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“What is biodiversity?” Professor Rodolfo Dirzo poses the question to his Conservation Biology (HumBio 112) class, and hands shoot up confidently around the room. “Number of species,” comes the immediate response–an answer Dirzo expects, the same…
This fall, as students returned to campus life, the Program in Human Biology proudly welcomed longtime community member Dr. William Talbot as its new Program Director. For many in the Stanford community, Talbot is already a familiar face.…
After two decades of service, achievements, and contributions to the Program in Human Biology and the greater Stanford community, Dr. Catherine “Cathy” Heaney, an esteemed professor of psychiatry and member of the Stanford Prevention Research…
When HumBio senior Peyton Klein ‘25 first stepped onto Stanford's campus as a freshman, the landscape of campus life and community looked a little different from what it had been. The world, including life at Stanford, had been reshaped by the…
Friendships might be seen by some as a ‘nice-to-have’–a social bonus rather than a necessity. Yet in reality, loneliness and isolation have become widespread public health crises, even as we live in an era of endless digital connections (U.S.…