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Nov 13, 2024 | 
scopeblog.stanford.edu | Ruthann Richter |Daphne Sashin |Holly MacCormick
After spending countless hours at his mother's bedside in the intensive care unit at Stanford Hospital, Esteban Manriquez sought out a quiet spot where he could rest and recharge. He found it at the Frank Family Resource Center on the hospital's third floor, a peaceful refuge and a source of support and information to nurture those caring for loved ones. "After more than a week here, you begin to feel trapped," said Manriquez, whose mother was recuperating from a liver transplant.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
humsci.stanford.edu | Holly MacCormick
Yakov Eliashberg, the Herald L. and Caroline L. Ritch Professor in Humanities and Sciences and professor of mathematics in H&S, and Claire Voisin of the National Center for Scientific Research, France, shared a 2024 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences from the BBVA Foundation for research that advanced the field of mathematics by bridging the fields of algebraic and symplectic geometry.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
news.stanford.edu | Holly MacCormick
Faculty members Carolyn Bertozzi, Alexandria Boehm, Shanhui Fan, Carlos Ernesto Guestrin, and Howard Allan Zebker have been elected to the 2024 class of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The Stanford faculty members are among the 114 researchers nominated and chosen by their peers to join the academy this year, which is among the highest professional distinctions accorded engineers. Carolyn Bertozzi, the Anne T. and Robert M.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
phys.org | Holly MacCormick
What influences the choices we make, and what role does the behavior of others have on these choices? These questions underlie many aspects of human behavior, including the products we buy, fashion trends, and even the breed of pet we choose as our companion.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
humsci.stanford.edu | Holly MacCormick
What influences the choices we make, and what role does the behavior of others have on these choices? These questions underlie many aspects of human behavior, including the products we buy, fashion trends, and even the breed of pet we choose as our companion. Now, a new Stanford study that used population and statistical models to analyze the frequency of specific moves in 3.45 million chess games helps reveal the factors that influence chess players’ decisions.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
humsci.stanford.edu | Holly MacCormick
Tadashi “Tad” Fukami, professor of biology in the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences and professor of Earth system science in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, has been named the new faculty director of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. He began his term Sept. 1. A hallmark of Fukami’s research is his use of elegantly simple, often small-scale, experiments to better understand complex species interactions, large-scale ecosystem processes, and theories of ecology.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
humsci.stanford.edu | Holly MacCormick
Roger Blandford, the Luke Blossom Professor in the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences and professor of physics, will direct the Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources—an international team that aims to explain astrophysical developments related to neutron stars and black holes. The SCEECS is funded by the Simons Foundation, which awarded the Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources team a total of $8 million for an initial period of four years.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
phys.org | Holly MacCormick
Cancer cells can evade the body's immune defenses by exploiting a normally helpful and ubiquitous group of molecules known as mucins. Now, Stanford researchers have engineered a biomolecule that removes mucins specifically from cancer cells—a discovery that could play a significant role in future therapies for cancer.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
news.stanford.edu | Holly MacCormick
Cancer cells can evade the body’s immune defenses by exploiting a normally helpful and ubiquitous group of molecules known as mucins. Now, Stanford researchers have engineered a biomolecule that removes mucins specifically from cancer cells – a discovery that could play a significant role in future therapies for cancer. Mucins are sugar-coated proteins whose primary function is to defend the body against physical insults and pathogens. But cancer cells can co-opt mucins to aid their survival.
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Jul 10, 2023 | 
news.stanford.edu | Holly MacCormick
Family trees, photo albums, and grandparents are often the go-to sources of information for people curious to know who their relatives were. Genetic ancestry is also a useful tool, but these measurements typically provide data on percentages of different populations in a person’s ancestry, not on specific people.
