Profiles
An internal struggle is emerging within the Islamic religion. More
Abassi Program hosts scholar Reza Aslan
An internal struggle is emerging within the Islamic religion
to determine who has the authority to govern the faith: individuals
or traditional clerical institutions, a prominent scholar on Islam
told a Stanford audience. More
Physics Prof. Douglas Osheroff first learned about research in his high school
chemistry class. More
Osheroff reflects on his unique path
Physics Prof. Douglas Osheroff first learned about research in his high school chemistry class. His teacher handed him a milk carton with an unknown object inside it and asked him to find out what it was. The 10th grader from Washington state took the box in his hands and shook it back and forth, listening to the noise it made. Then he turned it upside down, weighed it, rotated it slowly, rattled it – and by the time he was able to guess, the future Nobel laureate was hooked.
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Londa Schiebinger, the director of the Clayman Institute
for Gender Research, wants to make it the "go to" center
for gender studies everywhere. More
Director hopes to create 'go to' center for gender studies
Londa Schiebinger, director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, wants to make it the "go to" center for gender studies
everywhere. Recognized as a leading scholar on gender and the history of science,
Schiebinger was hired to lead the insitute
as the Barbara D. Finberg Director for a five year term. She is also a professor
in the Department of History.
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Robert Gregg, professor of religious studies
and, by courtesy, of classics, explains how he engages students in the
analysis of texts that operate from assumptions very different from contemporary
ones. More
Many Heads Better Than One
Robert Gregg, professor of religious studies and, by courtesy, of classics,
addressed the topic of "Working Rich Data" when he spoke as
part of the "Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching" lecture series
sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning. Gregg, whose specialties
include the history of early Christianity, explained how he engages students
in the analysis of texts that operate from assumptions very different
from contemporary ones. A former dean for religious life, Gregg also shared
some pithy advice gleaned during more than three decades of teaching.
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In Search of our Origins
Researchers, including H&S Professor Marcus W. Feldman, discovered that human beings may have made their first journey out of Africa as recently as 70,000 years ago, and they estimate that the entire population of ancestral humans at the time of the African expansion consisted of only about 2,000 individuals. More
Students Develop New Technology Links
Orkut Buyukkokten, a computer science doctoral student, and Tyler Ziemann, a political science undergraduate, created Club Nexus, a free service exclusively for Stanford students that helps them connect through technology, making friend-of-a-friend relationships both visible and accessible online. The project is so successful that they launched a new business called Affinity Engines. More
Photo: Peter Fox
Philosophy professors Kenneth
Taylor and John Perry ponder perplexing issues during "Philosophy
Talk" program.
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Philosophy Talk
Philosophy Talk, a radio program featuring Stanford Philosophy Professors Kenneth Taylor and John Perry, sets out to address some of life’s bigger questions: What is justice? Can machines be programmed to think? Is free will an illusion? Is lying always bad? More
Learning from Nature
New insights into the behavior of social insects emerged from H&S Professor Deborah Gordon's 20-year field study of red harvester ants. The findings interest not only biologists but also engineers trying to solve intricate problems in computer science, network communications and even robotics. More
Photo: LA Cicero, Stanford News Service
Art Professor Paul DeMarinis works
on his piece "Firebirds,"
in his campus studio. More
Turning Sound Into Art
The idea behind Paul DeMarinis art is to wake people
out of their normal thought patterns and get them to notice the space
around them. "I really like making that connection with people,"
the award-winning electronic media artist explains. "If it brings
them wonder, surprise and delight, I think it's a successful effort."
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Applying Research to Civil Rights
John Baugh, professor of linguistics by courtesy, researched his theory that landlords were discriminating against prospective tenants on the basis of linguistic profiling. He has formed a graduate-student research group that will examine issues related to linguistic profiling. More
Students explore Judaism and Violence
The undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the seminar Judaism and Violence hunkered over photocopies of the Babylonian Talmud as they took turns parsing the rabbinic commentaries in Hebrew and Aramaic. The class is taught by Religious Studies Professor Charlotte Fonrobert, who explores how Judaism fits into the debate about religion as a source of violence. More
Carly Schuster designed her own major to better match her interests. More
Individually Designed Majors
Carly Schuster, an H&S undergraduate student,
decided not to settle for a degree in feminist studies or political science
when she could create a major that better matched her interests, what
she describes as the sociopolitical and economic effects of international
development on women. More
Ethnic Studies
Paula Moya, associate professor of English, reflects on her first year
as director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
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Quality Teaching: Professor Paul Wender
Quality Teaching
After teaching organic chemistry for more than three decades, H&S Professor
Paul Wender is convinced that teachers ultimately are accountable to their
students and that objective data should be used in evaluating the success
of teachers and students. More
Mark Applebaum, assistant professor of music, was honored with the Gores
Award for Excellence in teaching in 2003. One student described him as
"embodying what all Stanford professors should strive to be."
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Philip Zimbardo, professor of psychology, considers how his life led
to his life of teaching and research. More
Awards
Solomon Feferman, the Patrick Suppes Family Professor in the School
of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford, was awarded Sweden's Rolf Schock
Prize in logic and philosophy. The prize citation lauded Feferman, who
has made important contributions in key areas of logic, "for his works
on the arithmetization of metamathematics, transfinite progressions of
theories and predicativity." More
Harry Elam, professor of drama, was awarded the 2003 Lyman Award. More
Nathan Oliveira: Nude with Red Leg, 2001.
Art Gives Wing to Imagination
Nathan Oliveira, emeritus H&S professor of art and internationally
renown painter, hopes his Windhover project will land at Stanford.
"I've always thought if I had wings, I could fly. Well, I do have wings
in my mind . . . and these paintings are like a catalyst that can take
you wherever you want your mind to fly." More
