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Humanities & Sciences News
The pace never slows at Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences. Every day, students and faculty unveil meaningful discoveries and produce original scholarship. They create and investigate, collaborate and communicate, at all hours and in every corner of campus.
That intellectual energy extends far beyond department walls. Through lectures, conferences, performances and exhibitions, H&S scholars reflect and engage with the Stanford community and experts from around the world.
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Latest News
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- Award-winning Stanford author Adam Johnson discusses the renaissance of the short story
- Dec 9 - Stanford English Professor Adam Johnson, recently the recipient of the National Book Award in fiction, weighs in on the power of the short story, the need for humor and the next generation of writers. Read more »
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- Stanford professor connects American authors to the places that inspired them
- Dec 7 - From Minnesota to Texas, Frederick Douglass to Walt Whitman, Stanford English Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin guides readers through the sites that shaped our greatest writers. Read more »
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- Stanford’s Philosophy Department trains leaders, thinkers
- Dec 4 - Using tools of thinking, the program explores life’s fundamental questions. Read more »
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- Stanford professor explores transformative relationships in new story collection
- Dec 2 - Stanford English Professor Elizabeth Tallent addresses how relationships shape our identity in her latest collection of short stories. Read more »
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- Physicist Steven Kahn elected to AAAS
- Nov 24 - Kahn, the Cassius Lamb Kirk Professor in the Natural Sciences, has been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his contributions to X-ray astronomy and his leadership of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project under construction in Chile. Read more »
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- Adam Johnson wins National Book Award
- Nov 20 - Stanford English professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson earns a 2015 National Book Award for Fortune Smiles, a collection of short stories. Read more »
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- Stanford historian uncovers the historical origins of the gay suicide stereotype
- Nov 19 - Stanford doctoral student Samuel Clowes Huneke’s research traces the history of the gay suicide trope from its roots in 20th-century Germany to its insidious prevalence in modern American pop culture. Read more »
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- Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center digitizes collection for online database
- Nov 12 - The 6-year project provides free access for scholars and art lovers alike to both the works on view and the 95 percent of the collection held in storage. Read more »
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- Artistic works influence our minds and nervous systems, Stanford scholar reveals
- Nov 11 - Stanford theater historian Matthew Wilson Smith’s new research shows how 19th century brain science has nerved its way into the drama of our lives, both onstage and off. Read more »
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- Three Stanford scientists honored by Breakthrough Prize Foundation
- Nov 9 - Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, has been awarded a $3 million 2016 Breakthrough Prize in life sciences. He joins two Stanford physicists, Associate Professor Xiao-Liang Qi and Assistant Professor Leonardo Senatore, who each received New Horizons in Physics prizes at a gala event on… Read more »
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- Stanford performances and symposium highlight architecture
- Nov 6 - Stanford continues to be the “it” place for architecture with upcoming dance performances on Nov. 7-8 and a symposium on Nov. 13 with international experts. Read more »
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- Stanford scholars spy history of capitalist culture in Bond film songs
- Nov 5 - A musicologist and a literary scholar find a unique window into the evolution of capitalism and changing attitudes toward work in 50 years of James Bond movie theme songs. Read more »
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H&S Stories About Passion:
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- Tommy Tobin
- Tobin is committed to giving back to his community. Watch »
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- Chase Mendenhall
- Mendenhall is a PhD student studying ecology and evolutionary biology. Watch »
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- Jhanvi Shriram
- Shriram explores the intersection of democracy and media with her camera. Watch »
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