By solving how whooper swans keep their heads steady during flapping flight, Stanford engineers have developed a camera suspension system that could allow drones to produce crisper video images.
Building on the success of its first year, the Innovation Transfer Program at the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy is financially supporting 11 new teams comprised mostly of Stanford students and recent graduates trying to put university research to work.
PhD student Anne Sanquini studies how to motivate people to take action to protect homes and schools against earthquakes. She was in Nepal when the temblor hit.
Musicologist Nate Sloan's investigation of Harlem Renaissance jazz portrays a diverse, multisensory experience where music, place and race influenced each other in profound and lasting ways.
Soros Fellowships provide financial support for study in any degree-granting graduate program in any field at any U.S. university. Fellows are immigrants and the children of immigrants who are chosen for their creativity, initiative and sustained accomplishment.
The Graduate School of Business christened its new home, the Knight Management Center, with a formal dedication ceremony followed by a celebration in the school's new Town Square.
Stanford Classics in Theater has re-translated Aristophanes' nearly 2,500-year-old comedy The Wasps into a modern-day tale of American politics gone haywire.
An award-winning interactive display created by Stanford students is rapidly gaining notice for its imaginative approach to teaching children engineering design.
