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- May 06, 2021
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Four Stanford scholars on motherhood and academia
- A short video featuring Sarah Heilshorn, Polly Fordyce, Jennifer Dionne and A-lan Holt
- May 04, 2021
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Maneesh Agrawala: How AI is changing video editing
- Technology is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in video editing. Instead of fretting about the risks, society should embrace the possibilities.
- May 03, 2021
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Noah Rosenberg: How biology is becoming more mathematical
- A geneticist explains why biology, a field once thought relatively removed from mathematics, is quickly becoming a hotbed of computational science.
- April 30, 2021
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India’s covid-19 crisis is a dire warning for all countries
- The covid-19 crisis in India is a warning for countries around the globe and highlights the need to work on vaccine equity
- April 26, 2021
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BioE student Mira Moufarrej wins Lemelson-MIT prize
- Awards
- April 22, 2021
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Meagan Mauter: How freshwater supply is becoming more circular
- An expert in freshwater systems says the world’s pending water crisis is only just beginning, but it’s not too late to make the course correction necessary to right the ship.
- April 22, 2021
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Ram Rajagopal: How the grid is becoming more human-centric
- An expert in the future of electrical power says that today’s big “dumb” grid is becoming a thing of the past and what’s replacing it is something much smarter and more personal.
- April 07, 2021
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Anthony Kinslow: How to close the clean-energy divide
- An engineer and clean-energy entrepreneur discusses the troubling socio-economic gap in access to sustainable energy and the things we can do now to narrow and, perhaps, close it.
- April 05, 2021
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The School of Engineering bestows staff awards
- The school recognizes recipients of awards for citizenship, client services, innovation, diversity and inclusion, leadership, and its highest staff honor, the Shah Award.
- April 01, 2021
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Kunle Olukotun: How to make AI more democratic
- A chip designer talks about how advances in hardware will be needed to make the much-hyped artificially intelligent future a reality.
- March 23, 2021
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Josh Makower named new director of Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign
- Stacey McCutcheon
- March 17, 2021
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A scholar shows how a rapid-response vaccine could stop pandemics
- James Swartz has spent a dozen years refining an under-appreciated biotech technique into a radical new vaccine approach that could quickly protect billions from the next pandemic.
- March 16, 2021
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Julie Owono: How local voices will shape the global internet
- An expert in international law and digital content explains why she thinks the future of the worldwide internet is very much in local hands.
- March 08, 2021
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The long – and very, very short – journey to the COVID-19 vaccines
- Bioengineering Professor Markus Covert explains the history of vaccines — and the science that produced new COVID-19 vaccines in record time.
- March 03, 2021
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Fantastic voyage: Nanobodies could help CRISPR turn genes on and off
- Stanford researchers attached biological nanobodies to the CRISPR DNA editing tool in an experimental combo designed to extend the usefulness of two promising molecular tools.
- February 22, 2021
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Riitta Katila: How diversity drives innovation
- An expert in entrepreneurship argues that greater diversity is the key to corporate creativity.
- February 15, 2021
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AIMBE Elects 2021 Fellows
- Drew Endy & Fan Yang elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in medical and biological engineering.
- Awards
- February 09, 2021
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David Miller: How light could transform computing
- An expert in photonics explains the remarkable potential of using light instead of electricity in computation.