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STS launched a new Catastrophic Risks and Solutions (CRS) concentration for the 2020-2021 school year!     This concentration allows students to focus on understanding,…
 STS is pleased to announce that Mark Granovetter,  the Joan Butler Ford Professor of Sociology in the School of Humanities and Sciences and longstanding member of the STS…
Article Written by Katie BrownWalter Vincenti, professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, laid the engineering groundwork for flight at the speed of sound and helped…
Article Written by Carrie Spector For years, one of the highest-rated comedy series on television was The Big Bang Theory, a show whose central characters portray “old, tired images of the…
Adam Banks, STS Affiliated Faculty and professor of education in the Graduate School of Education, is the new faculty director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA). In addition…
Cardinal football player CONNOR WEDINGTON has been recognized for service to the community through the organization Hope Given By. Wedington is one of 22 student-athletes and one honorary…
ARTICLE WRITTEN BY TAYLOR KUBOTA"Barely hidden from his study participants, William Jou, a former graduate student in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, pulled off a ruse straight…
Congratulations to Elle Billman, 2019 STS graduate, on winning the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for her thesis, “Uncovering How Childhood Cancer Survivors Learn About…
Congratulations to Isaiah Salinda and Henry Shimp for their success in taking home the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship!  Article written by GoStanford "Few considered 12th-ranked…
Article written by ALEX SHASHKEVICH "As major technology firms race to roll out augmented reality products, Stanford researchers are learning how it affects people’s behavior – in both the physical…
Article Written by STS Affiliated Faculty, Fred Turner"The political vision that brought us to this point emerged in the 1930s, as a response to fascism. In the years before the Second World War,…
Article written by Melissa De Witte"When Stanford professor Jeremy Weinstein was serving as a national security official in the Obama administration, he was struck by how difficult it was…
Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and Society published its Autumn 2018 Journal. Articles include 'Navigating Muslim Identity and Customs in Online Dating', 'Global Challenges…
Congratulations to STS senior, Michelle Bach, for being selected as one of this year’s recipients of the J. E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement!   Established in 2006, this is…
See what STS Alumni and former STS Peer Advisor, Mehraan Keval, has been working on since graduating with a B.A. in Politics and Policy. SIEPR Director Mark Duggan and Mehraan Keval, '18, discuss the…
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