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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Stanford University engineer Shanhui Fan envisions a future in which we go beyond simply driving electric cars to being able to drive them on highways that charge the car wirelessly as it barrels down the road.
Although Fan and his Stanford team have shown that a highway system like this is...
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Pity the marine scientist. In the harsh, difficult-to-reach ocean environment, even a simple monitoring experiment is a leap of faith.
"It's a common experience," said Jeffrey Koseff, director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. "You place instruments out there, come back several...
Monday, September 10, 2012
In 2030, if all energy is converted to clean energy, humans will consume about 11.5 terawatts of power averaged over the year, all sources combined. If there is to be a clean-energy economy based on renewable energy, wind power will no doubt have to help meet much of that demand.
In a new study,...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Radiation from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster may eventually cause approximately 130 deaths and 180 cases of cancer, mostly in Japan, Stanford researchers have calculated.
The estimates have large uncertainty ranges, but contrast with previous claims that the radioactive release would...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Responding to a university-wide call for proposals last month, more than 40 individual faculty and small teams outlined plans for innovation in online learning, and around half – from the schools of Humanities and Sciences, Education, Medicine and Engineering – will receive full or partial funding...
Monday, June 25, 2012
A Stanford team with a novel idea finished in the top six of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National University Clean Energy Business Challenge earlier this month.
In May, the Stanford team’s project beat out more than 60 other university teams to win the competition’s western regional...
Friday, June 22, 2012
The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment has awarded five new Environmental Venture Projects (EVP) grants for interdisciplinary research aimed at finding practical solutions to major environmental and sustainability challenges.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Helmut Krawinkler, professor emeritus in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and a leading expert in structural design and earthquake engineering, died at his home in Los Altos, California, on April 16. Krawinkler had undergone surgery for a brain tumor in recent months and...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Politics aside, most energy experts agree that cheap, clean, renewable wind energy holds great potential to help the world satisfy energy needs while reducing harmful greenhouse gases. Wind farms placed offshore could play a large role in meeting such challenges, and yet no offshore wind farms...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The Frederick E. Terman Engineering Center may be gone, but it isn't lost. In fact, you can find bits and pieces of it throughout campus.
According to project manager Matthew Griffis, 99.6 percent of the demolished building on Panama Mall, named for the late Stanford provost, has been diverted from...
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