An electronic kennel door opener for dog owners with dexterity issues is one of eight prototypes designed by student teams to solve community members’ real-world challenges.
Michael Genesereth on giving teens tools for thought
The computer science professor says stand-alone logic courses at the high school level prepare students for college and life. This spring, he launches an international logic olympiad to inspire interest in the subject.
In a spring quarter course taught by Deans Debra Satz and Paul Brest, scholars with opposing viewpoints will model meaningful conversations about some of the most polarizing issues facing college campuses and society.
A new course, leaning into the unsettled state of college admissions, seeks to open a broader conversation about universities and their contributions to society.
An introductory seminar dives into the technologies behind the shadowy photos of anatomy that give clinicians a window into our most personal of spaces.
Nobel laureates and MacArthur fellows offer lessons in perseverance
In a unique fall quarter class, students heard stories of perseverance and failure from faculty whose discoveries have earned them academia’s most prestigious awards.
Students in Bing Overseas Studies Program’s global seminar in Oaxaca learned first hand how the area’s Indigenous communities work in concert with local ecosystems. “In your head, you think of a national park that’s far away from everybody. But a lot of times, biodiversity is in people’s neighborhoods.”
Navajo silversmiths share generations of design expertise
Visiting artists Zefren Anderson and Robert Blackhat Jr. spent two and a half days with Stanford Arts Intensive students this summer, demonstrating cutting-edge technology and techniques honed over thousands of years.
GSB program offers business classes for undergraduates
A new program allows juniors and seniors to take GSB courses designed for them, with the goal of encouraging students from a range of majors to think about markets, decision-making, and leadership.
Undergraduate fellows gained hands-on experience in botany and ecology at Stanford’s biological preserve this summer, making a trove of plant data available to the public and implementing and testing a wildfire management plan that reduces risk for the local community.
Confirmation bias and other decision-making pitfalls
For nearly two decades, organizational behavior Professor Francis Flynn has introduced incoming GSB students to key concepts of applied social psychology. “When the stakes are high, blindly relying on our intuition might not be enough.”
Students craft silver pendants in the Product Realization Lab
In a workshop at the Product Realization Lab, students from a variety of disciplines used computer-aided design, 3D printing, and a lost-wax casting process to create unique silver pendants.
With science fiction as inspiration, faculty encouraged students in the course "Imagining Adaptive Societies" to imagine a future where people thrive in a sustainable and equitable world.
Students build augmented reality experiences with devices from iPads for Learning program
The program explores how iPads can impact teaching, learning, and research and allowed journalism students to explore the intersection of extended reality and journalism.
A new spring quarter course examined Stanford’s past, including the people, personalities, and politics that have made the university what it is today.
