When Robert Wilson rang Paul Milgrom's doorbell at 2:15 this morning, Milgrom's wife, who's in Stockholm, received a security-camera notification on her phone. She got to watch live as Wilson told Milgrom he'd won the #NobelPrize.
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Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi won the Nobel Prize for establishing the field of bioorthogonal chemistry. What is that? Glad you asked …
"I understand the gravity of being a woman and now a #Nobel laureate in the sciences. There aren't that many of us—yet."
Prof. on chemistry, mentorship and representation ⬇️
“I’m the same person I was at 1 a.m., but I’m realizing that my voice now has a platform, and I’m thinking about how to use that.” -, winner of the 2022 #NobelPrize in chemistry
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Congratulations to Professor , winner of the 2022 in Chemistry for her role in the development of bioorthogonal chemistry. stanford.io/3Tf1i9B
"You have 50 minutes to collect yourself and wait until your life changes." - The #Nobel Committee to Prof. , 1:53 a.m.
(Voicemail count at 3 a.m.: 30+.)
“You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math." Fields Medalist Maryam Mirzakhani has died.
"We're enthusiastic about what we do. We like it. And it's exciting. It's a great life to be able to live this way." -Robert Wilson and Paul Milgrom, winners of the 2020 #NobelPrize in economic sciences for their path-breaking discoveries in auction theory
Fifty years ago today, Doug Engelbart of performed the "Mother of All Demos" — the world debut of personal and interactive computing. stanford.io/2Ei0IoQ
"There are too many people who want credit without responsibility. Too many who show up for the ribbon cutting without building anything worth a damn. Be different. Leave something worthy." - #Stanford19
Under a new policy, parents with annual family incomes below $125,000 and typical assets will pay no tuition: stanford.io/1IF569T
Quad goals.
Stanford alumni return to campus on screen and in real life this weekend, all for Reunion Homecoming. Catch the Season 5 premiere of on Sunday at 10/9c, starring , '07, and written by , '06.
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Stanford’s 2021 Commencement ceremonies will feature speeches by two alumni: actress, writer and producer , '07, and surgeon, author and public health leader , '87.
When you take a photo of campus and the nondescript bicyclist in the foreground turns out to be a 5x Olympic gold medalist. (👏 for the helmet.)
.: We must get serious about cybersecurity, be tough on Putin, close legal loopholes, and fight against assault on reason.
She binge watches “Breaking Bad” – and other fun facts about Nobel-winning chemist .
According to our records, a person by this name earned graduate degrees at Stanford more than a decade ago. She is not employed as staff or as a faculty member.
It's been a busy morning for #NobelPrize winner Guido Imbens and his family! After waking everyone up when they heard the news shortly before 3 a.m., told their kids Andrew, Sylvia, and Carleton that they could decide if they wanted to go to school or not today.
Anthony Fauci joins 's Dean Lloyd Minor for a virtual chat on Monday at 10:30 a.m. PT. Watch the conversation here: bit.ly/2CxJUKM
Too many show up for the ribbon cutting without building anything worth a damn. Be different. Leave something worthy. And always remember that you can’t take it with you. You’re going to have to pass it on. - #Stanford19
More than 160 massive open online courses are available, including classes such as Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity, and Language, Proof and Logic.
As part of a new expansion of Stanford’s financial aid program, undergrad families with annual incomes below $100,000 will pay no tuition, room, or board beginning in 2023-24: stanford.io/40JRtFa
Congratulations to Professors Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, winners of the 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. #NobelPrize stanford.io/2H1MOd1
"TV is a tool. The internet is a tool. Social media is a tool. At the end of the day, tools don’t control us. We control them. And we can remake them." -, speaking at Stanford on Thursday
With great regret, Stanford has decided we will not be able to invite undergraduate students to campus for the fall quarter. Almost all undergraduate instruction will be delivered remotely.
Apple CEO to the Class of #Stanford19: If you [get] out of bed every morning and set your watch by what other people expect or demand, it’ll drive you crazy.
Congratulations to Prof. Maryam Mirzakhani, first female recipient of the #FieldsMedal: http://t.co/OAT05AGLS1
Stanford economist Guido Imbens discusses his work, which made it possible to find cause and effect in real-world randomness, with kids Sylvia (10), Andrew (15) and Carleton (17).
Can you win a #NobelPrize in parenting?
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Stanford honored the 2021 @ncaawbb champions with a campus parade a day after the Cardinal beat the Arizona Wildcats for the team’s first national title since 1992.
📸: Andrew Brodhead
Apple CEO , a prominent voice on ethics in technology and business, will be the 2019 commencement speaker at Stanford on Sunday, June 16. stanford.io/2tz0t1f
"Social progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals." #MLK at Stanford in 1967: stanford.io/2MsonEB
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"We have our own national identity, we have our own stories, we have a narrative that isn't the one that Putin is trying to push on us." -Catarina Buchatskiy, '23
"It may well be that we will have to repent ... not merely for the vitriolic words of the bad people and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people, who sit around and say, 'Wait on time.'" - #MLK at Stanford, 1967
"People often define racism as disliking or mistreating others on the basis of race. That definition is wrong. Racism is a system of advantage based on race. It is a hierarchy. It is a pandemic."
Stanford leadership addresses the executive order on immigration, and offers support to members of the community. stanford.io/2kIObkH
Stanford leadership addresses the executive order on immigration, and offers support to members of the community.
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.: "The biggest misconception is that the U.S. is normal" in its handling of opioids. Watch #MedX: stanford.io/2frAthH
“Social progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals.”
#MLK at Stanford in 1967: stanford.io/36bvpWa
In a comeback victory, defeated Oregon in overtime by a score of 38-31. Next up: Notre Dame. #GoStanford
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address is the most popular video on Stanford’s YouTube channel. Watch it here: stanford.io/2KnRQwM
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address is the most popular video on Stanford’s YouTube channel. Watch it here: stanford.io/2KnRQwM
On this day 150 years ago, Stanford's namesake was born. Leland Stanford Jr. was his parents' only son. After he died at age 15 of typhoid fever, they founded a university in his honor, declaring "The children of California shall be our children." stanford.io/2IHrE38
Doctors and engineers at Stanford and Georgia Tech have developed a vibrating glove that could help stroke survivors regain the ability to control their arms and hands.
"You have an opportunity – a responsibility – to leave this world better than how you found it," , '98, told graduating students at Stanford’s 127th Commencement. #Stanford18
“I want us to build a new AI-powered society," says , adjunct professor in computer science.
Congratulations to Stanford’s admitted Class of 2026! Welcome to the Farm! 🌴
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address is the most popular video on Stanford’s YouTube channel. Watch it here: stanford.io/2KnRQwM
Final score: 38, Notre Dame 20. Stanford has also won the Pac-12 North and will compete in the Pac-12 Championship Game against USC on Friday, Dec. 1 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. #GoStanford
An algorithm created by computer science students can quickly detect antisocial users (a.k.a. Internet "trolls"): stanford.io/1Nml7rA
Stanford engineers have taught an autonomous electric DeLorean to drift like a pro driver: stanford.io/2MfPIe6
Congratulations to the 2,040 students representing all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and 63 countries who have been offered admission to the Class of 2022: stanford.io/2pRgb6m
Congratulations to the 2,063 students offered undergraduate admission to the Class of 2020: stanford.io/1UqqNnr
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Therefore, Monday morning we contacted the Department of Education to ask that our application for relief funds under the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund section of the CARES act be rescinded.(5/6)
Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017), "a virtuoso in the dynamics and geometry of complex surfaces," struggled in middle school math before taking off under a more encouraging teacher. "It's so important," she later reflected, "what others see in you." #WomensHistoryMonth
"Even though it may be true that the law cannot change the heart, it can restrain the heartless." #MLK at Stanford in 1967: stanford.io/3nJlpwc
Stanford will expand undergraduate financial aid for 2021-22. Families with incomes below $75,000 and typical assets will pay no tuition, room or board; families with incomes below $150,000 and typical assets will pay no tuition.
In a 1967 speech at Stanford, #MLK described the struggle to make a nation out of what he saw as two Americas—one “overflowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey of opportunity,” another where “work-starved men … find themselves perishing on a lonely island of poverty."
Congratulations to the 2,050 students offered undergraduate admission to the Class of 2021: stanford.io/2nsgf9E
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking in Stanford's Memorial Auditorium, April 14, 1967.
Today marks Stanford's 125th anniversary. Explore a timeline of the university's impact since 1891: stanford.io/2d2eQS6 #Stanford125
Stanford stands in full support of our international community, and encourages the reversal of a new federal visa policy that would prohibit nonimmigrant students from staying in the country if they are taking all of their courses online in the fall.
Donald Kennedy, a neurobiologist who became the eighth president of Stanford in 1980 and helped set the stage for its transformation into one of the nation’s top research universities during his 12 years in office, died today of COVID-19. He was 88.
Misinformation about COVID-19 symptoms and treatment falsely attributed to Stanford is circulating on social media and in email forwards. It is not from Stanford. Official information from Stanford is available at healthalerts.stanford.edu.
It’s the first week of class, and freshmen are showing us their back-to-school setup! Here’s Amara Okoli, from Houston, TX.
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Instead of social distancing, we should all be practicing distant socializing, says. "Loneliness is psychologically poisonous."
#MLK at Stanford in 1967: Without work of dedicated individuals, “time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation.”
.: If you look at the highest levels of success, you find more men, but it's different if you look at society as a whole. There is a vast cohort of young men who are not merely unemployed, but who are out of the workforce. #CardinalConversations
Fulfilling a prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, researchers have reported the first-ever recordings of X-ray emissions from the far side of a black hole.
.@RepJoeKennedy’s message to the Class of 2022: “You’ll spend the next four years trying to get out of Stanford and the rest of your life trying to go back. You’re in for an amazing ride. Enjoy it, savor it. ” #WelcomeToStanford
Words for the start of a new year: "If our optimism doesn't address the problems that affect so many of our fellow human beings, then our optimism needs more empathy." - and , delivering the Commencement address at Stanford in 2014
Adults who played Pokémon videogames extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of Pikachu and other characters from the series, Stanford psychologists have found: stanford.io/2H4USrl
