News & Updates
Stanford students' robots play golf, stack dominoes, swat balloons
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Students from Stanford's Experimental Robotics course put their programming chops to work by teaching robots to play golf, tennis and soccer goalie; line up dominoes; and swat balloons in the style of King Kong swatting at airplanes.
Bird flight a model for future flying robots
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Stanford mechanical engineers are building new flying robots to assist with search and rescue missions.
Stanford software engineering MOOC aims at future startup CEOs
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Instructors hope to provide people worldwide with crucial skills for starting their own companies.
Jim Clark in conversation with John Hennessy
Monday, June 10, 2013
Creator of computer graphics technology shares history of his career with students, alumni and friends.
Stanford Engineering's Mark Appel is No. 1 Major League Baseball Draft Pick
Friday, June 7, 2013
Appel, an All-American pitcher, heads to the Houston Astros.
Stanford Computer Science Professor Honored for Robotics Work
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Oussama Khatib is a winner of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award
Stanford scientists create novel silicon electrodes that improve lithium-ion battery performance
Monday, June 3, 2013
Stanford scientists have developed inexpensive silicon-based electrodes that dramatically improve the charge storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries.
Renault-Nissan Head Carlos Ghosn Talks Future of Cars at Stanford
Friday, May 31, 2013
The Brazilian-born Ghosn is CEO of not one but two car companies, France’s Renault and Japan’s Nissan, makers of the Leaf, the first mass produced all-electric vehicle in the world. He said the car of tomorrow will be "more like a pet than a machine."
Stanford professor and former NASA official explains how NASA might revive the Kepler space telescope
Monday, May 20, 2013
Scott Hubbard, a consulting professor of aeronautics and astronautics, helped guide the Kepler mission when he served as director of NASA Ames Research Center. He explains how NASA might bring the planet-hunting spacecraft back online.
Stanford Dedicates Spilker Engineering and Applied Sciences Building
Monday, May 20, 2013
President Hennessy, Jerry Yang and 200 others toast GPS pioneer and wife for lifetime achievements and gift that will fund a state-of-the-art research environment and two professorships in the School of Engineering.
New Stanford Nanoscavengers Could Usher In Next Generation Water Purification
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
New synthetic nanoparticle could disinfect, depollute, and desalinate contaminated water and then get removed magnetically.
Christensen Wins Timoshenko Award from ASME
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Expert in mechanics of materials recognized for lifetime contributions to the field.
Stanford engineers monitor heart health using paper-thin flexible 'skin'
Monday, May 13, 2013
Engineers combine layers of flexible materials into pressure sensors to create a wearable heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill. The skin-like device could one day provide doctors with a safer way to check the condition of a patient's heart.
Apply now for the Bridge to China Program
Thursday, May 9, 2013
The School of Engineering China programs aim to enhance engineering education by providing undergraduate, co-term, master's, and PhD students with an opportunity to learn about China and to gain meaningful volunteer experience in a culturally diverse and international environment.
Close Wins Early Career Award from Department of Energy
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Assistant Professor will study the behaviors of plasmas created when tiny meteoroids and space debris are vaporized in hypervelocity collisions with spacecraft.
Stanford Engineers' New Metamaterial Doubles Up on Invisibility
Monday, May 6, 2013
The new material's artificial "atoms" are designed to work with a broad range of light frequencies. With adjustments, the researchers believe it could lead to perfect microscope lenses or invisibility cloaks.
Spormann Elected Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology
Monday, May 6, 2013
Spormann studies anaerobic microbes to understand the molecular and biochemical basis of unusual metabolism.
Reinhard Wins Humboldt Research Award
Friday, May 3, 2013
Award recognizes lifetime achievement and unites international researchers with colleagues in Germany.
Quake Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Bioengineer receives one of nation's highest honors in science. His innovations include a rapid DNA sequencer, a non-invasive prenatal test for Down syndrome and the biological equivalent of the integrated circuit.
Dill and Bienenstock Elected Members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Friday, April 26, 2013
Two faculty members at the School of Engineering join one of the country's oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies.
New Battery Design Could Help Solar and Wind Energy Power the Grid
Friday, April 26, 2013
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid.
DARPA Grant Will Help Stanford Dig Deep into the Big Data in Social Networks
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Backed by a $5.6 million grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an interdisciplinary team at Stanford is embarking on a four-year project to better understand and model complex communication patterns in social networks in real time.
Big questions for big data: Stanford’s Jure Leskovec
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Assistant Professor Jure Leskovec uses information collected from sites like Twitter, Wikipedia and Facebook to tackle big questions about how society works.
Getting CLARITY: Hydrogel process developed at Stanford creates transparent brain
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Stanford bioengineers have transformed an intact, post-mortem mouse brain into a transparent three-dimensional structure that keeps all the fine wiring and molecular structures in place. Known as CLARITY, the technique stands to transform our understanding of the brain and indeed of any biological tissue.
Stanford Names Dominate Association for Computing Machinery Awards
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Two faculty members and four alumni are among those named as winners of prestigious ACM Awards in computer science.
