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  • Julie Greicius

    Julie Greicius

    Associate Dean for Communications and Alumni Affairs, School of Engineering - External Relations

    BioJulie Greicius is Associate Dean of Communications and Alumni Affairs for Stanford Engineering. She was previously Senior Director of External Communications for Stanford Medicine, where she led media relations, crisis communications/issue management, and trademark name use. An award-winning writer and editor, she joined the School of Medicine as media relations manager in early 2018. In her prior role, she was editorial director for Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, where she developed and managed stories across all platforms, assisted in the rebranding and website renewal for Stanford Children’s Health, and directed and managed brand voice and messaging. Her career with Stanford Medicine began in 2006 when she joined Stanford Children's as a freelance writer. She has since written numerous articles for Stanford Medicine magazine and other Stanford Medicine publications. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University.

    'And yet, you try'
    A father's quest to save his son
    https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2016fall/milan-gambhirs-li-fraumeni-syndrome.html

    'The girl who loves science'
    The FAST program, led by Stanford graduate students, sparks a passion in teens for science careers
    https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2019spring/inspiring-teens-pursue-science-careers.html

    Despite MS, Eric Sibley prevails
    Eric Sibley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis just as his career in pediatric gastroenterology was taking off. But in his unique circumstances, he unlocked his potential as an academic advisor and role model.
    https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/01/sibley-navigate-own-health-challenges-to-reach-heights-of-25-year-career.html

    Hear and now
    Better, less costly treatments for hearing loss coming soon
    https://stanmed.stanford.edu/listening/treatment-hearing-loss-cusp-transformation.html

    Tomorrow’s hospital today
    Advanced technology and a design that puts well-being first come together in the new Stanford Hospital
    https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2019fall/new-stanford-hospital.html

    Stronger together
    A shared vision of Stanford Medicine’s future
    https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2018summer/shared-vision-future.html

    Switching Course
    Untangling a Birth Defect Decades Later
    https://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2014spring/article4.html

    Labor Day
    The C-Section Comes Under Review
    https://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2013fall/article5.html

    Stanford Children's Health: Healthier, Happy Lives blog
    https://healthier.stanfordchildrens.org/en/author/julie-greicius/

  • Michael Greicius, MD, MPH

    Michael Greicius, MD, MPH

    Iqbal Farrukh and Asad Jamal Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Administrative and Academic Special Programs)

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAs the Founding Director of the Stanford Center for Memory Disorders and Principal Investigator of a lab focused on the genetics of Alzheimer's disease (AD), Dr. Greicius' research focuses on elucidating the neurobiologic underpinnings of AD. His lab combines cutting edge brain imaging, "deep" phenotyping, and whole-genome sequencing of human subjects to identify novel pathways involved in AD pathogenesis. The goal of his work is to develop effective treatment for AD patients.

  • Avner Greif

    Avner Greif

    The Bowman Family Endowed Professor in Humanities and Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, Emeritus

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEuropean economic history: the historical development of economic institutions, their interrelations with political, social and cultural factors and their impact on economic growth.

  • Mark Greif

    Mark Greif

    Associate Professor of English and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature

    BioMark Greif’s scholarly work looks at the connections of literature to intellectual and cultural history, the popular arts, aesthetics and everyday ethics. He taught at the New School and Brown before coming to Stanford.

    He is the author of The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 (Princeton, 2015), which received the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas, and the Susanne M. Glasscock Prize for interdisciplinary humanities scholarship. His book Against Everything: Essays (Pantheon, 2016) was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Criticism. His current book concerns the history and aesthetics of pornography from the eighteenth century to the internet age.

    In 2003, Greif was a founder of the journal n+1, and has been a principal member of the organization since. His books as co-editor and co-author have included The Trouble is the Banks: Letters to Wall Street (n+1/FSG, 2012), Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America (Verso, 2011), and What Was the Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation (n+1/HarperCollins, 2010). His books and articles have been translated into German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

    He has been a Marshall Scholar, and has received fellowships from the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.

    Greif has written for publications including the London Review of Books, New York Times, Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Le Monde, and his essays have been selected for Best American Essays and the Norton Anthology. He remains interested in the relationships between high scholarship, literary and arts journalism, low culture, and small magazines.