Stanford University

Distinguished university citizens Angela Nomellini, ’75, and Ram Shriram, are this year’s recipients of the Gold Spike Award, Stanford’s highest annual honor for volunteer service. President Richard Saller conferred the awards at an April…

Five Stanford undergraduates have been awarded the 2024 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, designed to foster and encourage students to pursue research careers in the fields of the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics. This year’s…

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced 124 newly elected members, including seven Stanford University researchers. Scientists are elected to the NAS by their peers “in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements…

Households with gas or propane stoves regularly breathe unhealthy levels of nitrogen dioxide, a study of air pollution in U.S. homes found. “I didn’t expect to see pollutant concentrations breach health benchmarks in bedrooms within an…

More than a dozen high school students walked toward the roar of cascading water at the Searsville Dam, excitedly pointing out a small delicate turkey tail mushroom, the blinking eyes of a bullfrog hiding under a leaf, and black beetles…

Kirstin Valdez Quade was awarded a fellowship for fiction. Valdez Quade is an author and associate professor of English in the School of Humanities and Sciences, where she teaches fiction in the Creative Writing Program. Valdez Quade…

Small wearable or implantable electronics could help monitor our health, diagnose diseases, and provide opportunities for improved, autonomous treatments. But to do this without aggravating or damaging the cells around them, these…

Oil and gas operations across the United States are emitting more than 6 million tons per year of methane, the main component of natural gas and the most abundant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, according to Stanford-led research …

Although COVID-19 has faded from the headlines, SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus behind the pandemic – is still rampantly infecting people around the world. Public health officials fear as the virus continues to evolve, it will eventually hit…

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Accelerator is supporting 16 projects focused on removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere – the first funding given as part of the Greenhouse Gas Removal Flagship Destination, which has a…