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Walter Falcon, global authority on food security, has died

Raised on a farm in east Iowa and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, the Stanford economics professor was an internationally sought-after agricultural adviser.

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Physicists awarded $8M to explore the boundaries of electrodynamics

An international team led by Stanford’s Roger Blandford will study astrophysical developments related to neutron stars and black holes.

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“Post-Cinematic Bodies” explores how tech co-opts our physical selves

Shane Denson’s new book considers how tech can co-opt our physical selves – and how art can save us.

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Tze Leung Lai, professor of statistics, has died

Lai is remembered as a dedicated mentor and prolific scholar with an interdisciplinary approach to theoretical statistics and mathematics.

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Crime story as bourgeois horror

Haiyan Lee, author of a new book that compares Chinese and American views of justice, on why spy thrillers are more popular in China than detective stories.

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‘What Even Is Gender?’

“It is customary to speak of someone having a gender identity, but most of us have many gender feels, which need not pattern together in any particular way,” Stanford philosopher R.A. Briggs writes in a new co-authored book.

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New model helps fill gaps in African American ancestry

The authors of a study that introduces a new way of thinking about genealogy discuss interpreting ancestry fractions in relation to family trees and why they used former first lady Michelle Obama’s family as an example.

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New insight into how plant cells divide

Both animal and plant stem cells rely on the cytoskeleton to divide properly, but in opposite ways. The findings could help researchers engineer more resilient plants.

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Lyman P. Van Slyke has died

A relentless yet humble scholar, Van Slyke helped distinguish Stanford’s Department of History for its scholarship in East Asian studies.

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Stanley Wojcicki has died

The experimental particle physicist took part in his field's most explosive phases of discovery and is remembered for his wisdom and warmth.

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