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| Sep 1, 2026 | Justice Department sues Kansas school system over policies on transgender students | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ANNIE MA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the school system in Kansas City, Kansas, over its policies on transge... |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Postal Service work to comply with Trump’s executive order is rushed, sloppy, whistleblower contends | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI
The U.S. Postal Service is poised to launch a hastily built, error-riddled computer system that could jeopardize the process of mail voting relied upon by one-third of all vote... |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Judge sides with Stanford Daily, says Trump administration violated Constitution | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration unconstitutionally tried to suppress the free speech of noncitizen students who spoke out against Israel’s actions in the war in Gaza by threaten... |
| Jan 20, 2026 | State Department: Detaining People For Social Media Activity Is ‘Paranoid’ And Sign Of An ‘Illegitimate Regime’ (Unless We Do It) | You really can’t make this stuff up.
On Friday, the State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs posted to Twitter/X condemning Nicaragua’s government for—and I quote—”detaining Nicaraguans for liking posts online,” calling it ev... |
| Apr 15, 2025 | As Columbia Folds, Harvard Shows What Institutional Courage Looks Like | The first few months of the Trump administration have seen a quick divergence between those who are quick to bend the knee to unconstitutional, authoritarian, censorial demands from Donald Trump, and those with the spine to actually stand u... |
| Jun 6, 2024 | Israel confirms that it backs cease-fire plan, US says. But fighting won’t stop yet | The latest proposed cease-fire deal drawing skepticism in Israel really did come from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and has its approval, a Biden administration official said Wednesday.
“Israel’s a raucous democracy, so the... |
| Apr 25, 2024 | Xaira Therapeutics: A Billion-Dollar Bet on AI Drug Discovery | In the fast-paced world of tech and biotech, Xaira Therapeutics emerges as a powerhouse with a massive $1 billion in funding. Led by CEO Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a former Stanford president and Genentech chief scientific officer, Xaira is read... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Xaira, an AI drug discovery startup, launches with a massive $1B, says it’s ‘ready’ to start developing drugs | Advances in generative AI have taken the tech world by storm. Biotech investors are making a big bet that similar computational methods could revolutionize drug discovery.
On Tuesday, ARCH Venture Partners and Foresite Labs, an affiliate of... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | New AI drug discovery powerhouse Xaira rises with $1B in funding | If you asked an AI to generate a brand-new drug discovery biotech with a team of some of the biggest names in the biz for you, it couldn’t dream up one like Xaira Therapeutics.
The company emerged Tuesday with $1 billion in committed fundin... |
| Dec 23, 2023 | This week in AI: AI ethics keeps falling by the wayside | Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on th... |
| Dec 12, 2023 | US college campuses have embraced the Palestinian cause like never before. The story began six decades ago | Jenny Jarvie | (TNS) Los Angeles Times
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was best known for its sit-ins against segregation in the Deep South. But in the summer of 1967, the civil rights group used its newsletter to weigh in on ... |
| Nov 9, 2023 | The promise of collective superintelligence | VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed - An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. Reserve your free pass
The word “superintelligence” is thrown around a lot these days, referring to AI ... |
| Aug 10, 2023 | Insiders bet more on Fizz, a social network that has now bubbled up at 80+ college campuses | Fizz, a burgeoning social network established by two Stanford dropouts, captured the attention and interest of Stanford University students early on with its approach to anonymity and engagement. Now the two-year-old platform is gaining tra... |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Critics and defenders weigh in on Stanford president’s resignation after research investigation | After Stanford University president and prominent neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced he would resign following an investigation into his research, the scientific community did what it always does with new results: engage in a rob... |
| Jul 19, 2023 | Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research | In an abrupt turn, Stanford president and renowned neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday that he will step down as the university’s leader. His resignation came after he learned the results of an extensive investigation in... |
| Jul 19, 2023 | Stanford medical residents call for better pay in first contract since unionizing | Stanford Health Care's resident physicians — who unionized last year — have scheduled a rally in front of the hospital Wednesday to demand improved pay, working conditions and care standards as they continue to negotiate their first contrac... |
| Jul 5, 2023 | AI-related classes have doubled at Stanford over the past five years — showing just how fast it's taking over | At Stanford University, students and professors have gone all-in on AI. David Madison/Getty Images
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Stanford students say interest in generative AI has already surpassed the crypto hype.
Enrollment in existing classes on artificia... |
| May 1, 2023 | Expansive investigation into Stanford president’s past research will be ‘substantially complete’ by mid-July | An investigation by a special committee of Stanford’s board of trustees into alleged scientific misconduct by Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the university’s president and a prominent neuroscientist, has involved “hundreds of hours of meetings and w... |
| Apr 27, 2023 | The NFL draft is coming. If your team drafts a 'franchise' quarterback in the first round, brace for failure | Sports The NFL draft is coming. If your team drafts a 'franchise' quarterback in the first round, brace for failure
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| Apr 19, 2023 | Education
Education | Confessions of a college counselor: Pushy parents, teen misery and the futility of the Stanford dream | In Irena Smith’s memoir about working on the front lines of America’s college admissions mania, the Palo Alto-based independent college admissions counselor recalls how she made a ninth-grader cry.
Smith told the boy and his mother that he ... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Genentech review of Tessier-Lavigne paper finds no evidence of fraud — but hints at a different misconduct case | South San Francisco biotech Genentech on Thursday announced that an internal review of misconduct allegations concerning a landmark 2009 paper co-authored by Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a former top executive at the company and Stanford Universit... |
| Mar 18, 2023 | Who is Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor and PayPal cofounder who says he had $50 million in Silicon Valley Bank when it collapsed? | Peter Thiel is worth about $8 billion, per Bloomberg's Billionaire Index. John Lamparski/Getty Images
Billionaire Peter Thiel said he had $50 million in Silicon Valley Bank when it collapsed.
With a net worth of $8 billion, he's among Silic... |
| Mar 1, 2023 | Elite Colleges Hike Tuition 4% Or More | Duke University will increase its published tuition by 4.9% for next year. Several other elite ... [+] institutions are announcing similar increases.getty |
| Feb 10, 2023 | Self-Paced Online Manifestation Course For Goal-Oriented Professionals Launched | Meditating Human
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Meditating Human launched an online Manifestation course that helps professionals achieve their goals.
Meditating Human teaches subliminal messaging or the practice ... |
| Feb 1, 2023 | ChatGPT Coined ‘B***Generator’ by Princeton Computer Science Professor | Ryan Epps, Tech Times 01 February 2023, 07:02 am
ChatGPT is no stranger to headlines, making a name for itself over the course of the last several months with some stellar topics. The artificial intelligence, which is built upon OpenAI's GP... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | Microsoft New ‘Multiyear Multibillion Dollar’ Partnership With OpenAI Hones in on ChatGPT | Ryan Epps, Tech Times 24 January 2023, 11:01 am
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On the heels of a rather pressing layoff spree, seeing a total of 10,000 employees go set across some of the firm's largest departments, Microsoft is siphon... |
| Jan 12, 2023 | More than Gaming: How Generation Esports Fosters Community Engagement and Academic Success | David Thompson, Tech Times 12 January 2023, 02:01 pm
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When gaming systems made their way into homes in the 70s, who knew that those friendly Space Invaders competitions with the neighborhood kids would evolve int... |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Science, Cell issue notices of concern on challenged papers co-authored by Stanford president | The leading journals Science and Cell on Thursday issued “expressions of concern” on papers co-authored by Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who is under investigation over allegations of research misconduct.
Tessier-Lavig... |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Sam Bankman-Fried's parents are reportedly in the Bahamas with him, and his father pushed a Stanford law class he was set to teach to the next semester | Sam Bankman-Fried's parents are living with him in the Bahamas, WSJ reports.
His father reportedly pushed a law class he was set to teach to the spring semester, while his mother isn't scheduled to teach next year.
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| Dec 8, 2022 | Amid criticism, Stanford turns over review of its president to outside investigator | Stanford University has hired an outside law firm to lead the investigation of its president over allegations of research misconduct, a decision that comes in the wake of criticisms over potential conflicts of interest in the school’s inter... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | New concerns about a paper co-authored by Stanford president prompt journal to take a ‘closer look’ | The journal Cell is opening its own review of research co-authored by Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, following new allegations about an altered image in a 1999 paper.
Minor concerns had been raised about alleged alterat... |
| Dec 2, 2022 | Image manipulation in science is suddenly in the news. But these cases are hardly rare | In 2004, Mike Rossner and Kenneth Yamada, two top editors at the Journal of Cell Biology, wrote an editorial alerting readers to what they saw as an emerging problem in science: Thanks to Photoshop, researchers could prettify the images in ... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | ‘This actually changes everything’: Altered image in 1999 paper raises potential peril for Stanford president | New findings of altered images in research co-authored by Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne add to the weight of allegations against him, according to experts on research misconduct.
On Tuesday, Stanford announced an invest... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Stanford is investigating its president over allegations of research misconduct | Stanford University has opened an investigation into its president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a renowned neuroscientist and former biotech executive, for research misconduct after experts alleged papers on which he was an author included altere... |
| Nov 23, 2022 | College social app Fizz is growing fast – maybe too fast | Things are bleak in the tech sphere as we close out a year defined by plummeting stocks, persistent mass layoffs and a fall from grace for major social media companies. Yet Stanford dropout Teddy Solomon’s story of co-founding Fizz is so re... |
| Oct 2, 2022 | Education in the metaversity: A win-win for educators and students | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
The “metaversity,” as coined by educators, is changing the world our graduates will enter and is already changing our t... |
| Sep 2, 2022 | Elon Musk subpoenaed Stanford, which he attended for 2 days back in 1995 before dropping out, over an 'email account,' according to his lawyer | Elon Musk's legal team subpoenaed Stanford University on Wednesday in its Twitter court battle.
Musk's attorney said the legal team was requesting "information regarding an email account."
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| Nov 19, 2021 | No, I will not help your company that’s actively hurting employees of color | Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning.
A recruiter emailed me recently about an open Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) position at a well-known tech company. They asked if a... |
| Nov 11, 2021 | Stanford University Extends Test-Optional Admissions For Another Year | For the third year in a row Stanford University will use a test-optional admissions policy. (Photo ... [+] by David Butow/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images |
| Oct 13, 2021 | Edtech Curious Cardinals Taps College Students for Mentorship and Expands the Notion of What a Course Can Be | Audrey Wisch was teaching English to a member of Stanford's custodial staff who didn't speak English when the seeds for her edtech company were planted.
A Stanford freshman majoring in history at the time, she had never taught before, but q... |
| May 24, 2021 | He’s a Stanford professor and a Nobel laureate. Critics say he was dangerously misleading on Covid | One day last August, as they struggled to figure out whether to lift Covid-19 restrictions, the supervisors of Placer County, California, convened a panel of experts. It was a reasonable move. If being a local official could be thankless in... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | It’s Time for a New Policy on Confucius Institutes | On March 5, the U.S. Senate voted to deny Department of Education funding to universities that host Confucius Institutes (CIs)—the controversial Chinese language and culture centers partially financed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC)... |
| Jan 12, 2021 | In a last-minute scramble, some colleges scrap plans to reopen for the spring semester | Increasingly, colleges had been planning to reopen for in-person learning, despite the ongoing public health crisis.
A recent spike in new Covid cases is causing some to backtrack. |
| Dec 31, 2020 | Stanford Medicine accidentally vaccinated non-frontline workers over the weekend | Some non-clinical Stanford Medicine faculty and researchers mistakenly got the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of schedule this weekend.
Stanford Hospital offered walk-in vaccine appointments over the weekend and some affiliates thought they may be ... |
| Nov 13, 2020 | Inside the hyper-vigilant life of an international student at Stanford, where a positive COVID-19 test could mean a ticket home | Audrey Pe is a freshman at Stanford University. Audrey Pe
As colleges across the nation welcome students back to campus, those welcome letters also come with agreements that outline what students can and can’t do.
Stanford University, for e... |
| Apr 24, 2020 | How Stanford University Is Going Virtual In The Coronavirus Era | Stanford's Admit Weekend is going virtual in light of the coronavirus.Stanford Undergraduate Admission |
| Mar 25, 2020 | Why key performance indicators are crucial amidst a (public health) crisis | Eli Cahan Contributor
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Eli Cahan is a medical student at NYU on leave to complete a master’s in health policy at Stanford as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. His research addresses the effectiveness, economics, and ethics of (digi... |
| Jan 28, 2020 | With New Scorecard, Group Seeks Promises That Colleges Won’t Use Facial Recognition on Campus | More than 40 colleges have said they do not use facial recognition technology on campus and stated they have no plans to do so, according to a new “scorecard” published Tuesday by an advocacy campaign titled Ban Facial Recognition on Campus... |
| Sep 19, 2019 | Stanford students use AR to keep spotlight on campus sexual assault | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
One of the key features of new augmented reality applications is persistence — the use of cloud-based anchors to place digital objects ... |
| Mar 5, 2018 | Stanford students protest Apple over device addiction, demand OS fixes | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A group of Stanford University students launched a public protest against Apple this weekend, claiming that Apple has failed to take “c... |
| Jul 18, 2017 | Security Robot Takes Its Own Life in DC Fountain Tragedy | On July 17, a Knightscope K5 robot appears to have lost all patience for its job as a security guard and flung itself into a water fountain. It’s not exactly clear where in Washington DC the incident took place, with mentions of both GMMB a... |
| May 25, 2017 | Study Finds Classroom-Response 'Clickers' Can ‘Impede Conceptual Understanding’ | Plenty of peer-reviewed research shows that classroom “clickers” improve student learning when it comes to delivering facts. But a new study found that the devices can actually work against deeper learning of big-picture concepts.
The study... |
| Apr 27, 2017 | Stanford University to pilot sexual assault reporting software Callisto | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Stanford University will soon begin a three-year ... |
| Apr 27, 2017 | Stanford University to pilot sexual assault reporting software Callisto | Stanford University will soon begin a three-year pilot of sexual assault tracking program Callisto.
The pilot was announced Wednesday in a Stanford news release published in response to a new report on sexual assault initiatives at some U.S... |
| Jan 19, 2017 | News roundup: China might not buy your hotel, casino, or soccer club | |
| Nov 25, 2016 | How to recruit, hire and retain female engineers | Sharon Wienbar Contributor
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| Mar 4, 2016 | Could Slack Be the Next Online Learning Platform? | In 2013, Richard Saller, dean of Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences, argued that teaching the humanities online was nearly impossible. “The humanities have to deal with ambiguity [and] with multiple answers,” he said, “My hunch is... |
| Jan 31, 2016 | The League’s Amanda Bradford Is Not Impressed By Stanford Student’s Criticism | Well, that’s one way to respond when someone doesn’t like your startup.
After a Stanford student spotted an internship opening at The League, they declared that they were “totally and utterly ashamed that this dating service came out of Sta... |
| Oct 1, 2015 | Turing Email Makes Checking Your Inbox As Fun As Using Slack | The team at Turing Email is setting out to fix the little things that make email so tedious.
Although many solutions to replace email for internal communications are growing in popularity today, Turing Email takes a step back to the basics ... |
| Dec 26, 2014 | MOOCs in 2014: Breaking Down the Numbers | In November 2011 I was taking one of the first MOOCs from Stanford. At that time, many new MOOCs were being announced and I started Class Central as a way to keep track of them and figure out what I should take next. The website gathers cou... |
| May 25, 2013 | Stanford BASES - a model for University entrepreneurs | BASES lets students get hands-on experience knowing what it means to be an Entrepreneur
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A study done by research firm Startup Genome, called the Startup Ecosystem Report 2012, mea... |
| Aug 30, 2012 | Stanford Creates Vice Provost For Online Learning To “Fundamentally Reshape Education” | Stanford University announced the creation of an Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning today, appointing computer science professor John Mitchell as the office’s inaugural head.
In the past 20 years, Stanford has only established t... |
| Feb 21, 2012 | YC-Funded ScreenLeap: Because Screen-Sharing Doesn’t Need To Make You Crazy | With stories of Terminator-esque Google glasses making headlines these days, you’d think a basic task like screen sharing would be something that’d be pretty well solved by now. But while there are many different ways to share your desktop ... |
| Jan 31, 2012 | Is robotic surgery worth the price? | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Complication rates for women with endometrial cancer were roughly the same after standard laparoscopy and robot-assisted surgery, although the robotic procedures each cost about $1,300 more, according to a study in the ... |
| Nov 9, 2010 | Can The Story Of Electronics End Happily Ever After? | The Story Of Electronics debuts online today, the latest in a series of short films by Annie Leonard, whose original viral video The Story Of Stuff surpassed 12 million views. This installment explains ‘planned obsolescence’— electronics de... |
| Joe Biden expands his climate team with six policy experts | In December, Electrek reported that President-elect Joe Biden named the NRDC’s Gina McCarthy domestic climate czar. McCarthy and her deputy, Ali Zaidi, will coordinate action across multiple federal agencies and Congress. Here’s a brief bac... |
| ‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities | Fueled by the massive health disparities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the racial reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd, health equity research is now in vogue. Journals are clamoring for it, the media is covering it,... |
| Harvard Law Review editor who mobbed Jewish student at pro-Palestinian protest was in bizarre U-Haul crash at Stanford | More On: Israel war 2023
Israel begs Taylor Swift to help find missing teen fan feared to be hostage held by Hamas Pro-Palestinian protester ‘stalked’ Jewish victim before alleged fatal punch: witness Hamas leaders admit hope for ‘permanent... |
| Introducing Wall Street's Hottest Offspring | They're good looking, smart, and powerful. And they're about to rule the world.
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