In the Moment
January 28, 2026
Members of the H&S communications team listen and take notes for a story about quantum computing as Jon Simon (in maroon), professor of physics and of applied physics, discusses his optical cavity array.
November 11, 2025
History Professor Caroline Winterer discusses an oversized folio of flora and fauna from the Carolinas, Florida, and the Bahamas made for the queen of England that is part of Green Library's special collections. With no classes held on Nov. 4, a Stanford academic holiday known as Democracy Day that coincides with Election Day, history students had the opportunity to visit the Barchas Room and interact with 32 objects of significance to colonial America.
Photo by Evan Ludington
October 20, 2025
Martin Luther King, III (left) and Arndrea Waters King visit Professor Lerone Martin’s Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom class in advance of the event celebrating the opening of the new home for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute on Stanford’s Main Quad.
Photo by David Gonzales.
July 10, 2025
Construction is underway to transform Building 80 into the home of the new Department of African and African American Studies. The space will open in fall 2025.
Photo by Harrison Truong for Stanford University
May 21, 2025
First-year student Serena Young conducts sociological observations in Stanford’s White Plaza to see how the plaza and pavilion are used by community members. Her observations and interviews, and those of other volunteers, will go toward a larger assessment of Stanford’s public spaces.
Photo by Harrison Truong for Stanford University.
April 11, 2025
Photographer LiPo Ching captures a rainbow on a winter day at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Ching produced stunning images of the preserve for a photo story about seasonal change at this unique H&S education and research site.
Photo by Dan Quinn, JRBP docent
March 5, 2025
Vanessa Barone [seated right], assistant professor of biology in H&S, meets with members of two lab teams in the collaboration space of the newly opened Molecular and Cellular Biodiversity Imaging Center at Hopkins Marine Station.
Photo by LiPo Ching/Stanford University
February 11, 2025
History student Christian Robles-Baez explores part of the digital collection at Stanford's David Rumsey Map Center during a tour organized by the Department of History to familiarize its students with the center's resources.
Photo by LiPo Ching/Stanford University.
January 17, 2025
Lerone A. Martin, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor and professor of Religious Studies and of African and African American Studies in H&S speaks at the 2025 King & Faith Symposium at Memorial Church: The Day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Came to Stanford. Attendees watched a recording of Dr. King’s 1967 speech at Stanford.
Photo by LiPo Ching/Stanford University.