During spring quarter, when students were learning from home, lecturers in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric created supportive virtual writing classrooms.
International students drive creativity and innovation in the U.S. and help make American universities more competitive, according to Ran Abramitzky, an economic historian who studies immigration impacts.
The Steering Committee of the Faculty Senate approved a one-year delay on a new academic policy – which had been scheduled to go into effect in the 2020-21 academic year – setting a 100-unit cap on undergraduate majors.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service has identified and connected students to remote learning, service and career opportunities.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, July 9, on two important presidential power cases. Stanford Law Professor David Sklansky discusses the two decisions and their implications.
Students from 29 undergraduate departmental and interdisciplinary honors programs were recently selected for the 2020 Firestone and Golden medals and the Kennedy Honors Thesis prizes.
What has been on the minds of Stanford professors as they navigate this turbulent and anxious time? Where do they find comfort and solace, challenge and struggle, beauty and grace?
Stanford scientists find the growth of phytoplankton in the Arctic Ocean has increased 57 percent over just two decades, enhancing its ability to soak up carbon dioxide. While once linked to melting sea ice, the increase is now propelled by rising concentrations of tiny algae.
In a message to the university community, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne discusses Stanford’s opposition to a new federal rule affecting international students this fall.
Deep-genome analyses conducted by Stanford Medicine researchers and their collaborators have settled a long-brewing controversy about whether ancient Polynesians and Native Americans had contact.
Stanford Impact Labs provides an innovative research and development pipeline for the social sciences, connecting researchers with leaders in the public, social and private sectors to develop evidence-driven solutions to social problems.
Social justice, inequality and poverty, the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., and anti-discrimination law are just some of the class topics Stanford Online is offering to the general public for free or at low cost this summer.
An administrative session of the Faculty Senate provided approval for four 10-week quarters in the coming academic year, along with a daily course meeting schedule for both online and in-person classes.
When the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, it was a call for the right to statehood rather than individual liberties, says Stanford historian Jack Rakove. Only after the American Revolution did people interpret it as a promise for individual equality.
A working group of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, led by two Stanford physicists, calls greater global cooperation “increasingly essential.”
A proposed change to federal regulations would give less consideration to the health benefits of air pollution rules. Mary Prunicki of Stanford’s Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research discusses likely outcomes for poor communities.
The study of sub-Saharan Africa finds that a relatively small increase in airborne particles significantly increases infant mortality rates. A cost-effective solution may lie in an exotic-sounding proposal.
Researchers have invented a way to slide atomically-thin layers of 2D materials over one another to store more data, in less space and using less energy.
Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom discusses the societal impacts of a new “working-from-home economy” and the challenges posed by the massive transition to widespread remote work.
Lucius J. Barker, a Stanford University political scientist who specialized in constitutional law, civil liberties and African American politics and served as president of the American Political Science Association, has died.
Stanford Law Professor Michelle Mello answers questions relating to California's biggest spike in COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began in March, with more than 7,000 new cases confirmed.
