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Our public impact-focused team shares timely analysis, insights, news, and ideas about the ways universities, governments, businesses, and nonprofits are working together to use evidence and experience to make progress on the world’s hardest social challenges.
We welcomed 25 new PhD fellows to our summer collaborative research program this year. They come from departments across the university, including, for the first time ever, the music department and graduate school of business. Karina Kloos, our partnerships lead, shares more about this year’s program to support impact-focused research.
Sarah Hopwood welcomes Alex Carr to Stanford Impact Labs’ programs and education team. The team runs the post-doctoral fellowship, PhD summer collaborative fellowship, and the hands-on Scholars in Service program. Each program builds skills and capabilities to strengthen public impact scholarship.
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In this Q&A, Stanford Impact Labs' postdoctoral fellow Max Hui Bai shares insights from his research about misinformation. He says, even when you know what you're reading is fake, it still affects your beliefs and attitudes. Knowing this may change how we—and the media—should respond.
Stanford Impact Labs Faculty Director Jeremy Weinstein welcomes Mallory Nobles as associate director of Stanford's new undergraduate major in Data Science and Social Systems. The new major is being incubated in Stanford Impact Labs.
Stanford Impact Labs is excited to welcome Juliet Lee as our inaugural director of finance and administration. As Stanford Impact Labs grows, we’re building the systems and processes to allow us to work effectively together. That means strong financial controls, a set of recruitment and retention practices to make Stanford Impact Labs a great place to work, and an operational backbone to help us do our work even better.