Water polo sweeps Bruno Classic Laura Stickells September 7, 2015 0 Comments Stanford men’s water polo opened its season at the Bruno Classic this past weekend in Cambridge, Mass. and Providence, R.I. with a 5-0 sweep. Senior Bret Bonanni led the team throughout the... Read More »
Hoover Institution calls for small modular reactors for future of nuclear energy Mimi Zambetti July 24, 2015 6 Comments The Hoover Institution, founded at Stanford in 1919, recently released two essays that propose small modular reactors (SMRs) as the future of nuclear power in America. The Shultz-Stephenson Task Force... Read More »
Clayman Institute for Gender Research celebrates 40th anniversary Sam Premutico November 3, 2014 0 Comments On Nov, 6, Stanford’s Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research will be hosting an event to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Read More »
Researchers use batteries to capture and convert heat energy Peter Samuel Moon May 29, 2014 0 Comments Researchers Seok Woo Lee ‘09 Ph.D. ‘11 and Yi Cui from Stanford and Yuan Yang and Gang Chen from MIT have found a new battery technology that captures waste heat and converts it into electricity,... Read More »
MOOCs face challenges in teaching humanities Cara Reichard June 4, 2013 1 Comment Even as massive open online courses (MOOCs) continue to assume an increasingly prominent role in education, regularly enrolling thousands of students from around the world in classes taught by... Read More »
Q+A: Gender scholar Londa Schiebinger McKenzie Andrews May 30, 2013 0 Comments Londa Schiebinger, professor of history and the former director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, was recently awarded an honorary degree from Vrije Universiteit Brussel for her work... Read More »
GSB professor studies Twitter’s value for firms, investors Olivia Moore April 22, 2013 0 Comments Social media websites like Twitter can play a key role in increasing visibility for small businesses, according to a recent study led by Elizabeth Blankespoor, associate professor of accounting at the... Read More »
Class2Go to merge with edX in open source online learning platform Olivia Moore April 2, 2013 0 Comments University administrators have announced plans to merge Class2Go, Stanford’s online course platform, with edX, a nonprofit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts... Read More »