Tomiko Brown-Nagin, one of the nation’s leading experts in educational law and policy, history, and constitutional law, will be the next dean of @StanfordEd, Provost Jenny Martinez announced today.
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- Stanford bioengineer Vayu Hill-Maini (@NOFOKitchen) is harnessing the power of fungi — nature’s recyclers — to create foods of the future. #ResearchMatters
- Behind the Science 🔬 Step into Stanford’s Nanopatterning Cleanroom, where Hamish Carr Delgado, a PhD candidate in materials science and engineering, is working to develop energy-efficient chips for AI data centers.
- Stanford and the U.S. Department of Energy’s @SLAClab will lead six Genesis Mission projects that will harness AI to accelerate advances in critical areas including battery waste, understanding the evolution of the universe, and plant genetics.
- ‘We are just so underprepared’ Unless countries rapidly scale up adaptation efforts, future heat waves in Europe could prove far more lethal, pushing weekly deaths toward pandemic levels, Stanford researchers showed in a 2025 study.

