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Research reveals striking variations in pandemic recovery among U.S. school districts
News
An analysis by Stanford and Harvard researchers finds widening achievement gaps, with the highest-income districts nearly four times as likely to recover as the poorest ones. But it also identifies pockets of success.
NIH’s cap on indirect costs could threaten research at Stanford and across the country
News
Earth Systems 10 helps students tackle real-world sustainability problems
Feature
Stanford sets 2025-26 tuition rates
News
Many undergraduates will see no increase in costs thanks to financial aid.
Akshata Murty and Rishi Sunak will deliver Graduate School of Business commencement address
News
Murty is an investor and philanthropist who promotes initiatives to drive positive impact in Britain. Sunak served as the 57th prime minister of the United Kingdom. The couple met as MBA students at the GSB.
Study suggests physicians make better decisions with help of AI chatbots
Research
According to new research, doctors may benefit from an LLM assist when faced with a clinical crossroads.
In the news
The affinity for scanning a sonnet ... is similar to wanting to develop models that make genomic or protein sequences more interpretable and reveal their hidden structure. It’s almost like literary criticism on biology sequences.”
Brian Hie, assistant professor of chemical engineering, on his “ChatGPT for genomes,” which can pick up patterns that humans can’t see.
Read the Quanta magazine article
ABC7 News
Meet Stanford students using drones and artificial intelligence to track sharks: Here’s how it works
Stanford student researchers are using AI and drones in an effort to expand shark conservation.
Down to Earth
Eliminating NO2 emissions from Indian farmlands could cut crop damages amounting to $800 million per year
A study by researchers at the Doerr School of Sustainability found that NO2 emissions from coal-fired plants drag down annual wheat and rice yields in many parts of India by 10% or more.
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