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Inside the Nerdball revolution
With a spreadsheet as his compass, Coach Kyle Smith is rebuilding Stanford basketball through quantifiable toughness—and the players are embracing it.
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Cracking autoimmunity’s toughest cases
David Fiorentino’s pursuit of hidden patterns in autoimmune disease is transforming patient care—and may lead to new strategies for cancer prevention. (A little help from his old Stanford pals didn’t hurt.)
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Talent is everywhere. Access? Less so.
As a high school student, taking a year of college courses transformed Lerone Martin’s sense of what was possible. As a Stanford professor, he’s now offering that same experience to students too often excluded from elite higher education.
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Scrappy and Proud
The student-run On Call Café aspires to more than latte art. Come for the caffeine, stay for the much-needed connection.
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Undoing injustice
Stanford Law School’s Three Strikes Project began as a challenge to draconian sentences. What followed is a national movement in criminal justice reform.
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The name, image, and likeness of the game
New rules for paying student-athletes are changing college sports and the role of philanthropy.
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Seventeen syllables, two generations
Grounded by the pandemic, Yoshiko Matsumoto turned haiku into a tool for connection.
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The universe, decoded
A new Stanford center is uniting astronomers and data scientists to decipher the cosmos—and reinvent the future of discovery.
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A flash of hope
A radiation oncologist’s breakthrough in delivering ultra-fast radiation may make cancer treatment more effective—and less damaging.
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Three-Minute Triumph
A spirited competition pitted Stanford doctoral students against each other. Can you guess who won?
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A mistake, a hunch—and a breakthrough
How a research setback led to a discovery that just might transform lives.
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