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Uncovering a forgotten chapter in U.S.-Russian history

Stanford students had the opportunity to explore historical materials housed at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives firsthand through the Bread + Medicine project.

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‘Principled Entrepreneurial Decisions’ teaches students to develop their ethical compass

A Stanford engineering course shows students how relying on principles and values can guide them through difficult professional and personal situations.

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Learning from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Stanford frosh read, attended, and discussed William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar as part of their COLLEGE winter course, Citizenship in the 21st Century.

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COLLEGE students explore concepts of citizenship

Frosh tackled some big questions about the ideals of citizenship and democracy for their second course in COLLEGE, Stanford’s newly restructured undergraduate requirement program.

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Students connect human and planetary health

More than 100 students from diverse backgrounds and fields of study were drawn to a fall class exploring the connection between the health of people and the environment, part of a wave of interest in classes about sustainability.

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COLLEGE prepares students for a lifetime of inquiry

Stanford’s newly restructured undergraduate requirement program encourages students to think critically across disciplines, reflect on their values, and consider how their education can lead them to purposeful lives.

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The history of Silicon Valley in objects

In a hands-on course taught during fall quarter, students designed their own museum exhibitions using archival materials from Stanford Libraries’ Silicon Valley Archives.

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How we tell the story of disease

Students in the interdisciplinary course Pathogens and Populations: Representing Infectious Disease explored the process of translating scientific information into art and identified what gets lost in translation.

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Immersive sustainability course embodies new school principles

Graduate students across disciplines participated in an immersive, weeklong summer course centered on systems thinking, transdisciplinary thinking and connecting research and practice that could be a model keystone experience for Stanford’s new school focused on climate and sustainability.

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