Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences

From sleeping through the call to shaking hands with the king and queen, laureates reflect on what it was like to win the Nobel Prize. This year’s winners will be announced Oct. 5-12.

Building on the first-year course COLLEGE 102: Citizenship in the 21st Century, the minor is open to students of all majors and encourages discussion of contentious issues facing democratic societies.

Lin uses electricity to simplify complex chemical reactions, offering a path to making drug molecules more efficiently and with fewer hazardous chemicals.

The beloved Stanford professor pioneered research on plant cell growth and taught a popular wine course.

The discovery that tiny units of sound can suddenly change energy states has the potential to advance a range of technologies.

A Stanford-led team has created a new type of spin glass made of atoms and photons and used it to increase the memory capacity of simple artificial intelligence systems.

Many cells in an acorn worm reprogram into different cell types instead of dying or staying the same, the first evidence of this process in bilaterally symmetrical animals.

A high-throughput method enables researchers to screen hundreds of drugs in parallel, accelerating discovery of therapies that degrade disease-causing proteins.

Neuroscientists have found compelling evidence for a neural network dedicated to language in the adult human brain, with potential implications for treating language problems after stroke or brain injury.

In Unrest: Art in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, art scholar Rose Salseda chronicles intergenerational, cross-racial experiences through the prism of art.