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Replacing the “Take-Make-Waste” Model with Sustainable Supply Chains

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.

How to build a better magnet

Researchers from Stanford and John Hopkins University are developing a new type of ultra-efficient material called "soft magnetic composite," or SMC, that can lead to miniaturized motors, power supplies and generators. Magnets are used in almost every step of electrical production but improving them has been a challenge. Link

How a new program at Stanford is embedding ethics into computer science

One of the main themes of the university's Long Range Vision is embedding ethics across research and education. Kathleen Creel, seen here at left, is the inaugural Embedded EthiCS fellow training the next generation of entrepreneurs and engineers to identify and work through various ethical and moral problems they will encounter in their careers. “The objective is to weave ethics into the curriculum organically so that it feels like a natural part of their practice,” said Creel. 

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