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Students recognized for promoting civic engagement and dialogue

Two Stanford students receive the ePluribus Stanford Award for their work advancing civil discourse on campus.

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Stanford Statisticians Tackle COVID-19

This stories series presents three studies in the Department of Statistics addressing the coronavirus outbreak using different approaches: tracking genetic mutations in the coronavirus, developing a more practical approach to predictive modelling, and designing clinical trials of promising new treatments.

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Stanford Campus

H&S community earns 3 Dinkelspiel, 5 Gores awards

Ornithology class brings students face to face with ‘neodinosaurs’

Collage of current SSF cohort

Stanford Science Fellows 2026 cohort announced

Two seated students look intensely at a speaker as they perform Richard III

New English courses fuse creativity with literary criticism

The Tech Ethics and Policy Fellows pose for a photo together

Fellowship program positions students to lead at intersection of public policy and technology

Judith Richardson answers a question from a student (facing away) who has their hand raised

New course showcases humanities, social science offerings for undergrads

Stanford initiative seeks to bring more languages online

A photo of Joshua Redman playing saxophone while student musicians accompany him

Jamming with Joshua Redman

A young woman holds out her arm for a gloved medical professional to swab it for a sweat test.

Course offers personal perspectives on cystic fibrosis

Still from Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune by Dominic Yarabe

Sundance Film Festival to feature five films connected to Stanford documentary program

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Economics major expanded to better suit different career paths

Two people sit with their backs together, in disagreement

Teaching skills for challenging times

Image of hand on top of alarm clock

Sleep experts share strategies to minimize jet lag’s effects on college athlete performance and health

Three packets of European cigarettes sitting upright on a table

Philip Morris made cigarettes at Auschwitz in the 1990s

Student-curated exhibit reimagines museum practice

Statistician Dennis Sun stands in front of sandstone pillars and wall

The versatility of statistics and data science across majors

A woman stands in front of a long table with six chess boards and six seated players

Iranian Studies program hosts chess champion and women's rights activist

Image of Muwekma garden plants and a person watering the seedlings with a watering can

New gift will help Stanford reimagine Native American Studies through a 21st-century Indigenous lens

Image of the five 2024 Stanford Science Fellows

2024 cohort of Stanford Science Fellows named

Marina Johnson and Ava Jeffs stand under the arcades along Stanford's Main Quad

Students will explore Taylor Swift’s lyrics as literature in new course

Headshots of Brian Conrad and Rafe Mazzeo. Conrad is in front of a blackboard with math figures on it. Mazzeo is front of the sandstone columns along Stanford's Main Quad.

Q&A: Math faculty discuss restructuring intro courses and supporting student success

Sterling award winners 2022

2022 Sterling Award winners honor their mentors

How graphic novels can accelerate critical thinking, capture nuance and complexity of history

Teaching the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks

Stanford arcades

Fellows program continues its support for Humanities and Sciences graduate students

Putting deliberative democracy into action

Collage of four award winners Sierra Ha, Madeline Kim, Keith Nobbs, Ayesha Pasha

Sterling Award winners honor their mentors

Stanford announces 2020 Cuthbertson, Dinkelspiel and Gores awards

Citizenship course piloted

How diseases and history are intertwined

Quad arch

New Dean’s Fellows Program supports H&S graduate students during turbulent times

Dangerous Ideas lectures now available to Stanford community

chemistry kit

At-home chemistry kits allow students to create lab experiences remotely

Stanford writing lecturers and students find their virtual footing

Online courses about inequality, social justice

Mark Applebaum plays guitar while sitting at keyboard

Creative Agency During a Pandemic

Stanford graduate student proves education is important at any age

From Ancient Greece to Hollywood

Teaching Preventing Human Extinction course amidst COVID-19

Humanities Core has new integrated global focus

Tiny figures stand on rows of 0s and 1s

Stanford statisticians: Exploring uncertainty

Stanford University supports creative community during COVID‑19 pandemic

Researchers in lab coats working in a lab

Stanford biologists transfer specialized skills to COVID-19 testing

Theater and COVID-19

Stanford Students Choose the Humanities

Two Stanford students named Truman Scholars

Makerspaces at Stanford

Stanford course moves beyond the missions in Native American studies

Stanford students challenge perspectives through art

As it prepares to rename Jane Stanford Way, Stanford honors its relationship with the Muwekma Ohlone

Bridging political divides

Neuroscience through the lens of rock climbing

Supporting Stanford PhD and postdoc job searches

A Stanford junior reflects on her academic journey

Stanford students help produce a major work of art at the new Stanford Hospital

Stanford psychology graduate student Natalia Vélez is ‘The Science Sketcher’

Summertime at Stanford – a time for two rising seniors to do gender-related research

Back to school

Talented high school students get a taste of college life at Stanford

Grad student awarded $10K to create multimedia project with San Francisco homeless

Stanford labs welcome teachers for summer research fellowships

Three Books program invites new students to think about cities

Stanford grad students develop award-winning app that streamlines U.S. Air Force training

New exhibition showcases Northwest Coast indigenous art

A commitment to her Native American roots leads Stanford’s Aliyah Chavez to a journalism career

Stanford’s 2019 Cuthbertson, Dinkelspiel and Gores awards honor faculty, students and staff

Examining bilingual behavior of children at Texas preschool

Stanford students with military affiliations remember the fallen on Memorial Day

Global poverty research center gets major philanthropic boost

Stanford grads explore public service careers through fellowships

For learning, a chatbot that teaches beats flashcards

What it’s like to be a theoretical physicist

Political scientist Bruce Cain wins Stanford Roland Volunteer Service Prize

Scientists speak up at Stanford

Move responsibly and think about things

Uncovering the lives of Chinese workers who built Stanford

Stanford junior wins 2019 Truman Scholarship for graduate studies

Five scholars with Stanford ties awarded 2019 Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Stanford student’s ancestor helped build the Central Pacific Railroad

Stanford’s African and African American Studies program turns 50

Chemistry students provide space for underrepresented groups in science

Five people with Stanford affiliations announced as 2019 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Monumental installation melds art and science at Cantor Arts Center

Stanford’s renovated Pigott Theater shows off Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull

New faculty draw on diverse subjects and backgrounds to open eyes, challenge students

Four Stanford students win 2019 Gates Cambridge Scholarships

The rockstar on campus

Faculty Senate discusses Stanford’s Honor Code and Fundamental Standard