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We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care

WEBThe School of Humanities and Sciences is the foundation of a liberal arts education at Stanford. The school encompasses 24 departments and 25 interdisciplinary …

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Stanford study reveals mechanisms behind how growing cells …

WEBJan Skotheim. Photo by LiPo Ching / Stanford University. “Transcription is almost proportional to cell size because of the increasing number of RNAPII molecules …

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Stanford researchers develop and implement training to help …

WEBLead author Kari Leibowitz and senior author Alia Crum, associate professor of psychology in the School of Humanities and Sciences – both of the Stanford Mind & …

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U.S. Health Policy in the COVID Era and Beyond

WEBRan Abramitzky, Kate Bundorf, Lisa Chamberlain, Mark Duggan, and Maria Polyakova discuss the health policy challenges facing the nation and what the future …

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Student activism finds a focus at Stanford's Handa Center

WEBStudents with David Cohen. In fall 2016, growing student interest in the center’s work led to the launch of a new interdisciplinary minor in human rights.

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$4M awarded to 8 impact labs to combat social ills

WEBMisinformation on the internet. Anti-democratic beliefs. Financial contagion. Educational and health inequality. These are just a few of the threats facing the United …

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Academics and Research

WEBAcademics and Research. The School of Humanities and Sciences is the foundation of a liberal arts education at Stanford, where students are free to explore the arts, …

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Stanford’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

WEBOn April 14, 1967, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. visited Stanford University to deliver a speech he called “The Other America.”In the speech, he discussed three …

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Stanford introduces medical humanities minor

WEBWestern medicine focuses on treating diseases using science and a scientific approach as a means to save lives. More recently, however, with our deepening …

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Attractive and repulsive forces between two

WEBThe hippocampus—the brain region associated with memory—is named after its seahorse-like shape. Here, a crystal seahorse with yellow and blue oil repelling …

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The Science of Herd Immunity

WEBThe concept of herd immunity has been applied for decades in epidemiology and public health, yet the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted new debate about the role …

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Physicist and educator says new pedagogy imperative for society

WEBBetter science education is not only an important goal of education researchers, it’s also critical to the future of humanity, said Carl Wieman, 2001 Nobel laureate in physics and winner of the world’s largest education research award, the Yidan Prize, for 2020.Having pivoted from atomic physics, where he produced the Bose-Einstein condensate which …

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Innovation with MacArthur Fellow Heidi Williams Stanford School …

WEBHeidi Williams, a 2015 MacArthur Fellow and professor of economics, talks with Ran Abramitzky about the causes and consequences of innovation in health care …

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Stanford biologists transfer specialized skills to COVID-19 testing

WEBAfter hearing media reports that the Monterey County Public Health Laboratory faced a staff shortage to meet quickly growing COVID-19 testing demands, …

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WINGS (Wellness Information Network for Graduate Students)

WEBBuilding 1, Main Quad 450 Jane Stanford Way Stanford, CA 94305-2070. Phone: 650-723-2275 Fax: 650-723-3235

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Victor Fuchs, pioneer of health care economics, has died

WEBVictor Fuchs talks about the viability of a single-payer health insurance system at a Feb. 5, 2018, event at SIEPR. Starting about 10 years ago, Fuchs would …

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Latino mental health is affected by immigration controversies, …

WEBBook image courtesy of Princeton University Press. The researchers initially expected that major immigration-related events—such as the Obama administration’s …

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New gift will help Stanford reimagine Native American Studies …

WEBA-dae Romero-Briones. Photo by Amy Jobeker / First Nations Development Institute. “This gift will allow us to both secure and to deepen current programming in …

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Bioorthogonal Chemistry with MacArthur Fellow and Nobel …

WEBCarolyn Bertozzi, a 1999 MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, talks with Ran Abramitzky, professor of economics, about her …

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