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New Stanford graduate fellowship named for Maryam Mirzakhani
Read more about this storyStanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences has received an $800,000 gift from distinguished engineers and entrepreneurs Dr. Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard and Anousheh Ansari to establish a graduate fellowship in honor of mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani.
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Meeting showcases women in data science
Read more about this storyIn sharp contrast to the all-male panels that dominate technical meetings, Margot Gerritsen organized a data science conference with only female speakers. More than 170 events in 53 countries held in parallel brought women data scientists together worldwide.
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Stanford plans new Hong Kong overseas studies program
Read more about this storyA new Bing Overseas Studies Program in Hong Kong will open in 2019. From their home base in Hong Kong, Stanford students may also get the opportunity to pursue other academic and cultural offerings, including internships in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
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Alumnus Jelani Munroe, a Rhodes Scholar, found his voice and purpose at Stanford
Read more about this storyJelani Munroe, an international student from Jamaica who discovered a passion for economics and public policy on the Farm, also developed his singing voice with Stanford Talisman through performances on campus, and on tour in the United States and in South Africa.
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Stanford Stegner Fellows lead and influence with words
Read more about this storyHundreds of fellows have contributed to the best writing of our time, and millions have read their work.
 
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Students cultivate positive connection with land through new course
Read more about this storyIn a new course at the Stanford Educational Farm, students develop a positive relationship with the land through organic gardening while addressing the history of forced farm labor in the U.S. and its enduring, traumatic effects on communities of color.
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Armed drones changing conflict faster than anticipated, Stanford scholar finds
Read more about this storyEvolving drone technology will enable countries to make low-cost but highly credible threats against states and groups that do not possess drones, Stanford political scientist Amy Zegart found in new research.
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A winding road brought Sughra Ahmed, associate dean for religious life, to Stanford
Read more about this storySughra Ahmed, who has spent most of her adult life building cross-faith and cross-cultural bridges between individuals and communities in the United Kingdom, joined the Stanford community as associate dean for religious life in November 2017.
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Stanford launches new energy research program in collaboration with industry
Read more about this storyThe Stanford Strategic Energy Alliance will facilitate research and educational relationships between faculty members and companies with shared scholarly interests. The program will be managed by the Precourt Institute for Energy, co-directed by Sally Benson and Arun Majumdar.
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Three at Stanford win 2018 Gates Cambridge Scholarships
Read more about this storyLauren Killingsworth, Steven Rathje and Monica Kullar will pursue graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England.