Neuroscience has come a long way since the Roman physician Galen prodded gladiators' head wounds and surmised that the brain, and not the heart, was the home of human intelligence. Nowadays, scientists can create three-dimensional maps of intact neuronal networks, observe individual neurons firing in real time within animals, and ...
Stanford Scientist Joins Call For Major Brain Research Project
Posted On Thursday, March 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA, FEATURED Tags: Brain Activity Map, brain research project, Karl Deisseroth, Stanford scientist
Neuroscience has come a long way since the Roman physician Galen prodded gladiators' head wounds and surmised that the brain, and not the heart, was the home of human intelligence. Nowadays, scientists can create three-dimensional maps of intact neuronal networks, observe individual neurons firing in real time within animals, and ...
Stanford Scholar Looks to Genes to Make Sense of the Dollars you Invest
Posted On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA, FEATURED Tags: 5-HTTLPR alleles, Brian Knutson, Camelia Kuhnen, mapped out the brain regions, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford scholar
If you get $10,000 to invest, where would you put it? Stocks? Bonds? A savings account?
Your choice may be guided by more than your financial savvy. It could be in your genes.
New research shows a correlation between genetic variation and financial risk-taking. Scientists found that at the prospect of a ...
Save Your Teens, Save Your Marriage: Stanford’s Brief Interventions
Posted On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Carol Dweck, Dave Paunesku, David Yeager, Greg Walton, James Gross, Short psychological, Stanford psychologist
Short psychological interventions can change preconceptions, altering how people interact with their world. Effects are potent, cumulative and long lasting. Recent Stanford research reveals the benefits of brief interventions in both aggressive teens and antagonistic spouses.
In less than half an hour, a Stanford psychologist can improve your marriage. Another psychologist ...
Stanford Professor Puts Desire In A Medieval Context
Posted On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: David Lummus, medieval context, Valentine, vocabulary of romance
It's Valentine season once again. And although Americans have adopted the medieval vocabulary of romance with words like courtship, chivalry and loyalty, the European poets who first described these ideas would find it hard to relate to our modern motto "happily ever after."
Unlike today, when we expect romance to yield ...
More Than a Stanford Concert Hall, Bing is a High-Tech Music Research Lab
Posted On Thursday, February 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: CCRMA, Concert Hall, DIY Musical Instrument Tailgate Party, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, tech music research lab
In a series of performances, students and faculty from Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics will give audiences an immersive 3-D experience.
Like a well-designed sports car, Stanford's new Bing Concert Hall looks great from the outside but is even more impressive when you peer under the hood. ...
Stanford-Led Team Pioneers New Way To Survey Thawing Arctic
Posted On Thursday, February 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Andrew Parsekian, Geophysical Research Letters, pioneers, Stanford-led, survey thawing Arctic
In the snow of Alaska, a Stanford-led team of researchers has found a new way to determine if the soil beneath lakes, normally frozen, is thawing as a result of climate change. If so, the lakes could become a new source of methane, a global warming gas.
The arctic permafrost is ...
Stanford Experiment Shows That Virtual Superpowers Encourage Real-World Empathy
Posted On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Jeremy Bailenson, real-world empathy, Robin Rosenberg, Shawnee Baughman, Virtual Human Interaction Laboratory
Researchers at Stanford recently investigated the subject by giving people the ability of Superman-like flight in the university's Virtual Human Interaction Laboratory (VHIL). While several studies have shown that playing violent videogames can encourage aggressive behavior, the new research suggests that games could be designed to train people to be ...
Stanford Students Variations On A Theme By Kotche
Posted On Saturday, February 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Bing Concert Hall, drum kit opera, Glenn Kotche, John Luther Adams, percussionist, solo percussion shows
A Glenn Kotche performance is a physically impressive feat. Kotche is a percussionist – best known as the drummer for the rock band Wilco – renowned for his solo percussion shows. Without melodies and harmonies to hide behind, these concerts leave him with the task of making a seamless, full ...
To Motivate Many Americans, Think ‘me’ before ‘we,’ Say Stanford Psychologists
Posted On Thursday, January 31, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: American culture stresses independence, President Barack Obama, second inaugural address, Stanford psychologists
If you hear that getting a flu shot is the responsible thing to do to keep others from getting sick, will you get it? And if you're told recycling is better for the planet and humanity, will you do it?
It turns out that for many Americans, the answer is no.
A ...
Stanford Faculty Share Experiences Of Online Teaching
Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Education, Stanford faculty, Stanford faculty share, Vice Provost for Online Learning
The 4-minute mile and a cruise ship navigating through icebergs were among the startling images of online teaching evoked Jan. 23, as Stanford instructors who have experimented with new technologies shared their experiences with a packed room of students, professors and other educators.
The forum was sponsored by the Office of ...
At Stanford, Clinical Training for Defense of Religious Liberty
Posted On Saturday, January 26, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Clinical Training, Defense of Religious Liberty, John Templeton Foundation, Mitt Romney, Stanford
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Backed by two conservative groups, Stanford Law School has opened the nation’s only clinic devoted to religious liberty, an indication both of where the church-state debate has moved and of the growth in hands-on legal education.
Begun with $1.6 million from the John Templeton Foundation, funneled through ...
Documentary By Filmmakers-In-Residence Wins Sundance Award
Posted On Saturday, January 19, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Maren Grainger-Monsen, Nicole Newnham, Sundance Film Festival, The Revolutionary Optimists
Nicole Newnham
The Revolutionary Optimists, a documentary by filmmakers-in-residence in the Program in Bioethics and Film at Stanford, has won this year's LightStay Sustainability Award from Hilton Worldwide and the Sundance Institute.
Maren Grainger-Monsen, MD, and Nicole Newnham co-produced and co-directed the documentary. They will be presented with the $22,500 award ...
Researchers Use Stem Cells to Pinpoint Cause of Common Type of Sudden Cardiac Death
Posted On Friday, January 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Andrew Lee, Joseph Wu, MYH7 gene, Ping Liang, Stanford University School of Medicine, sudden cardiac death
When a young athlete dies unexpectedly on the basketball court or the football field, it’s both shocking and tragic. Now Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have, for the first time, identified the molecular basis for a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that is the most common cause for this type ...
Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall Opens this Friday with Soundscape Fanfare
Posted On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: CCRMA, Concert Hall, Department of Music., Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Stanford's Bing Concert
A three-minute fanfare packed with sounds shaped and inspired by Stanford's Bing Concert Hall – including harbor horns, a Canadian icebreaker, music student assignments and even the hall's steel beams – will be the first music heard at the hall on opening night this Friday, Jan. 11.
Faculty at the Department ...
Sacrifice And Luck Help Japan Survive Without Nuclear Power
Posted On Monday, January 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Japan, nuclear power, nuclear-dependent, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, scholar
Sacrifice and luck help Japan survive without nuclear power, Stanford visiting scholar says
In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, nuclear-dependent Japan began shutting down its other reactors. Toshiya Okamura, a Tokyo Gas executive and visiting scholar at Stanford University, explains how the country survived the summer, and expresses deep concerns ...
