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On the official list of Stanford presidents, he is literally a footnote.

Just after the entry for Ray Lyman Wilbur, whose 27-year tenure remains the longest in university history, a superscript 1 leads to a single-line notation: “Robert…

Source: © Yifan Meng | The charge that builds up when sticky tape is unrolled is powerful enough to accelerate chemical reactions

The intense electric fields generated by peeling tape can produce ‘microlightning’ that can ionise reactants and drive chemical reactions, researchers in China and the US have shown.1 The researchers believe this demonstrates the usefulness…

Nicole Elizete Theberath, Stanford University B.S. with Honors in Chemistry and Class of 2025, is the recipient of this year's Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.  Nicole's thesis focused on the "Clonal Behavior of…

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Jennifer Hamad,  an undergraduate researcher in the  Wender Lab,  has been selected as one of twenty-five students to receive the 2025 J.E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement.  

This prestigious award,…

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From the not-so-empty space between the stars to tiny molecules critical to understanding human disease, two recent National Science Foundation CAREER award projects highlight the wide range of research underway in Stanford’s School of Humanities…