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Thursday, March 3, 2016
MS&E Professor Eesley and PhD student Jamber Li published new study titled Does Institutional Change in Universities Influence High-Tech Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China’s Project 985. Abstract
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Nick Bambos has been appointed as the Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering.  
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
In a historic December 2015 Paris accord, nearly every country on Earth agreed to take steps to keep the rise in global temperatures to “well below two degrees Celsius,” according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).  Can we do it?
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
The hit film, The Big Short, dramatically illustrated what many of us lived through in the subprime mortgage meltdown of 2008-2009: the downside of a system that relies on highly complex financial instruments, such as mortgage-backed securities, when no one fully understands their associated risks...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
For a few years now, Big Data has been the belle of the social scientist’s ball—allowing study of human behavior at a previously unheard of scale. But according to new MS&E Professor Johan Ugander, who joined the faculty this past fall, Big Data will have to share the limelight with what he...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
MS&E Assistant Professor Sharad Goel, along with visiting scholar Ravi Shroff and MS&E Graduate Students, Sam Corbett-Davis and Camelia Simoiu  use computational analysis tools to scrape information from police-related incidents to reveal discrimination and reduce crime. Stanford News...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
The social cost of carbon dioxide emissions may not be $37 per ton, as estimated by a recent U.S. government study, but $220 per ton.
Friday, February 5, 2016
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William J. Perry (center) speaks at a press conference announcing the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' latest "doomsday clock" estimates, as former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Schultz (left) and California Governor Jerry Brown (right) look on.Read more.
Friday, January 8, 2016
Stanford nuclear policy experts say North Korea's recent bomb test was an important step forward for its nuclear program and would have a destabilizing effect on the entire region.  Read More
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Congratulations to MS&E's Ben Van Roy, who was named an INFORMS Fellow at the recent INFORMS National Meeting for his contributions to decision making in stochastic systems and approximate dynamic programming.  The INFORMS Fellow designation recognizes outstanding lifetime achievement in ...

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