In the lab and around the world, Stanford scholars are developing life-changing technologies and advancing the frontiers of knowledge.
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A new approach to forecasting toxic metals in wildfire smoke
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Building for Breakthroughs
Stanford researchers work across boundaries to expand what’s known, and what’s possible.
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New scanner brings advanced whole-brain imaging to Stanford
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Team develops AI tool to predict workplace dynamics
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The world’s largest digital camera
Researchers at Stanford and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory built a 3.2-gigapixel camera. Now installed at the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, it ceaselessly snaps photos of the southern night sky to create an ultrawide, ultrahigh-definition time-lapse movie of the universe.
A Legacy of Impact
The internet. Artificial intelligence. MRI. Beating heart transplants. Stanford is where many of the world’s most consequential discoveries have been made, supported by a decades-long research partnership between universities and the federal government.
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Antibody therapies made cancer and autoimmune disease treatments possible.
Recombinant DNA technology laid the foundation for the biotech industry.
Google’s PageRank algorithm revolutionized searching the web.
Internet protocols (TCP/IP) formed the backbone of the modern internet.
Microwave technology made military radar detection, commercial air navigation, and satellite communications possible.
Neural networks and reinforcement learning laid the groundwork for the AI revolution.
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Felix Bloch, Stanford's first Nobel laureate in Physics, 1952.
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Professor John McCarthy shows off computer chess in 1966.
Fueling economic growth
Many of the world’s most innovative and influential companies got their start on the Farm. Companies founded by Stanford alumni boost the U.S. economy, drive job growth, and promote national security and competitiveness.
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Communications companies founded by Stanford alums include Instagram, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and Yahoo!
- Netflix
Entertainment companies founded by Stanford alums include Netflix and YouTube.
- Nike
Retail companies founded by Stanford alums include Gap and Nike.
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Commerce companies founded by Stanford alums include Intuit and PayPal.
- Gilead
Health Sciences companies founded by Stanford alums include Genentech and Gilead.
- Google
Technology companies founded by Stanford alums include Cisco Systems, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Nvidia, and Tableau.
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Call it Practical Alchemy
With seven schools and experts from nearly every field of human inquiry together on one campus, unexpected connections at Stanford are, well, expected.
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A national research laboratory
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At the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy lab operated by Stanford, researchers probe how the universe works at the biggest, smallest, and fastest scales.
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Researchers cut computing heat waste by 60 percent
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Ultrafast electrons reveal unexpected optical signal
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Squeezing solid-state batteries prevents short-circuits
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An independent public policy think tank
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The Hoover Institution, established at Stanford in 1959, seeks to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity. Its world-renowned Library and Archives, founded in 1919 by Stanford alumnus Herbert Hoover, holds more than a million volumes and nearly 7,000 collections pertaining to war, revolution, and peace.
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World-class libraries and archives
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Stanford is home to 21 libraries, each with a vast and easily accessible collection. Holdings encompass hundreds of thousands of rare books, dozens of medieval and early modern manuscripts, hundreds of thousands of photos from Silicon Valley and the Civil Rights Movement, half a million recordings in the Archive of Recorded Sound, well over ten thousand rare maps, globes, and atlases, the archives of Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, and Apple Inc., and much more.
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Stanford’s landmark geoscience collection begins a new chapter
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Digital stewardship at Stanford reaches 20-year milestone
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Meet our faculty
Stanford researchers are laying the foundation for longer, healthier lives and a thriving future for humanity and the planet.
Michelle Monje
Therapies for deadly pediatric brain cancer
Steve Palumbi
Heat-resistant coral to withstand climate change
Renee Zhao
Swimming robots to break up blood clots in the brain
Jason Yeatman
Classroom solutions for kids who struggle to read
Laura Carstensen
Societal solutions for longer lifespans
Mark Skylar-Scott
3D printed hearts and other organs, on demand
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Global Impact
Research collaborations don’t stop at the edge of campus. Students and faculty partner with communities across the Bay Area and around the world to put innovation to work where it’s needed most.
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Solutions around the world
Public health
Whether addressing maternal and child mortality, pollutants in air and water, communicable disease, or the survival of populations in conflict zones, Stanford researchers connect the local and global to forge solutions.
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Drones and AI take flight to combat mosquito-borne disease
As warming temperatures spread dengue to new regions, Stanford researchers are using drones and artificial intelligence to hunt down hidden mosquito breeding sites.
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National security
Stanford research in areas from political science to history to public health bears deeply on national security. So does Stanford innovation: Stanford programs partner with the federal government and with industry to develop new technologies and understand their implications.
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Stanford researchers and Air Force partner to test AI copilots
A flight-simulation platform and in-aircraft testing aim to show how AI could help pilots make safer decisions in emergencies.
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Sustainability
Complex problems require radical collaboration. At Stanford, researchers come together across disciplines to understand Earth’s processes and to innovate for human and planetary health.
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Education
Learning is a social act, a cognitive feat, and a policy challenge. Stanford scholars work with schools, technologists, and community organizations to understand the contexts and drivers of learning – and to measure and improve educational methods and systems.
Academics
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities celebrates 25 years
At Stanford’s Gardner Center in the Graduate School of Education, researchers partner with school districts, local leaders, and communities to turn data into action.
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