This image is of an adult male red Colobus monkey (Piliocolobus badius) in the Kibale National Park, Uganda. This monkey has been tagged as part of an ongoing on NIH research project involving the transmission dynamics and spillover potential of primate retroviruses in forest fragments surrounding Kibale National Park. Combining virology, primatology, epidemiology, ecology, and anthropology, this work is an international collaborative effort with collaborators from Stanford, the University of Wisconsin, CDC, the University of Oregon, McGill, Cambridge, Bristol, and Makerere University.
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James Holland Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology. This research is supported by the NIAID under research project R01AI098420. 
The Stanford Classics Department has a rich history in epigraphy and papyrology. A team was created with expertise in storing, handling, imaging, reading and interpreting ancient Egyptian papyri to digitize and publish online a group of fragments written in Greek. The provenance of the papyri is uncertain, but like many others they could have been found in ancient garbage dumps or mummy wrappings (cartonnage). Hellenistic in origin, nearly all date from 250-150 BCE. Their texts, written in ancient Greek and Demotic, are comprised of: official letters, receipts, accounts, contracts, petitions (including from jail).
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Greek text on papyrus/ Modern Date 194/193 BC /Author: Isodora, Daughter of Protarchos -Stanford University Classics Department Christelle Fischer-Bovet All rights reserved.
Our lab uses the African Cichlid Fish, Haplochromis (Astatotilapia) burtoni, to answer the following questions: How does social experience influence the brain? Male Haplochromis burtoni (CiChild Fish) change social and reproductive state based on their social environment and many physiological changes result from changes in social status. Our research is focused on understanding the mechanisms through which social change is transduced into cellular and molecular changes. We use techniques from behavioral observation to molecular probes to discover how the brain is influenced by social change. To view more images of research at Stanford, copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/ORA/research-images/
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Image contributed by Prof. Russ Fernald http://www.stanford.edu/group/fernaldlab/contact.shtml Photographed by Vincent J. Musi in March 2008.
Our lab uses the African Cichlid Fish, Haplochromis (Astatotilapia) burtoni, to answer the following questions: How does social experience influence the brain? Male Haplochromis burtoni (CiChild Fish) change social and reproductive state based on their social environment and many physiological changes result from changes in social status. Our research is focused on understanding the mechanisms through which social change is transduced into cellular and molecular changes. We use techniques from behavioral observation to molecular probes to discover how the brain is influenced by social change.
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Image contributed by Prof. Russ Fernald http://www.stanford.edu/group/fernaldlab/contact.shtml Photographed by Vincent J. Musi in March 2008.
For decades, high energy experimental physicists have struggled with a fundamental problem: they simply have too much data to analyze quickly and in its entirety. Recognizing this widespread limitation, a team at SLAC is develope a new way of thinking about data access and storage. With new computer software and more efficient types of memory a significant increase in the speed of data analysis is realized. Racks of sever computers are shown in the image.
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SLAC All rights reserved.
Lithium Niobate crystal grown at Stanford. The surface has been melted back revealing the internal crystal structure of this material and a unique multimodal symmetry.
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Prof. Robert S. Feigelson Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials.
The Forma Urbis Romae, or the Severan Marble Plan of Rome is an enormous map, measuring ca. 18.10 x 13 meters (ca. 60 x 43 feet). It was carved between 203-211 CE and covered an entire wall inside the Templum Pacis in Rome. It depicted the ground plan of every architectural feature in the ancient city. The map is a key resource for the study of ancient Rome, but only 10-15% of the map survives, broken into 1,186 pieces. For centuries scholars have tried to match the fragments and reconstruct this great puzzle, but progress is slow--the marble pieces are heavy, unwieldy, and not easily accessible. Now, computer scientists and archaeologists at Stanford are employing digital technologies to try to reconstruct the map. A team from Stanford's Computer Graphics laboratory has been creating digital photographs and 3D models of all 1,186 fragments. This fragment shows part of the Subura, a notorious neighborhood of imperial Rome. It includes a major street, the Clivus Suburanus, as well as alleys, street front shops,apartment buildings, a bathing establishment and a brothel.
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The Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project - http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/ Copryright 2002-03 All rights reserved This project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation under the name Solving the Puzzle of the Forma Urbis Romae.
The Frankencamera named by it creator, Professor Marc Levoy, can produce images that no other single camera can. Professor Levoy wants to fundamentally overhaul digital photography. Researchers in computational photography are excited too, Ramesh Raskar, a Professor at MIT, says that Levoy is essentially expanding the tool-set of photographers. "Right now photography is about one brush on canvas," he says. "But once you give individuals control over timing, wavelength, aperture and motion, it's like giving freedom to an artist. This will hopefully create the next generation of digital art."
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Image by Marc Levoy Professor of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering Stanford University.
The image is a display of streamlines of blood flow in the heart and lungs. By combining innovative techniques that includes novel radio-frequency hardware, new magnetic resonance pulse sequences, and iterative reconstruction algorithms, researchers at the Departments of Radiology, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics are enabling children to quickly get diagnosed without traditional lengthy and/or invasive studies.
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Vasanawala Advanced Pediatric MRI Group.
Is this Stanford Universities first research project? Was there a moment midstride when horses had all hooves off the ground? Leland Stanford, the railroad baron and future university founder, bet there was—or at least that’s the story. It was 1872 when Stanford hired noted landscape photographer Eadweard Muybridge to figure it out. It took years, but Muybridge delivered: He rigged a racetrack with a dozen strings that triggered 12 cameras. Muybridge not only proved Leland Stanford right but also set off the revolution in motion photography that would become movies. Biographer Rebecca Solnit summed up his life: “He is the man who split the second, as dramatic and far-reaching an action as the splitting of the atom.”
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Galloping Horse by Eadweard Muybridge, 1878.
Organic electronics are considered a leading candidate to form transparent and flexible electronics, but are currently limited by a low rate of charge transport in transistors. We have been able to show that a solution processing technique known as solution shearing can increase the rate of charge transport by changing the molecular packing of the organic semiconductors. The image represents the organic semiconductor molecule TIPS-pentacene deposited by a solution shearing process. The change in film morphology is accompanied by a change in the molecular packing of the TIPS-pentacene, through the straining of the TIPS-pentacene unit cell lattice. This strained lattice TIPS-pentacene, when used in a thin film transistor, shows an increased charge transport rate beyond what has been seen previously. Solution shearing is a general method of increasing charge transport by straining organic semiconductors, and can help bring flexible, transparent electronics to the forefront of novel electronics.
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Gaurav Giri Professor Bao Zhenan Chemical Engineering Stanford University All rights reserved.
These are Adelie Penguins standing on an iceberg that has most likely calved from the Larsen Ice Shelf, one of Antarctica’s rapidly disintegrating floating ice shelves in the Weddell Sea. This photograph is from just offshore Paulet Island, Antarctica, home to one of the world’s largest Adelie Penguin colonies (more than 1 million birds!).
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Rob Dunbar Professor in Environmental Earth System Science.
This computer simulated image shows the formation of two high density regions (yellow) in the early universe. The cores are expected to evolve into a binary or "twin" star system.
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Image courtesy Ralf Kaehler, Matthew Turk, and Tom Abel Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Stanford University All rights reserved.
As they descend seeds of maples generate unexpectedly high lift, but how they attain this elevated performance is unknown. To better understand this measured the three-dimensional flow around dynamically scaled models of maple and hornbeam seeds. Our results indicate that these seeds attain high lift by generating a stable leading-edge vortex (LEV) as they descend. LEVs also explain the high lift generated by hovering insects, bats, and possibly birds, suggesting that the use of LEVs represents a convergent aerodynamic solution in the evolution of flight performance in both animals and plants.
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David Lentink, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
