Elaine Treharne (@ETreharne) argues that medieval manuscripts are more than just text on pretty pages in her new book "Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts."
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Stanford University School of Humanities & Sciences
- Stanford's @CarolynBertozzi discusses the foundational research that led to her 2022 @NobelPrize in #Chemistry for inventing #bioorthogonal chemical reactions. stanford.io/3rE2eIF @Stanford_ChEMH @Stanford @cobarnes27 #NobelPrize2022
- A new #Stanford graduate fellowship was named in honor of Maryam Mirzakhani news.stanford.edu/thedish/2017/1… #MaryamMirzakhani #Mathematics
- The Stanford Science Fellows program is now accepting applications for the 2021-2024 cohort. The deadline is Thursday, October 15, 2020. More information can be found at stanfordsciencefellows.stanford.edu.
- Stanford economist Ran Abramitzky on his new book with @leah_boustan "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success" bit.ly/3WJbCsK
- Michael Tubbs, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity '12, is the youngest mayor of a large US city and the first African-American to hold the position in Stockton — the first city in the US to test out universal basic income. stanford.io/2ssc6Hh
- “Understanding why and how languages differ tells about the range of what is human,” said Dan Jurafsky, chair of the Stanford linguistics department. “Discovering what’s universal about languages can help us understand the core of our humanity.” news.stanford.edu/?p=29567 @jurafsky
- Lerone A. Martin, director of @mlk_institute and associate professor in @StanfordReligSt discusses his new book, The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism.
- Congratulations to H&S British historian @PriyaSatia, whose book Empire of Guns was awarded the @AHAhistorians Jerry Bentley Prize for best book in world history.
- Stanford professor Jeremy Bailenson and other researchers found that people’s interactions with a virtual person in augmented reality influenced how they acted in the physical world. news.stanford.edu/?p=27958 @StanfordVR
- In her new book Necropolis, Kathryn Olivarius @katolivarius explores how immunity to yellow fever became a form of social and economic capital that exacerbated inequity in 19th-century New Orleans.
- Apply now for the Stanford Science Fellows program! Fellows will have opportunities to work with faculty and use facilities in Stanford’s Schools of Humanities and Sciences, @StanfordEng @StanfordMed @StanfordEarth and @SLAClab Apply by Oct. 15. stanford.io/3lzBve9
- Stanford historian @allysonvhobbs discusses the history of racial passing and her book “A Chosen Exile.” binged.it/3pIY4zi
- Join a panel of experts who will explain the science of and misconceptions around herd immunity and discuss new research frontiers in immunology, infectious disease dynamics, and human behavior. Open to the public with registration: bit.ly/2Po0CTL
