When Robert Wilson rang Paul Milgrom's doorbell at 2:15 this morning, Milgrom's wife, who's in Stockholm, received a security-camera notification on her phone. She got to watch live as Wilson told Milgrom he'd won the
#NobelPrize
.
Dr. Atlas has expressed views that are inconsistent with the university’s approach in response to the pandemic. Dr. Atlas’s statements reflect his personal views, not those of the Hoover Institution or the university. 3/3
The university has been asked to comment on recent statements made by
@ScottWAtlas
, a senior fellow at the
@HooverInst
who is on leave of absence from that position. 1/3
Stanford’s position on managing the pandemic in our community is clear. We support using masks, social distancing, and conducting surveillance and diagnostic testing. We also believe in the importance of strictly following the guidance of local and state health authorities. 2/3
"I understand the gravity of being a woman and now a
#Nobel
laureate in the sciences. There aren't that many of us—yet."
Prof.
@CarolynBertozzi
on chemistry, mentorship and representation ⬇️
In the context of the national discourse, Stanford unequivocally condemns calls for the genocide of Jews or any peoples. That statement would clearly violate Stanford’s Fundamental Standard, the code of conduct for all students at the university.
“I’m the same person I was at 1 a.m., but I’m realizing that my voice now has a platform, and I’m thinking about how to use that.” -
@CarolynBertozzi
, winner of the 2022
#NobelPrize
in chemistry
🗞:
Congratulations to Professor
@CarolynBertozzi
, winner of the 2022
@NobelPrize
in Chemistry for her role in the development of bioorthogonal chemistry.
"You have 50 minutes to collect yourself and wait until your life changes." - The
#Nobel
Committee to Prof.
@CarolynBertozzi
, 1:53 a.m.
(Voicemail count at 3 a.m.: 30+.)
"We're enthusiastic about what we do. We like it. And it's exciting. It's a great life to be able to live this way." -Robert Wilson and Paul Milgrom, winners of the 2020
#NobelPrize
in economic sciences for their path-breaking discoveries in auction theory
Quad goals.
Stanford alumni return to campus on screen and in real life this weekend, all for Reunion Homecoming. Catch the Season 5 premiere of
@insecurehbo
on Sunday at 10/9c, starring
@IssaRae
, '07, and written by
@amyaniobi
, '06.
📸: Raymond Liu /
@HBO
"There are too many people who want credit without responsibility. Too many who show up for the ribbon cutting without building anything worth a damn. Be different. Leave something worthy." -
@tim_cook
#Stanford19
Stanford’s 2021 Commencement ceremonies will feature speeches by two alumni: actress, writer and producer
@IssaRae
, '07, and surgeon, author and public health leader
@Atul_Gawande
, '87.
When you take a photo of campus and the nondescript bicyclist in the foreground turns out to be a 5x Olympic gold medalist. (👏 for the helmet.)
@katieledecky
It's been a busy morning for
#NobelPrize
winner Guido Imbens and his family! After waking everyone up when they heard the news shortly before 3 a.m.,
@Susan_Athey
told their kids Andrew, Sylvia, and Carleton that they could decide if they wanted to go to school or not today.
@AmyMichelleGe
According to our records, a person by this name earned graduate degrees at Stanford more than a decade ago. She is not employed as staff or as a faculty member.
More than 160 massive open online courses are available, including classes such as Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity, and Language, Proof and Logic.
As part of a new expansion of Stanford’s financial aid program, undergrad families with annual incomes below $100,000 will pay no tuition, room, or board beginning in 2023-24:
Too many show up for the ribbon cutting without building anything worth a damn. Be different. Leave something worthy. And always remember that you can’t take it with you. You’re going to have to pass it on. -
@tim_cook
#Stanford19
Congratulations to Professors Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, winners of the 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.
#NobelPrize
"TV is a tool. The internet is a tool. Social media is a tool. At the end of the day, tools don’t control us. We control them. And we can remake them." -
@BarackObama
, speaking at Stanford on Thursday
With great regret, Stanford has decided we will not be able to invite undergraduate students to campus for the fall quarter. Almost all undergraduate instruction will be delivered remotely.
Stanford economist Guido Imbens discusses his work, which made it possible to find cause and effect in real-world randomness, with kids Sylvia (10), Andrew (15) and Carleton (17).
Can you win a
#NobelPrize
in parenting?
Welcome home,
@StanfordWBB
!
Stanford honored the 2021
@ncaawbb
champions with a campus parade a day after the Cardinal beat the Arizona Wildcats for the team’s first national title since 1992.
📸: Andrew Brodhead
Apple CEO
@tim_cook
to the Class of
#Stanford19
: If you [get] out of bed every morning and set your watch by what other people expect or demand, it’ll drive you crazy.
Jonathan Levin, a distinguished economist and Stanford alumnus who has led the Stanford Graduate School of Business as dean for the last eight years, has been appointed the next president of Stanford University, the Board of Trustees announced today.
"Social progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals."
#MLK
at Stanford in 1967:
"We have our own national identity, we have our own stories, we have a narrative that isn't the one that Putin is trying to push on us." -Catarina Buchatskiy, '23
"It may well be that we will have to repent ... not merely for the vitriolic words of the bad people and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people, who sit around and say, 'Wait on time.'" -
#MLK
at Stanford, 1967
"People often define racism as disliking or mistreating others on the basis of race. That definition is wrong. Racism is a system of advantage based on race. It is a hierarchy. It is a pandemic."
“Social progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals.”
#MLK
at Stanford in 1967:
Doctors and engineers at Stanford and Georgia Tech have developed a vibrating glove that could help stroke survivors regain the ability to control their arms and hands.
"You have an opportunity – a responsibility – to leave this world better than how you found it,"
@sterlingkbrown
, '98, told graduating students at Stanford’s 127th Commencement.
#Stanford18
On this day 150 years ago, Stanford's namesake was born. Leland Stanford Jr. was his parents' only son. After he died at age 15 of typhoid fever, they founded a university in his honor, declaring "The children of California shall be our children."
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address is the most popular video on Stanford’s YouTube channel. Watch it here:
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address is the most popular video on Stanford’s YouTube channel. Watch it here:
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address is the most popular video on Stanford’s YouTube channel. Watch it here:
Therefore, Monday morning we contacted the Department of Education to ask that our application for relief funds under the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund section of the CARES act be rescinded.(5/6)
Final score:
@StanfordFball
38, Notre Dame 20. Stanford has also won the Pac-12 North and will compete in the Pac-12 Championship Game against USC on Friday, Dec. 1 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.
#GoStanford
Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017), "a virtuoso in the dynamics and geometry of complex surfaces," struggled in middle school math before taking off under a more encouraging teacher. "It's so important," she later reflected, "what others see in you."
#WomensHistoryMonth
Stanford will expand undergraduate financial aid for 2021-22. Families with incomes below $75,000 and typical assets will pay no tuition, room or board; families with incomes below $150,000 and typical assets will pay no tuition.
Congratulations to the 2,040 students representing all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and 63 countries who have been offered admission to the Class of 2022:
In a 1967 speech at Stanford,
#MLK
described the struggle to make a nation out of what he saw as two Americas—one “overflowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey of opportunity,” another where “work-starved men … find themselves perishing on a lonely island of poverty."
Stanford stands in full support of our international community, and encourages the reversal of a new federal visa policy that would prohibit nonimmigrant students from staying in the country if they are taking all of their courses online in the fall.
Donald Kennedy, a neurobiologist who became the eighth president of Stanford in 1980 and helped set the stage for its transformation into one of the nation’s top research universities during his 12 years in office, died today of COVID-19. He was 88.
Misinformation about COVID-19 symptoms and treatment falsely attributed to Stanford is circulating on social media and in email forwards. It is not from Stanford. Official information from Stanford is available at .
Fulfilling a prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, researchers have reported the first-ever recordings of X-ray emissions from the far side of a black hole.
"He really likes to make sure he understands things. He'll keep pushing until ... the math just sings to the ideas and the ideas sing to the math."
-
@Susan_Athey
on her husband and co-author Guido Imbens, recipient of the 2021
#NobelPrize
in economics