Stanford

Good thing that two Stanford professors who won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday are also neighbors. 

 David Starr Jordan was Stanford's president from 1891 through 1913.

This year's Big Game will be played the day after Thanksgiving.

Between Aug. 1 and Sept. 10, the unprecedented unhealthy concentrations of wildfire smoke were responsible for at least 1,200 and possibly up to 3,000 deaths in California that otherwise would not have occurred, according to an estimate by researchers at Stanford University. 

The big score for Stanford football, and its cross-Bay rival Cal, could come Friday. Leaders of the PAC-12 Conference will meet virtually to discuss launching the 2020 season.

Trump last week announced that Dr. Scott Atlas, a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser.

Stanford University will not have undergrads return to campus this fall as planned. Instead, almost all instruction will be done remotely.

Pac-12 football, all sports, are canceled this season because of health concerns from the coronavirus pandemic. The hope is play will return in the spring.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, joined Stanford University's dean of medicine Monday for a talk on the challenges and medical progress made in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

Stanford was already facing some difficult financial choices as it tried to support one of the nation's largest athletics departments.

Stanford researchers are hopeful soon-to-start clinical trials will result in a drug in pill form that will lessen the effects of COVID-19 on patients.

Dexamethasone is a promising new treatment for people seriously ill with the coronavirus. It’s a common anti-inflammatory that has been found to save lives and researchers call it a major breakthrough.

Since its founding in 2005, the institute's work has mainly been to edit and publish a multi-volume edition of King's papers.

Stanford Health Care workers are being forced to take mandatory furloughs during the coronavirus outbreak, which is basically asking frontline healthcare workers to take pay cuts during a crisis, according to the workers' union.

Stanford University released results Friday of the nation's first large-scale community study of antibodies for the new coronavirus SARS-CoV2.

In the fight against COVID-19, they may be the next frontier—antibody tests.