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Michaela Mross
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and, by courtesy, of East Asian Languages and Cultures
BioMichaela Mross specializes in Japanese Buddhism, with a particular emphasis on Sōtō Zen, Buddhist rituals, sacred music, as well as manuscript and print culture in premodern Japan. She has written numerous articles on kōshiki 講式 (Buddhist ceremonials) and co-edited a special issue of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies on kōshiki. Her first book, Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen, is forthcoming with the Kuroda Series of University of Hawai’i Press. She is currently working on a monograph on eisanka 詠讃歌 (Buddhist hymns) and lay Buddhist choirs in contemporary Zen Buddhism. This project will showcase how music played a vital role in the modernization of Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhism in the last seventy years.
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Mandla T. Msipa
Admit Weekend Coordinator, Political Science
Undergraduate, Political Science
Admit Weekend Coordinator, UGABioMandla Msipa (he/him) is an undergraduate at Stanford University pursuing a BA in Political Science with a minor in Education.
A Zimbabwean-American, Mandla spent 13 years in Harare under the SJET school system – he attained IGCSE and A Level qualifications from Cambridge International. After graduating in 2021, Mandla worked as a Junior Master at St John's College, Harare, primarily teaching in the History, English, and Drama departments.
At Stanford, Mandla is an International Mentor at Bechtel and a member of Stanford College Democrats, one of Stanford's political action organisations. In the summer of 2023, Mandla will be working in the DC office of a Democratic US Senator as a legislative intern.
Mandla's research interests lie at the intersection of politics, education, and the internet. Areas of interest are currently: strengthening governance structures in K-12 education; encouraging teacher-student relationships at the system level; promoting digital literacy in classrooms; investigating internet exposure in the early crystallisation of political ideology; scrutinising ICT as a tool for democratisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. -
Mary Beth Mudgett
Senior Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences and Susan B. Ford Professor
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy laboratory investigates how bacterial pathogens employ proteins secreted by the type III secretion system (TTSS) to manipulate eukaryotic signaling to promote disease. We study TTSS effectors in the plant pathogen Xanthomonas euvesicatoria, the causal agent of bacterial spot disease of pepper and tomato. For these studies, we apply biochemical, cell biological, and genetic approaches using the natural hosts and model pathosystems.
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Thomas Mullaney
Professor of History and, by courtesy, of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThomas S. Mullaney is Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, by courtesy. He is also the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress, and a Guggenheim Fellow.
He is the author or lead editor of 7 books, including The Chinese Typewriter (winner of the Fairbank prize), Your Computer is on Fire, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China, and the forthcoming The Chinese Computer—the first comprehensive history of Chinese-language computing.
His writings have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Technology & Culture, Aeon, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, and his work has been featured in the LA Times, The Atlantic, the BBC, and in invited lectures at Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and more. He holds a PhD from Columbia University. -
Mark Musen
Stanford Medicine Professor of Biomedical Informatics Research, Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) and of Biomedical Data Science
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsModern science requires that experimental data—and descriptions of the methods used to generate and analyze the data—are available online. Our laboratory studies methods for creating comprehensive, machine-actionable descriptions both of data and of experiments that can be processed by other scientists and by computers. We are also working to "clean up" legacy data and metadata to improve adherence to standards and to facilitate open science broadly.