Sara Zaske

3 weeks ago | humsci.stanford.edu | Sara Zaske

In a recent study, White Americans who backed diversity for “instrumental” rather than moral reasons also tended to have views that support an unequal system in society. Instrumental arguments in higher education emphasize diversity’s practical benefits, such as saying it fuels innovation or helps students prepare for a globalized economy. These arguments are common in university marketing and have been a hallmark of legal cases for race-based admissions for almost 50 years.

1 month ago | medicalxpress.com | Sara Zaske

Most people have right-dominant hearts—which to a doctor or a researcher means they have an artery that extends from the right side of their hearts to supply oxygenated blood to the back side. For some people, this artery, called the posterior descending artery, comes from the left side or from both directions. A study has found that the gene CXCL12 is connected to this artery's formation and that its directional pattern is set very early in human development.

1 month ago | copernical.com | Sara Zaske

'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earthby Sara Zaske for Stanford NewsStanford CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2025 Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves.

2 months ago | terradaily.com | Sara Zaske

'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earthby Sara Zaske for Stanford NewsStanford CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2025 Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves.

Jan 31, 2025 | magazine.wsu.edu | Sara Zaske |Larry Clark

The Association for Faculty Women is no ordinary networking group. It is arguably one of the most consequential organizations in Washington State University history⁠—with the records to prove it. Among them: evidence of how AFW members have helped increase the numbers of women faculty at WSU, established a commission on women, and supported a gender equity lawsuit that transformed women’s athletics in the entire state, with impacts across the country.