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SPARQ 2025 Year-End Newsletter is Out!

Check out our December 2025 newsletter for updates and highlights from the past year from the SPARQ team and our affiliates. Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year!

As 2025 comes to a close, we share some annual highlights and updates from the team at Stanford SPARQ and our affiliates. Thank you for your support in sparking change. Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year! 

More News

  • Markus, Thomas, and Walton Receive 2026 Otto Klineberg Award

    Aug 19, 2026
    Co-Director Hazel Markus, Faculty Affiliates Catherine Thomas and Greg Walton, and co-authors received SPSSI's 2026 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award for their paper on culturally wise interventions to reduce poverty.

  • How Do Laws Shape Our Beliefs?

    Aug 12, 2026
    Postdoc Fellow Mikaela Spruill published a new paper on “legal enculturation” - a framework for how laws shape people’s beliefs and perceptions.