Stanford University News

Henry Clever, a University of Kansas senior majoring in mechanical engineering, recently designed Ultramouse, a system of sensors that can be attached behind and beside the head to help a person with disabilities communicate and live more independently.

Today is the half-way mark in Women's History Month, and a great time to explore the Women's Legal History website, created by Law Professor Barbara Babcock and the staff of the Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford University.

An upcoming conference organized by Stanford University's Anscombe Society called "Communicating Values: Marriage, Family & the Media" has been dubbed "hate speech" by the college's graduate-level student government, which refused to allow any of its student fee-funded budget to support the event.

A report released by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes found that the typical student in a Los Angeles charter school gains more learning in a year than his or her district school peer, amounting to about 50 more days of learning in reading and an additional 79 days of learning in math.

The Cypress String Quartet plays the usual Beethoven and Dvorak. But since 2000, the San Francisco-based group has also been on a mission -- to build a "living repertory" by commissioning new works, one per year, generally, from composers it admires.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke at the annual California Republicans convention Saturday as the party faces an uphill battle in a state that has turned more and more blue.

Ladar Levison sits exhausted, slumped on a sofa with his dog Princess on his lap.

Many scientists are of the opinion that genetic and environmental factors are the underlying causes of autism spectrum disorder .

In the coming months, we will be featuring interviews with musicians of various backgrounds.

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Creator Manu Prakash of Stanford University's Prakash Lab wants to inspire a new generation of up-and-coming young scientists.

Four top international climate scientists have published an open letter ahead of the Nov. 11-22 Warsaw confab, strongly encouraging environmentalists to back new forms of nuclear power as a low-carbon energy source that can help stave off the ravages of man-made global warming.

It was quickly apparent to those attending the Antioch School board meeting on Wednesday that it was going to be a hot nighta and not just because of the broken air conditioning.

Legislation backed by the California Police Chiefs Association that requires state prison time for any sentence longer than three years may have city of Fairfield support.

Experts in labor law say Sen. Bob Corker and other Tennessee Republican officials made statements that justify setting aside the recent union election at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga and ordering a new one.

Nearly 200 years after her death, Jane Austen has become one of the most widely read authors in history.

Whether it hails from ancient Egypt or Egypt, Texas, A Coffin in Egypt is anything but old news.

The California Democratic Party's annual convention last weekend exposed some intraparty tensions and produced some soul-searching about its future , but was mostly a celebratory affair .

Poor interpersonal skills and lack of motivation are among the top reasons why new hires fail.

Of all the political battles to wage, why did Northern Virginia's Korean community go to the mat over cartography? Last week's cover story by Mike Paarlberg looked at the statehouse migraine caused by a quixotic campaign to change the "Sea of Japan" to the "East Sea" in Virginia textbooks and what it says about one of the commonwealth's ... (more)