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Wim de Wit, adjunct curator of architecture and design at the Cantor Arts Center, talks about his favorite object inside Creativity on the Line: Design for the Corporate World, 1950–1975, an exhibition of iconic and transformational innovations. The collection is on view at the Cantor through August 21.
Your fitness tracker says you just burned 300 calories in 25 minutes. Should you believe it? Probably not, a new Stanford School of Medicine study suggests.
The number of Americans engaged in research & development has increased more than twentyfold since 1930, but it's getting harder and harder to make new ideas: http://stnfrd.io/PK0i
Four Stanford scholars respond to the U.S. withdrawal from the #ParisAgreement. The experts discuss the decision's broad implications for human welfare and the environment, and lament the U.S.' loss of agency in guiding some of the most important research and policy this planet has ever considered. http://stnfrd.io/hp8j
An artist typically completes a work of art before it enters a museum, but for 10 days in May, Hope Gangloff turned the Cantor Arts Center into a living studio. During her residency, a few thousand visitors watched as Gangloff painted her friend Tammy Fortin’s portrait, using acrylic on a wood panel, as Fortin typed a short story on a Lettera.
Gangloff’s paintings are on view on the interior balcony of Cantor’s 1894 Atrium through early 2018. A related exhibition, Hope Gangloff Curates Portraiture, drawn by Gangloff from the Cantor’s historical works, will be shown through September 24. http://stanford.io/2qIbLNW
If you want to convince someone to be more philanthropic, try to match their facial expressions. Mimicking a person's smile or stoic expression can increase the likelihood that they will give more profoundly than previously identified influencing factors, such as common race or sex.
Doctoral candidate Ethan Ris is interviewing David Labaree about his new book, “A Perfect Mess,” which chronicles the rise of the American higher education system. Join the conversation by commenting with any questions you have for Professor Labaree.
Stanford University was live.
What will the future of protein taste like? Russ Altman finds out on the Future of Everything when he takes a bite of an artificial hamburger, served up by Patrick Brown, Stanford Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus, and founder of Impossible Foods.
The full episode will air in June on SiriusXM Channel 121.
The views expressed are those of the participants, and don’t reflect those of Stanford.
Art is everywhere on campus, starting with Auguste Rodin's Burghers of Calais at the entrance to the Main Quad. These bronze sculptures depict an episode from the Hundred Years’ War during which six leaders of the French port Calais surrendered to stop England’s siege on their town. The Cantor Arts Center holds more than 200 Rodin works and archival materials in its collection, the majority of which entered between 1974-1992 and were gifts from Iris and B. Gerald Cantor and the Cantor Foundation.
Hope Gangloff has turned the 1894 Atrium at the Cantor Art Center into her studio, painting portraits that will hang in the atrium's balcony. This glimpse inside the New York-based artist’s process is part of the first iteration of Cantor’s Diekman Contemporary Commissions Program, an exhibition series that invites artists to use the museum as a laboratory for experimentation. Gangloff has also curated a portraiture exhibition at Cantor placing historical works from the museum’s collection alongside her own contemporary work.
Photo by Angela Drury http://stnfrd.io/vn4T
Stanford University was live.
Choreographer Alex Ketley and dancers Cora Cliburn, '19, and PhD candidate Glory Liu rehearse No Hero, a multimedia dance work — a documentary film with live dance performance — featuring and inspired by the stories of strangers throughout the rural American West. Ketley, a lecturer in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies, and dancers will perform the piece in Roble Dance Studio May 25-27.
A groundbreaking ceremony at the site of Stanford's future Redwood City campus marked the university’s first major expansion from the original campus in more than 125 years.
Mapping autism, in the United States and around the world, could be an important step toward improving diagnosis and treatment in underserved areas.
Stanford Taiko started in 1992, after two undergraduate students secured a research grant to construct a single drum. Some 25 years later, the beat goes on. http://stanford.io/2pSmyo2
Congratulations to the women's water polo team, who won the NCAA championship today 8-7 over UCLA. A last-minute goal sealed the victory, which was the team's fifth in the past seven years. The win was also Stanford's 113th NCAA team title, and puts us in a tie for most all time. #GoStanford
Researchers at the Stanford School of Engineering are developing technology that could make it possible to control drug levels in the body in real time.
