“Something like 90 to 95%of our decisions and behaviors are constantly being shaped non-consciously by the emotional brain system.”In this episode of Think Fast,Talk Smart,Professor of Marketing Baba Shiv sits down with lecturer and host Matt Abrahams to share his research on how emotions affect our,and our audience’s,decision making.“You’ve got to pay careful attention to the audience that you’re talking to and allow the person to talk,”Shiv says.“Allow the person to talk because then,the person has ownership of the idea.” 查看详细>>

When it comes to understanding how people learn,data is vital—and it’s become ubiquitous,as school districts,universities and education technology companies amass increasingly complex records of students’behavior.Few education professionals,however,have the skills to make the most of that data.And few data scientists understand the educational environment well enough to interpret that data or even to know the questions to ask.In agroundbreaking step to bridge this gap,Stanford Graduate School of Education(GSE)is launching anew master’s program in education data science,the first program of its kind to focus specifically on the use of data to solve educational challenges.“Without data,it’s nearly impossible to provide students,teachers and policy makers with the kind of feedback that supports continual improvement,”said Daniel Schwartz,the I.James Quillen Dean and Nomellini and Olivier Professor of Educational Technology at the GSE.“The new master’s program in education data science will produce the talent we need to take the vast amount of data now being generated and apply it to new possibilities in education.”The 18-month master of science program is now recruiting students for its inaugural cohort,which will begin in the fall of 2021.The GSE is also introducing atrack for PhD students interested in focusing on data science. 查看详细>>

For the past five weeks,staff members in Undergraduate Admission,in collaboration with departments throughout campus,have been working to transition Stanford’s annual Admit Weekend from an in-person to avirtual event.Thanks to the help of offices throughout campus,the Office of Undergraduate Admission has recreated the personal experiences of the past,albeit via robust webpages filled with student stories and interactive virtual gatherings held both before and after Saturday’s festivities.(Image credit:Courtesy Undergraduate Admission)Virtual Admit Weekend,which will be held Saturday,April 25,is yet another example of ashift in plans caused by the coronavirus shutdown.The jam-packed and exuberant weekend has traditionally been the time when prospective undergraduates,many of whom are still weighting multiple college offers,try Stanford on for size in person in time to make adecision by the May 1deadline.Last year’s Admit Weekend,for instance,included open houses,picnics,concerts,classes with faculty members,panel discussions with current students and tours of memorable campus spaces.Many participants spent the night in dorms,experiencing residential life first hand.“The deep value of Stanford’s Admit Weekend has always been the personal contact–the chance to look into aperson’s eyes and realize that you are coming into acommunity where you will feel like you belong,”said Karen Ransom,assistant dean for marketing events and yield in the Office of Undergraduate Admission. 查看详细>>

Last May when Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced the university’s long-range vision to the Academic Council,he laid out initiatives that bolster the university’s mission of research and education to advance human welfare in arapidly changing world.With just six months since that launch,activities are taking shape to realize the goals of transforming learning,empowering discovery and creativity,and accelerating solutions for our planet,our health and society.“In creating our long-range vision,faculty-led teams distilled 2,800 ideas from across our community into specific plans that will accelerate our impact and transform education.The vision can be summed up in one sentence:Fueled by optimism,ingenuity and asense of responsibility,we seek to accelerate our purposeful impact in the world,”Tessier-Lavigne said.“Our faculty leaders are now implementing activities to fulfill this vision of what the future means for Stanford and what Stanford can mean to the world.”Funding discovery and solutions Funding for research opportunities can be an incentive to take risks on bold new ideas and spark new collaborations–an approach with ahistory of success in Stanford’s interdisciplinary institutes and one that several programs arising from the long-range planning process have recently launched.The vision initiatives are offering avariety of approaches for seed funding for individual researchers and teams. 查看详细>>

The Stanford Classrooms Reimagined project team,which is developing amaster plan for classrooms and informal learning spaces that will guide planning and design for the next decade,will present apreview of its findings to the university community this week.The Office of the Vice Provost for Technology and Learning(VPTL)launched the project last spring,in response to agrowing body of research showing that today’s students want to be actively engaged in learning–in the classroom,online and throughout campus.Previous feedback from faculty and administrative staff has emphasized the need for improvements in many of Stanford’s classrooms.The university is committed to adapting its teaching and learning environment and creating flexible and dynamic learning spaces that support research-based teaching pedagogies and efficient use of spaces.Mike Keller,vice provost for technology and learning,will open each session,which will be held from 3:30-4:30 p.m.on Wednesday,and from 9:30-10:30 a.m.on Thursday,in Room 001 of 408 Panama Mall.The building is located at the intersection of Panama Mall and Lomita Mall on the west side of campus. 查看详细>>

Teams of scientists,engineers and clinicians from across Stanford’s campus will soon be able to join forces,share expertise and access laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment,thanks to an expansive new research complex opening this month.Dedicated to the life sciences and human health,the facility brings together two interdisciplinary institutes–the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Stanford ChEM-H(Chemistry,Engineering and Medicine for Human Health)–in two interconnecting buildings.The four-story complex provides 235,000 square feet for work,study and social activity,including asuite of community labs.“The opening of this complex heralds anew era of scientific collaboration and discovery on campus,”President Marc Tessier-Lavigne said.“The Stanford ChEM-H Building and the Stanford Neurosciences Building will be accessible to the whole university community,allowing experts from different disciplines to work together in advancing human health.We are deeply thankful for the extraordinary generosity of those who are making this visionary complex and these transformative opportunities possible.” 查看详细>>

For years,one of the highest-rated comedy series on television was The Big Bang Theory,a show whose central characters portray“old,tired images of the science community,sending aresounding message about who belongs in science,”says Bryan A.Brown,an associate professor of science education at Stanford Graduate School of Education.“These stereotypes have been reinforced for generations.We can’t ignore the barriers these expectations impose.”Brown’s research examines why cultural stereotypes and language about science matter,especially for students in multilingual and multicultural communities who might not fit the images they see or relate to the words they hear in popular culture and in the classroom.Brown,a former high school science teacher,has studied science education in urban communities for more than two decades,exploring the relationship between student identity,classroom culture and academic achievement.For the past eight summers,Brown has brought fifth-and sixth-graders from inner-city schools to the Stanford campus for aweeklong science camp,where the students get excited about biology,physics,chemistry and engineering–and learn from teachers of color,who provide critical role models in the field.In his new book,Science in the City,Brown looks at the role that language and culture play in teaching science and technology.We spoke with him about some of the obstacles young people of color face in the science classroom,and how science teachers can better connect their lessons to students’cultural identities. 查看详细>>

Stanford’s student organizations recently transformed White Plaza into alively Fall Student Activities Fair,complete with balloons,sword fights and music–all in an attempt to recruit new members.The organizations represented awide range of interests,from academics to the arts to athletics to politics.Stanford News Service photographers captured images of Stanford’s passionate,creative and committed students as they encouraged others to join their causes and share their interests. 查看详细>>

To bolster the long-term vision of athriving bioscience community near its campus,Stanford University is working to shape part of Stanford Research Park into aleading life science district focused on fast-growing sectors such as bioengineering,gene therapies,diagnostics,medical technology and devices,surgical robotics and digital health.As akey component of this effort,Stanford is collaborating with Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc.to convert an existing 92,000-square-foot facility at 3160 Porter Drive into alife science incubator–Alexandria LaunchLabs at Stanford Research Park–and small lab suites.When the building was recently vacated,Stanford saw an opportunity to create aflexible and vibrant space that would enhance the connections between the existing life science ecosystem of medical facilities,researchers and companies in the surrounding area,while also encouraging progress toward an even more diverse life science community.The university held acompetition for firms that specialize in this work and chose Alexandria,an experienced developer and operator of successful life science communities near academic campuses.“Stanford has alegacy of translating life science research discoveries into cures,but the opportunities in this field are greater than ever before.We want to take advantage of this current momentum and further accelerate solutions,”said Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne.“This new incubator will support entrepreneurs in the development of new therapies and cures for critical diseases and create acommunity for life sciences entrepreneurship and innovation.We were delighted to enlist Alexandria,which has astrong history of not only building lab space but stimulating discovery and collaboration through their unique approach to creating life science ecosystems.”The university envisions the incubator as the anchor of an 85-acre life science district,within the existing Stanford Research Park,that will become anew center of gravity for life science innovation in the Bay Area–a community for scientists and entrepreneurs who desire to collaborate,discover and invent pioneering medicines,therapies,devices and technologies to help humankind.。 查看详细>>

A new collaboration with an independent school in Menlo Park,Calif.,is helping Stanford researchers better understand how different learning experiences drive changes in the brain.The Brainwave Learning Center at Synapse School brings together researchers,teachers and students to gain new insights into how young learners‘brains transform as they acquire new skills.Through the center,students in kindergarten through eighth grade engage with neuroscience through lessons and activities developed by researchers and Synapse teachers,while researchers learn about brain development."By being embedded in aschool,we can really see how school experiences impact the development of systems like the brain circuitry for reading or the brain circuitry for computing numbers,"said Stanford Graduate School of Education(GSE)Professor Bruce McCandliss,who leads the project.At the same time,Synapse students get to see scientists in action,formulating research questions using state-of-the-art equipment to try to answer them.They also find out through that observation that their brain is incredibly complex and changing all the time.The Brainwave Learning Center is part of the broader Educational Neuroscience Initiative at the GSE that explores how changes in the brain‘s neurocircuitry support emerging skills that are foundational to education such as reading,math and attention.Researchers want to know how and why particular interventions benefit some learners and not others,and create new approaches that improve the educational experience for all students."We want to move beyond just categorizing akid at aC,B or Alevel of performance and start to understand why they‘re struggling with some things and why they‘re excelling in other things,"McCandliss explained.“Quantifying changes in brain signals over the course of learning,over the course of the school year,may open anew window into these questions.” 查看详细>>