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Stanford reglab Princeton and the county of Santa Clara collaborate to use ai to identify and map racial covenants from over 5 million deed records

AI finds racial restrictions in millions of property records

California law requires counties to remove racially restrictive language – constitutionally unenforceable since 1948 – from property deeds. Researchers trained a large language model to help.

What if IV medicines could be taken in pill form?

A new method for delivering drugs could make it possible for chemotherapy patients to take pills rather than receive infusions.

The search for water in space yields engineering gains on Earth

The possibility of detecting habitable water under the surface of Europa is just one of the reasons geophysicist and Clipper team member Dustin Schroeder is excited about the mission to Jupiter’s icy moon.
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Announcement

Research Communication from VPDoR for Chairs and Directors

November 25, 2024

Happy Thanksgiving week! I hope your fall quarter continues to be productive and invigorating. This month, I am sharing updates on the following topics:

- New CHIPS Design and Collaboration Semiconductor facility
- Welcoming new leadership to the Industrial Contracts Office
- Reminder: Free Travel Medicine Services in EH&S

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