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November 2015
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- Physicist Steven Kahn elected to AAAS
- November 24, 2015
- 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
- November 20, 2015
- 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
- November 19, 2015
- 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
- November 12, 2015
- 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
- November 11, 2015
- 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
- November 9, 2015
- 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
- November 6, 2015
- 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
- November 5, 2015
- 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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- Stanford professor and eminent French theorist René Girard dies at 91
- November 4, 2015
- A member of the prestigious Académie Française, René Girard was called “the new Darwin of the human sciences.” His many books offered a bold, sweeping vision of human nature, human history and human destiny. He died Nov. 4 at 91. Read more »
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- Novelist warns Stanford audience against utilitarian trends in higher education
- November 3, 2015
- In the 2015 Presidential Lecture in the Arts and Humanities, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson argued that if the American higher education system continues to shift priorities towards training instead of educating, students will be ill-equipped to participate as citizens of a democratic society. Read more »
