By Laura L. Carstensen December 29, 2017 Laura L. Carstensen is professor of psychology and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. professor in public policy at Stanford University. We hear a lot about aging…
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APS Rising Stars The Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD whose innovative work has already advanced the…
Stanford psychologist recognized with $4 million prize for education research Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck received the inaugural Yidan Prize, honoring her innovative contributions to…
The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., put the spotlight on 200 influential scholars it said did the most to shape educational practice and policy in the past year. Stanford scholars…
New research from the Stanford Center on Longevity shows that the ideal time for life events, such as marriage and home ownership, has remained relatively constant across generations. Millennials –…
Five faculty members from Stanford have been named 2018 Sloan Research Fellows. The fellowships, awarded yearly since 1955, honor early-career scholars whose achievements mark them as among the very…
A new study finds that young children’s brains have not yet fully developed the vision circuits they need to understand words and recognize faces, a finding that could help in understanding how…
Stanford seniors LAUREN KILLINGSWORTH and STEVE RATHJE and MONICA KULLAR, a clinical neuroscience research coordinator, have won 2018 Gates Cambridge Scholarships to pursue graduate studies at the…
Stanford researchers found that U.S. adults who believed that they were less active than their peers died younger than those who believed they were more active – even if their actual activity levels…
Under a new program, Stanford has awarded 20 grants to support innovative initiatives that advance the diversity of the university community and foster inclusion. The Diversity and First-Gen Office…