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When the the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the staff at MIT Medical knew they had to quickly adapt to continue to service their patients. So that’s exactly what they did. Building, testing and implementing a telehealth option in only a matter of weeks, and setting up an extensive testing facility quickly has put MIT Medical in … Read more Adapting during a pandemic at MIT Medical
Despite a global pandemic and some technical delays, NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover – the aptly named Perseverance – is scheduled to launch this summer (currently slated for July 30) on a groundbreaking endeavor. Perseverance will bring along a small, four-pound helicopter dubbed Ingenuity. The copter will be the first flying vehicle on another planet and … Read more Drone copter to take flight for the first time on Mars
With innovative tools and access to some of the most whale-friendly waters in the world, Stanford researchers aim to demystify the lives, biology and behavior of the largest creatures on Earth. SYNC ID: MB01KYUH7PSPQLK
FREE 3-month subscription to Ten Percent Happier App! Register at https://tinyurl.com/stanford-contemplation-happier to receive your access code and begin today. Establish or deepen your meditation practice with world-renowned teachers in the free, supportive Stanford Contemplation by Design Ten Percent Happier community. We will meet online Mondays at noon for Meditation followed by small group Reflection Conversations … Read more Contemplation By Design Ten Percent Happier Community 2020
When COVID-19 hit, students and alumni across Stanford’s seven schools began banding together to build solutions. One of those: a website, available in six languages, that helps vulnerable Bay Area residents access free food, medical treatment and legal assistance. Many of the project volunteers are international students who are navigating the pandemic while separated from … Read more Stanford students help Bay Area residents access food, health care and legal aid during COVID-19
Anne Slinn, executive director for research at MIT Center for Global Change Science and the MIT Joint Program on the Science of Policy of Global Change has been working remotely for over two years. She discusses the challenges for those knew to physical distancing and working away from campus and shares some advice she learned … Read more Just chip away
The largest, most rigorous independent study on Alcoholics Anonymous to date shows that AA can help people get sober, stay sober, drink less, and suffer fewer negative consequences of drinking, all while keeping health care costs down. Watch scientists John Kelly (Harvard/MGH) and Keith Humphreys (Stanford/VA) discuss their findings (published 3/11/20 by the Cochrane Collaborative), … Read more Does Alcoholics Anonymous Work?
Every year, students in Experimental Robotics program robots to complete a variety of fun and creative tasks. This year’s class was moved online due to COVID-19 but students used the same programming skill set in simulation to complete their tasks. The simulation features real time feedback and accurate physics. This year’s projects include commercial construction, … Read more Stanford students learn to program robots from home
In a graduate seminar taught by Stanford medical anthropologist Lochlann Jain, students examined how previous epidemics can illuminate the social dynamics and politics of the era. Read the story: https://news.stanford.edu/2020/06/25/learning-history-vaccines-disease/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ MB018BRKIZODMGR
In the second of the final series of four lectures targeted at helping students in Stanford’s iOS development course from Spring 2020 with their final projects, a powerful object-oriented database, Core Data, is used to enhance the previously-introduced Enroute application. To date in the course, the only storage place was UserDefaults, which was mostly used … Read more Lecture 12: Core Data
The penultimate lecture of Stanford’s Spring 2020 iOS development course covers more ways to store data, including in iCloud via CloudKit and into the iOS device’s own filesystem. CloudKit is a mechanism for storing the user’s data in the cloud so that it will appear on all of their devices. The relevant data types are … Read more Lecture 13: Persistence
The 11th lecture from Stanford’s Spring 2020 version of its iOS development course is the first of the final series of four lectures, all of which present topics intended to help the students with their final projects. Picker, a UI element for choosing from a list of items, is the primary topic here, but a … Read more Lecture 11: Picker
In the final lecture of Stanford’s iOS development course from Spring 2020, we discuss and demonstrate integration with the previous generation of the iOS development environment, UIKit. There is a lot of UIKit code out there in the world and being able to start using SwiftUI while still integrating with that code is crucial. In … Read more Lecture 14: UIKit Integration
It may have seemed like the deck was stacked against Camarillo. But top academic achievements, an impressive resume and a commitment to higher learning and public service are among the qualities that earned him a spot in the Class of 2020. Now a Stanford graduate with a bachelor’s degree in management science and engineering, Guillermo … Read more Stanford Class of 2020: Guillermo Camarillo
Seven factors have been shown to contribute to racist thought. Steven O. Roberts, assistant professor of psychology and co-director of Stanford’s Social Concepts Lab, describes them here, and shares strategies to minimize their effects. For more, visit: https://stanford.io/3ftC1Ey Musicbed SyncID: MB01NBZOTGCOPMP
