stanford researchers are working to predict where these metals travel and warn people in harm’s way.