Research

In this Future of Everything episode, computer science professor Omar Reingold explains how we can create definitions of fairness that can be incorporated into computer algorithms.

Chemists from Stanford, UC-Berkeley and Texas A&M, have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and possibly vehicles. An inexpensive polymer called melamine is used as a carbon capture material which could potentially be scaled down to capture emissions from movable sources.

The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment is awarding $1.65 million to 10 innovative projects. One of the projects funded is mitigating a source of lead in South Asia - informal recycling of lead acid batteries from 3-wheeled EVs. The trial will measure the project's effect on lead emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, profits and livelihoods.

Stanford researchers work to solve the mysteries of battery degradation, reveal the true environmental toll of battery production and disposal, and improve the performance of next generation batteries.

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability officially opened on September 1. Dean Arun Majumdar brings his personal experiences of growing up in India and extensive experience in academia, government industry and national labs to his new role. 

In this interview, Londa Schiebinger, international expert on gender in science and technology discusses tools she developed to help achieve inclusive design, and her recommendations for making inclusive design a part of the product development process.

A new National Academies of Science report argues whose members include John Hennessy, the former president of Stanford and an advisor to Stanford HAI, that researchers must start projects with ethical review, working with stakeholders and experts from other fields.

In this podcast, Chris Potts, far left, professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics and Percy Liang who lead the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM), discuss being 'weirded out' by GPT-3, unresolved questions in building best practices, and the future of CRFM.

The TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy Graduate Fellowships for Translational Research program awarded three Stanford Ph.D. students support to develop promising early-stage research on novel climate solutions.

In a new white paper, researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, find that a growing number of companies are realizing the urgency of shifting their operations toward designing products for durability and recyclability, reducing material requirements, consuming fewer resources in manufacturing and shipping and keeping items in circulation to boost their lifespan.