Could technology help reduce pretrial incarceration?
Thousands of people in the U.S. are in prison awaiting trial for misdemeanors. Research suggests text message reminders about court dates could reduce this number significantly.
Undergraduates share their experiences studying mosquito-borne viruses. “If it wasn’t for working in this lab, I wouldn’t be inspired to take on or think about big, important issues that affect so many lives worldwide.”
The physicist and faculty director of the Stanford Arts Institute wants to move “away from hybridizing art and science and toward resurrecting their last common ancestor.”
Department of African and African American Studies will open in January
The Stanford Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Department of African and African American Studies, heard updates from the university’s new leadership, and received reports on the needs of students with disabilities and advancements in the arts, among other matters.
Undergraduate fellows gained hands-on experience in botany and ecology at Stanford’s biological preserve this summer, making a trove of plant data available to the public and implementing and testing a wildfire management plan that reduces risk for the local community.
Tadashi Fukami named faculty director of Jasper Ridge
The professor of biology and of Earth system science is known for exploring complex plant and animal communities through elegant, small-scale experiments that expose students to research in the field.
