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Janine Zacharia
Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInterested in new forms of foreign correspondence, how stories go viral, the intersection between technology/social media and national security. Middle East/Israel is my main area of reporting expertise.
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Jamil Zaki
Associate Professor of Psychology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on the cognitive and neural bases of social behavior, and in particular on how people respond to each other's emotions (empathy), why they conform to each other (social influence), and why they choose to help each other (prosociality).
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Richard Zare
Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Natural Science and Professor, by courtesy, of Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research group is exploring a variety of topics that range from the basic understanding of chemical reaction dynamics to the nature of the chemical contents of single cells.
Under thermal conditions nature seems to hide the details of how elementary reactions occur through a series of averages over reagent velocity, internal energy, impact parameter, and orientation. To discover the effects of these variables on reactivity, it is necessary to carry out studies of chemical reactions far from equilibrium in which the states of the reactants are more sharply restricted and can be varied in a controlled manner. My research group is attempting to meet this tough experimental challenge through a number of laser techniques that prepare reactants in specific quantum states and probe the quantum state distributions of the resulting products. It is our belief that such state-to-state information gives the deepest insight into the forces that operate in the breaking of old bonds and the making of new ones.
Space does not permit a full description of these projects, and I earnestly invite correspondence. The following examples are representative:
The simplest of all neutral bimolecular reactions is the exchange reaction H H2 -> H2 H. We are studying this system and various isotopic cousins using a tunable UV laser pulse to photodissociate HBr (DBr) and hence create fast H (D) atoms of known translational energy in the presence of H2 and/or D2 and using a laser multiphoton ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer to detect the nascent molecular products in a quantum-state-specific manner by means of an imaging technique. It is expected that these product state distributions will provide a key test of the adequacy of various advanced theoretical schemes for modeling this reaction.
Analytical efforts involve the use of capillary zone electrophoresis, two-step laser desorption laser multiphoton ionization mass spectrometry, cavity ring-down spectroscopy, and Hadamard transform time-of-flight mass spectrometry. We believe these methods can revolutionize trace analysis, particularly of biomolecules in cells. -
Amy Zegart
Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, at the Stanford Institute for HAI, and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsU.S. intelligence, cybersecurity, political risk, grand strategy
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Dan Zeltzer
Visiting Assistant Professor
BioDan Zeltzer is a tenured faculty member at the Tel Aviv University Berglas School of Economics and an affiliate of both IZA and CESifo. An applied microeconomist, he earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and specializes in Health Economics. For the academic year 2023/4, Dan is a visiting assistant professor at Stanford's Economics Department. His research is currently directed towards understanding the transformation in healthcare driven by advancements in digitization, emerging care models such as urgent care centers and telemedicine, and the innovative applications of predictive modeling and artificial intelligence.
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Mayshu Zhan
Ph.D. Student in Modern Thought and Literature, admitted Autumn 2023
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy interdisciplinary research examines digital media through the lens of critical race, gender, and sexuality studies. I am primarily interested in investigating how we can leverage the power of media to reinvent and promote social equality. Specifically, my research focuses on digital games and their prosocial influence on 21st- century China.
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Albert Zhang
Undergraduate, Symbolic Systems
BioHello, I'm from Atlanta and a member of the class of 2023. I attended The Westminster Schools in Atlanta and The Hotchkiss School, a boarding school in rural Connecticut. I'm interested in Product Design, Symbolic Systems, Psychology, and Economics. As a long-time avid visual artist, I love the design process, from brainstorming to visualizing to critiquing. I hope to combine my interest in design with technology and entrepreneurship to make new inventions to solve problems. In addition, I'm interested in behavioral economics and how consumers react.
