Blandford’s major contributions range from energetic jets ripping forth from colossal black holes to cosmic “magnifying” glasses to gravitational waves.
Stanford junior Caroline Pecos-Duarte, ’21, is the recipient of the Udall Scholarship, which will support her pursuit of a career as a physician serving Native American communities.
The awards from the American Council of Learned Societies support promising doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences as they complete their dissertations.
The Knight-Hennessy Scholars program has announced the selection of a diverse third cohort, whose members represent 26 countries. They will pursue a wide range of graduate degrees in 39 programs at Stanford.
The Stanford professor and inventor has been awarded the top honor in information and communications research, and has gifted back her $100,000 honorarium to start an endowment to fund technology and diversity initiatives.
15 Stanford faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies, are scholars in the fields of education, performing arts, economics, law and mathematics.
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans award provides support for immigrants, and the children of immigrants, to pursue graduate degrees at any U.S. university.
