Leland Scholars Program
This guide contains library resources for Leland Scholars, a three-week program held in August for incoming freshmen.
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Stanford Profiles
Futurity: news from leading research universities
- Bias against hiring African Americans hasn’t budged
- Warm-up could obliterate 33% of Earth’s parasites
- Lots of red meat and poultry linked to diabetes risk
- Antibody treatment cuts flare-ups of tough COPD
- Children on Medicaid have equal chance of cancer survival
- What climate change means for northern, colder cities
- It’s incredibly hard to predict which traits will die out
- In northern China, air pollution cuts years off life expectancy
- Diverse lunch buddies may boost middle school grades
- Ankle fossil says our ancestors were great at leaping
Chemical and Engineering News
- U.S. ag chemical makers back controversial Trump nominee
- DowDuPont amends split plan
- First responders sue Arkema
- Self-folding electronics take shape
- Sanofi ends Zika vaccine research
- Trees with a probiotic boost cleanup of a carcinogen
- What made Arkema’s peroxides unstable in Harvey’s aftermath?
- Technique pinpoints active sites on catalyst surfaces
- Industrial solvent widely found in U.S. drinking water
- U.S. chemical risk program gets mixed review
New Scientist
- Don’t quit now: Why you have more willpower than you think
- Failed electric buses remind us that roads not taken do matter
- Stripy ponds in the Utah desert help green the bone-dry land
- Candy crusher: The man who turned the world against sugar
- Democracy needs an upgrade to ensure it keeps people on its side
- Forensic Architecture: How to make right state wrongs
- Why engineering is a mega job
- How crooks stalled the rise of electric cars for 100 years
- Eight ways to achieve your goals – no willpower required
- Feedback: No more climate change, as US officials ban the phrase
Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- The Selectivity Challenge in Organic Solvent Nanofiltration: Membrane and Process Solutions
- A Review of Biorefinery Separations for Bioproduct Production via Thermocatalytic Processing
- A Single-Molecule View of Genome Editing Proteins: Biophysical Mechanisms for TALEs and CRISPR/Cas9
- Nanoengineering Heterogeneous Catalysts by Atomic Layer Deposition
- Thermophysical Properties and Phase Behavior of Fluids for Application in Carbon Capture and Storage Processes
- Driving Forces for Nonnative Protein Aggregation and Approaches to Predict Aggregation-Prone Regions
- Design and Scaling Up of Microchemical Systems: A Review
- Process Principles for Large-Scale Nanomanufacturing
- Artificially Engineered Protein Polymers
- A Conversation with John McKetta
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Reconstructing Climate from Glaciers
- Researching the Earth—and a Few of Its Neighbors
- Forming Planets via Pebble Accretion
- Statistics of Earthquake Activity: Models and Methods for Earthquake Predictability Studies
- Mission Statement and Introduction
- Interface Kinetics, Grain-Scale Deformation, and Polymorphism
- Autogenic Sedimentation in Clastic Stratigraphy
- Earth's Continental Lithosphere Through Time
- Shape, Internal Structure, Zonal Winds, and Gravitational Field of Rapidly Rotating Jupiter-Like Planets
- Major Questions in the Study of Primate Origins
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
- Related Articles for Volume 47
- The Evolutionary Ecology of Animals Inhabiting Hydrogen Sulfide–Rich Environments
- Is There a Genetic Paradox of Biological Invasion?
- The Phyllosphere: Microbial Jungle at the Plant–Climate Interface
- Forests, Climate, and Public Policy: A 500-Year Interdisciplinary Odyssey
- Ecological Opportunity and Adaptive Radiation
- Evolutionary History, Selective Sweeps, and Deleterious Variation in the Dog
- Structure and Functioning of Dryland Ecosystems in a Changing World
- Mediterranean Biomes: Evolution of Their Vegetation, Floras, and Climate
- Characterizing Species Interactions to Understand Press Perturbations: What Is the Community Matrix?
Annual Review of Environment and Resources
- Who Should Read This Journal?
- Coral Reefs Under Climate Change and Ocean Acidification: Challenges and Opportunities for Management and Policy
- Risk Analysis and Bioeconomics of Invasive Species to Inform Policy and Management
- The Role of Material Efficiency in Environmental Stewardship
- Carbon Lock-In: Types, Causes, and Policy Implications
- Climate Change and Water and Sanitation: Likely Impacts and Emerging Trends for Action
- Environmental Issues in Central Africa
- Major Mechanisms of Atmospheric Moisture Transport and Their Role in Extreme Precipitation Events
- Human–Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence
- Valuing Cultural Ecosystem Services
Annual Review of Marine Science
- Venice and I: How a City Can Determine the Fate of a Career
- The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and Abrupt Climate Change
- Fukushima Daiichi–Derived Radionuclides in the Ocean: Transport, Fate, and Impacts
- Climate, Anchovy, and Sardine
- Quorum Sensing in Marine Microbial Environments
- Multiple Stressors and the Functioning of Coral Reefs
- Introduction
- Plastics in the Marine Environment
- Coccolithophore Cell Biology: Chalking Up Progress
- Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Trends in the Ocean Carbon Sink
Annual Review of Medicine
- Lysosomal Proteins as a Therapeutic Target in Neurodegeneration
- Antimalarial Drugs as Immune Modulators: New Mechanisms for Old Drugs
- Gene Editing: A New Tool for Viral Disease
- CAR T Cell Therapy for Solid Tumors
- Mechanisms and New Strategies for Primary Sjögren's Syndrome
- Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis
- Next-Generation Sequencing and Result Interpretation in Clinical Oncology: Challenges of Personalized Cancer Therapy
- Precision Medicine in Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Leukemias: Lessons from Sequential Mutations
- Toward an Effective Ebola Virus Vaccine
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Update and Future
Annual Review of Nutrition
- Nutrition from the Inside Out
- Genetic Risk Factors for Folate-Responsive Neural Tube Defects
- Metabolic Effects of Intermittent Fasting
- Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease
- Dietary Fat and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Recent Controversies and Advances
- Lipocalin 2: An Emerging Player in Iron Homeostasis and Inflammation
- Brain on Fire: Incentive Salience, Hedonic Hot Spots, Dopamine, Obesity, and Other Hunger Games
- The Best of Times
- Fatty Acids and NLRP3 Inflammasome–Mediated Inflammation in Metabolic Tissues
- Single-Subject Studies in Translational Nutrition Research
Annual Review of Resource Economics
- Introduction
- Media Coverage, Public Perceptions, and Consumer Behavior: Insights from New Food Technologies
- Economics of Coastal Erosion and Adaptation to Sea Level Rise
- Contract Farming in Developed and Developing Countries
- Well-Being Dynamics and Poverty Traps
- The Economics of Obesity and Related Policy
- Predicting Long-Term Food Demand, Cropland Use, and Prices
- Drivers and Impacts of Renewable Portfolio Standards
- Information Recovery and Causality: A Tribute to George Judge
- Forest Management, Public Goods, and Optimal Policies