News & Updates
Dill and Bienenstock Elected Members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Friday, April 26, 2013
Two faculty members at the School of Engineering join one of the country's oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies.
New Battery Design Could Help Solar and Wind Energy Power the Grid
Friday, April 26, 2013
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid.
DARPA Grant Will Help Stanford Dig Deep into the Big Data in Social Networks
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Backed by a $5.6 million grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an interdisciplinary team at Stanford is embarking on a four-year project to better understand and model complex communication patterns in social networks in real time.
Big questions for big data: Stanford’s Jure Leskovec
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Assistant Professor Jure Leskovec uses information collected from sites like Twitter, Wikipedia and Facebook to tackle big questions about how society works.
Stanford Names Dominate Association for Computing Machinery Awards
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Two faculty members and four alumni are among those named as winners of prestigious ACM Awards in computer science.
Getting CLARITY: Hydrogel process developed at Stanford creates transparent brain
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Stanford bioengineers have transformed an intact, post-mortem mouse brain into a transparent three-dimensional structure that keeps all the fine wiring and molecular structures in place. Known as CLARITY, the technique stands to transform our understanding of the brain and indeed of any biological tissue.
Duct Tape, Empathy, and Radical Collaboration: A Tool Kit for Changing the World
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
A class brings together students from across Stanford to create and build products for some of the world's poorest people.
Tickets go on sale for TEDxStanford 2013, set to the beat of breakthrough innovation
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Tickets will be available at 9 a.m. April 8 at the Stanford Ticket Office.
Stanford to collaborate with edX to develop a free, open source online learning platform
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
EdX will be available as an open source learning platform on June 1. In support of that move, Stanford will integrate features of its existing Class2Go open source online learning platform into the edX platform.
President Obama's new $100 million brain research initiative taps several Stanford scientists
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which calls for initial federal funding of $100 million, will make use of several innovative technologies invented by Stanford scientists.
Global solar photovoltaic industry is likely now a net energy producer, Stanford researchers find
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The construction of the photovoltaic power industry since 2000 has required an enormous amount of energy, mostly from fossil fuels. The good news is that the clean electricity from all the installed solar panels has likely just surpassed the energy going into the industry's continued growth, Stanford researchers find.
The world through rose-colored blinders: A new mathematical model for how society becomes polarized
Friday, March 29, 2013
Engineering researchers at Stanford University have devised a mathematical model that helps demonstrate what’s behind the growing rift in American society. They have used the knowledge to create Internet-based social systems that counteract polarization.
Construction begins for Stanford's student-designed solar house
Thursday, March 28, 2013
The solar-powered Start.Home, designed and built by Stanford students, runs on a standardized platform that students believe could transform green home construction.
Biological transistor enables computing within living cells
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
A team of Stanford University bioengineers has taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology. They have developed a biological transistor made from genetic material — DNA and RNA. The team calls its invention the “transcriptor.”
New type of solar structure cools buildings in full sunlight
Monday, March 25, 2013
A Stanford team has designed an entirely new form of cooling panel that works even when the sun is shining. Such a panel could vastly improve the daylight cooling of buildings, cars and other structures by radiating sunlight back into the chilly vacuum of space.
Video: Stanford Solar Decathlon construction site
Friday, March 22, 2013
In a competition that could help transform the homebuilding industry, Stanford students bring a new approach to creating solar houses that can be easily manufactured.
Mung Chiang, Engineering Alumnus, Wins NSF's Waterman Award
Friday, March 22, 2013
This annual award from NSF is the country’s highest award for scientists and engineers under age 35. Chiang completed his doctorate at Stanford in 2003 and now teaches at Princeton. He develops methods for improving wireless networks.
Battle of the 'bots – Stanford students' robots duel amid raucous cheers
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Best finals project ever? Students in the Introduction to Mechatronics course build robots to do battle, sumo wrestler-style, to display their mastery of combining mechanical, electrical and computer engineering skills.
Materials Scientists Make Solar Energy Chip 100 Times More Efficient
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Scientists working at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) have improved an innovative solar-energy device to be about 100 times more efficient than its previous design in converting the sun's light and heat into electricity.
Stanford students present visions for the future of driving
Monday, March 18, 2013
At the first Big Idea Festival for Automotive Interfaces—sponsored in part by the the Center for Automotive Research and the REVS program at Stanford—students propose new driving technologies ranging from a gesture-based steering wheel to one that lets you to drive your car from your couch.
Ken Goodson named new chair of Stanford mechanical engineering
Thursday, March 14, 2013
First new department chair in 10 years is an expert in heat transfer in electronic nanostructures.
Online learning: Will technology transform higher education?
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Some of the nation’s online education pioneers debated technology’s impact on higher education at a symposium held in conjunction with the National Academy of Engineering regional meeting at Stanford.
A high-resolution endoscope as thin as a human hair
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Engineers at Stanford have developed a prototype single-fiber endoscope that improves the resolution of these much-sought-after instruments fourfold over existing designs. The advance could lead to an era of needle-thin, minimally invasive endoscopes able to view features out of reach of today’s instruments.
After another near miss, Stanford professor wants to find asteroids that threaten Earth
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Several large asteroids have zipped dangerously close to Earth in the past month. Scott Hubbard is part of a team that plans to track down future threats.
Stanford's GCEP will award $6.6 million for novel energy research
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Global Climate and Energy Project will award $6.6 million for research that leads to cleaner fuels and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
