H&S News and Events
The pace never slows at Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences. Every day, students and faculty unveil meaningful discoveries and produce original scholarship. They create and investigate, collaborate and communicate, at all hours and in every corner of campus.
That intellectual energy extends far beyond department walls. Through lectures, conferences, performances and exhibitions, H&S scholars reflect and engage with the Stanford community and experts from around the world.
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Latest News
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- Wild blue yonder: Engineers tackle challenges of hypersonic flight
- May 14 - A multiyear collaboration among Stanford engineering departments uses some of the world’s fastest supercomputers to model the complexities of hypersonic flight. Someday, their work may lead to planes that fly at many times the speed of sound. Read more »
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- Stanford professor, IT specialist create interactive map of the Roman Empire
- May 14 - New online map shows how much time and money went into traveling the Roman Empire. Classics Professor Walter Scheidel says the dynamic tool lets users interact in ways they wouldn’t be able to with a traditional map. Read more »
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- BaBar Data Preserved in ‘Computational Cocoon’ for Future Analysis
- May 14 - by Lori Ann White Scientists are still busy analyzing data from the BaBar experiment, which shut down in 2008. When their work winds down and new questions pop up, will that data still be available to researchers looking for answers to other important… Read more »
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- Amy J. Blue Award winner Donnovan Yisrael, guiding students to good choices
- May 13 - Donnovan Yisrael, who has been on staff at Vaden Health Center since 1998, has been trying to understand and, more important, trying to get the students he works with to understand, why they engage in risky behaviors, whether it’s regretted sex, drinking too much or what he calls his “über-example”… Read more »
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- Hip-hop reigns at Stanford’s BlackFest 2012
- May 13 - Kendrick Lamar and E-40 are to perform at BlackFest 2012, which will take place at Frost Amphitheater. Read more »
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- Hume Writing Center celebrates 10-year anniversary May 16-17
- May 13 - The George and Leslie Hume Writing Center celebrates its 10th anniversary this week. The center’s birthday party also will acknowledge the legacy of retiring English Professor Andrea Lunsford. Read more »
Upcoming EventsView all »
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- School of Fontainebleau: Prints from the Kirk Edward Long Collection
- Ongoing every day from April 17, 2013 through July 21, 2013. 11:00 AM.
Cantor Arts Center, just off Palm Drive, at Museum Way and Lomita Drive
When the French king Francis I began in 1527 to transform a country chateau, Fontainebleau, into a truly royal residence, he hired Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Primaticcio, and other esteemed Italian… Read more »
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- Linkages between food systems and human health in Africa
- Thursday, October 11, 2012. 3:30 PM.
Bechtel Conference Room, Encina Hall
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University will talk about new evidence on the linkages… Read more »
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- Guardians: Photographs by Andy Freeberg
- Ongoing every day from July 25, 2012 through January 6, 2013. 11:00 AM.
Cantor Arts Center, just off Palm Drive, at Museum Way and Lomita Drive
The exhibition, which remains on view through January 6, 2013, presents 16 critically acclaimed portraits of art museum guards in contemporary Russia as they protect treasured paintings and sculptures in… Read more »
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H&S Stories About Passion:
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- Tommy Tobin
- Tobin is committed to giving back to his community. Watch »
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- Chase Mendenhall
- Mendenhall is a PhD student studying ecology and evolutionary biology. Watch »
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- Jhanvi Shriram
- Shriram explores the intersection of democracy and media with her camera. Watch »
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