As climate change creates hotter, drier conditions, fire seasons are becoming longer with larger and more frequent wildfires. These catastrophic events have destroyed homes and infrastructure, caused significant losses in lives and livelihoods, and damaged wildland resources and the economy. The need for new solutions to combat wildfires is pressing.
Stacey Bent, who has completed a five-year term as vice provost for graduate education and postdoctoral affairs, will step down from her position in early 2025. To ensure continuity and to help with the transition, she will stay in the vice provost role while the search for her successor is conducted. She will then return to teaching and research at Stanford.
The only price of premium gas in cities throughout San Benito County was found at a single gas station in the week ending Aug. 17, according to customer reports submitted to GasBuddy.com.
A new technology has been developed to extract lithium from brines at an estimated cost of under 40% of today's dominant extraction method, according to a study published in Matter by Stanford University researchers. The new approach is said to be more reliable and sustainable in its use of water, chemicals, and land.
The ambitious campus construction project at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) aims to benefit future generations of educators through a comprehensive approach to sustainability that considers history, people, and the planet.
Stanford’s Peter and Helen Bing Director of Women’s Tennis, Lele Forood, announced on Tuesday that she is stepping down after leading the program for 24 seasons. Forood's tenure at Stanford spans nearly five decades, beginning with her All-American playing career before transitioning to a 14-year stint as an assistant coach and associate head coach.
A committee formed by Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Dean Arun Majumdar and Vice Provost and Dean of Research David Studdert to review the activities of the school’s industrial affiliates programs has completed its work. The committee assessed these activities in light of rules and requirements for industrial affiliates programs in university policies. The review was conducted in response to students calling for the university to address engagement with fossil fuel companies.
The only price of E85 gas in cities throughout Santa Clara County was found at a single gas station in the week ending Aug. 17, according to customer reports submitted to GasBuddy.com.
The only price of regular gas in cities throughout Santa Clara County was found at a single gas station in the week ending Aug. 17, according to customer reports submitted to GasBuddy.com.
Researchers at Stanford and Colorado State University have developed a rapid, low-cost approach for studying how individual extreme weather events have been affected by global warming. Their method, detailed in an August 21 study in Science Advances, uses machine learning to determine how much global warming has contributed to heat waves in the U.S. and elsewhere in recent years. The approach proved highly accurate and could change how scientists study and predict the impact of climate change on a range of extreme weather events. The results can also help guide climate...
This summer's Western heat waves have raised concerns about rotating power outages and record-breaking electricity demand in the region. According to new research by the Climate and Energy Policy Program at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, expanding current schemes to share electricity among utilities could reduce outage risks by up to 40%. The study suggests that such a change could also support favorable public opinion and policy for renewable energy growth. This comes amid discussions on initiatives like the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative, led by...
Researchers at Stanford Engineering have designed and demonstrated a new type of thermochemical reactor capable of generating the immense amounts of heat required for many industrial processes using electricity instead of burning fossil fuels. The design, published on Aug. 19 in Joule, is also smaller, cheaper, and more efficient than existing fossil fuel technology.
The only price of diesel in cities throughout Santa Clara County was found at a single gas station in the week ending Aug. 10, according to customer reports submitted to GasBuddy.com.
The only price of regular gas in cities throughout San Benito County was found at a single gas station in the week ending Aug. 10, according to customer reports submitted to GasBuddy.com.
The only price of premium gas in cities throughout Santa Clara County was found at a single gas station in the week ending Aug. 10, according to customer reports submitted to GasBuddy.com.
The only price of diesel in cities throughout San Benito County was found at a single gas station in the week ending Aug. 10, according to customer reports submitted to GasBuddy.com.
On a hot summer day on an 11-acre farm in Sunnyvale, a group of elementary school students gathered in a cool enclosure covered in vines and leaves. Stanford undergraduate Kathryn “Kat” Alexander, ’26, read them a story and then asked what they did with the kale and carrots they received the day before.