Professor Block, the S.W. Ascherman Chair of Sciences, is a biophysicist with a passion for all science and a background in both physics and molecular biology; his lab group conducts research on single proteins and nucleic acids using advanced optical methods.
Larry Diamond is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where he directs the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. He is the Faculty Co-Director of the Haas Center for Public Service and author of The Spirit of Democracy and other works on global democratic development.
Professor Ferguson’s research has focused on southern Africa (especially Lesotho, Zambia, South Africa, and Namibia), and has engaged a broad range of theoretical and ethnographic issues. Running through much of his work is a concern with how discourses organized around concepts such as “development” and “modernity” intersect the lives of ordinary people.
Professor Gerritsen is interested in computer simulation and mathematical analysis of engineering processes. She is currently the Director of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (icme.stanford.edu) and specializes in renewable and fossil energy production.
Professor Lipsick’s career as a poet went astray when he found a job at the unemployment office working in a laboratory, fell in love with research, and eventually became obsessed with understanding how mistakes in our own genes cause cancer. He is a professor of Pathology, Genetics, and Biology.
Professor Luhrmann is an anthropologist who studies the way people experience God and also the way people with psychosis experience voices in different cultures. She is the Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins University Professor.
Professor Magnus is Thomas A. Raffin Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics and Professor (Teaching) of Pediatrics, and the Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Bioethics and President of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors.
Professor Matson is a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for Environment, and McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. She teaches and carries out research on a range of sustainability challenges related to food production and global climate change.
Yoshiko Matsumoto is professor of East Asian languages and cultures (and by courtesy, linguistics), and coordinator of the Japanese language program. Her research investigates systems of language in use, from knowledge of grammar to expressions of identity. She is a recipient of the Humanities & Sciences Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Professor Michelson, the Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, is an experimental physicist who leads an international team of physicists and astronomers who have developed and use instrumentation to observe the very high-energy Universe.
Ian Morris is the Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics. He has excavated in Britain, Greece, and Italy, most recently as director of Stanford’s dig at Monte Polizzo, a native Sicilian site from the age of Greek colonization. His book Why the West Rules—For Now (2010) was translated into thirteen languages, and his most recent publication, War! What is it Good For? (2014), was translated into five.
Professor Ober teaches courses and writes books and articles on Greek history, political thought, and what the ancient theory and practice of citizenship could teach leaders of modern organizations. He is the Tsakopoulos Kounalakis Professor in Honor of Constantine Mitsotakis.
Professor Pande is the chair of the Biophysics Program, in addition to being the Director of the Folding@Home distributed computing project. His background is in physics and his research involves using computers and modeling to tackle challenging problems in chemical biology, biophysics, and biomedicine.
Professor Sagan served as a special assistant to the Director of the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before coming to Stanford and is now the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Freeman Spogli Institute.
Professor Skotheim is a cell and systems biologist who was originally trained as an applied mathematician. His research focuses on a variety of problems associated with the diversity of natural forms, including the principles of genetic control of the cell division cycle and size control in individual cells.
Dr. Verghese is a physician who has written two medical memoirs and the New York Times best-selling novel Cutting for Stone. His research focuses on the physician/patient relationship, and the ritual of the bedside exam. He is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor.