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A team of scientists from Stanford and Mexico developed advanced versions of the algorithms used to reveal people’s ancestries to show how Polynesian mariners crossed a vast ocean.

Stanford Data Science invite applications for a tenure-track appointment at the assistant professor or untenured associate professor level in the School of Engineering.

New technologies that detect motion in the Earth’s crust are emerging in surprising places and reshaping our understanding of earthquakes.

Equipped with grippy but not sticky gecko-inspired adhesives, the robotic gripper could be particularly well-suited for tasks such as collecting debris and servicing satellites.

A chemical engineering professor discusses how he learned to be a better educator: "I love supporting my graduate students and helping move them along their way."

A geneticist explains why biology, a field once thought relatively removed from mathematics, is quickly becoming a hotbed of computational science.

A group of scholars discuss how medicine, artificial intelligence, criminology, and other fields can better understand and anticipate bias and the ways it manifests in society.

A civil and environmental engineer describes how engineering is designing better built environments that shape rather than bend to the will of the wind.

The Turing Award-winning computer scientist discusses his path to Stanford and how his approach to working with students is informed by his work with the cofounder of Pixar.

An aptitude for athletics helped transform a professor of management science and engineering from a rice farmer during China’s Cultural Revolution into a world-renowned scholar.