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 –…
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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…
At a time when state and federal governments are debating initiatives that would keep some social groups isolated – such as transgender individuals and immigrants – a Stanford psychologist finds that…
Each year, the British Academy elects to its Fellowship up to 52 outstanding UK-based scholars who have achieved distinction in any branch of the humanities and social sciences. Others based overseas…
Our brains seem better at predictions than we are. A part of our brain becomes active when it knows something will be successfully crowdfunded, even if we consciously decide otherwise. If this finding…
Gordon H. Bower, the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, is a well-known cognitive psychologist. In his six-part oral history Gordon Bower traces the evolution of his career from his…