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April 27, 2023
Stanford Bio-X is delighted to announce the 2023 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program (USRP) cohort.

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April 20, 2023
Ten award-winning scholars from around the globe have been selected as the 2023…
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April 20, 2023
Thirteen Stanford faculty members are among the 269 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which honors exceptional…

Attendees at the KIPAC 20th Anniversary Community Day festival will observe the sun through telescopes and sun-spotters. (Image credit: Jacqueline Ramseyer...

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April 10, 2023
This year, the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) is celebrating two decades…
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March 10, 2023
After five years in the role, Kathryn A.
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March 6, 2023
Physics Director of Finance and Operations Rosenna Yau is retiring in March 2023 after 47 years at Stanford.

Illustration showing distortions in a new quantum material that were produced by an electronic tug-of-war between negatively charged cobalt ions ­and positively...

February 24, 2023
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have created a new type of …

Lance Dixon, professor of particle physics and astrophysics at SLAC and Stanford, is one of three recipients of the 2023 Galileo Galilei Medal. (Farrin Abbott...

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February 17, 2023
Lance Dixon, professor of particle physics and astrophysics at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford…

The “Stanford Six” (from left): Monika Schleier-Smith, Hyowon Gweon, Erin Mordecai, Alia Crum, Jessica Feldman, and Lauren Tompkins. (Image credit: Andrew...

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February 7, 2023
In May 2016, six friends wound their way around the Stanford campus on an informal nighttime lab tour. The friends were six new faculty, and the labs…

The experimental setup where Pouse and colleagues studied their "two-island" device. (Winston Pouse/Stanford University)

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February 3, 2023
"We're always making mathematical models that we hope will capture the essence of phenomena we’re interested in, but even if we believe they're…