Five Indigenous and Native-identifying students talk about their paths to Stanford, finding community, and what they hope others will learn from their experiences.
Rayne Sullivan, a second-year student at Stanford Law School, served as a delegate to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, and was one of two U.S. representatives at the United National Climate Youth Summit in Milan, Italy.
Sayeh Kohani, who is studying bioengineering and public policy, has won a 2022 Rhodes Scholarship, which provides all expenses for two or three years of graduate study at the University of Oxford in England.
Leading visual and performing artists engage deeply with students and faculty, and share their work with the broader Stanford community. Among the fall 2021 cohort are several artists who were invited to extend their original terms due to the pandemic.
Stanford researchers have been working to weave critical concepts of equitable sustainability and environmental justice into research, teaching and community-based learning, including through a new environmental justice minor.
Cardinal swimmer Brooke Forde won a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics and now sets her eyes on the future. Her passion for the environment and climate change motivates her to make a difference in the world.
The Research, Action and Impact for Strategic Engagement, or RAISE, Fellowship will support doctoral students pursuing research and scholarship addressing social issues.
Above & Beyond Sex Ed and The PEERs are two new educational programs at Stanford related to forming healthy relationships and preventing sexual violence.
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.
Sophia Nesamoney, ’23, and Keona Blanks, ’24, conducted the research with Stanford pediatrics Professor Gary Darmstadt as part of the King Center’s Academic Year Part-Time Research Assistant Program.
Matthew Rascoff, vice provost for digital education, talks about the newly created office that will marshal Stanford’s teaching and learning expertise and technological capabilities to reach students who have been historically underserved by higher education.
Step Up Tutoring, a nonprofit organization co-founded by a Stanford student and an alum during the pandemic, provides free, online tutoring to third through sixth graders in a partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District.
On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, four Stanford scholars and leading experts in national security, terrorism and contemporary conflict – Condoleezza Rice, Amy Zegart, Martha Crenshaw and Lisa Blaydes – reflect on how their teaching of the terrorist attacks has evolved.
Fighting fire after fire in ever-growing wildfire seasons, CAL FIRE is in search of innovative prevention and response strategies. Stanford students address this need by successfully tackling some of the biggest problems in wildfire management with fresh perspectives.
Under the new Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEaD) program, the School of Medicine invited college students from across the country to spend the summer doing population health research, working one-on-one with faculty mentors.
During the 2020-21 academic year, 49 Stanford students worked in virtual internships in 19 countries through the university’s Global Studies Internship Program.
StanfordVotes, a nonpartisan student group dedicated to increasing voter turnout, posted “The Ultimate Sept. 14 California Recall Election Guide” to help student voters understand the ballot and find nearby ballot drop boxes, early voting sites and polling places.
The Three Books Program, a cherished tradition at Stanford, invites new undergraduate students to participate in a common, shared intellectual experience. This year’s program features two memoirs, a film, a National Public Radio podcast and a TED Talk.
Kartik Chandra, who studied computer science, English and physics at Stanford, won two fellowships that will support his graduate studies in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Undergraduate Human Biology students Gaby Escobar and Nadia Segura are asking for the Stanford community’s help for a back to school drive they have organized with the Department of General Pediatrics to support youth in the community.
This summer, 19 undergraduate students are participating in faculty research projects through the Stanford Earth Summer Undergraduate Research program.
Beatriz Stix-Brunell, who gave her farewell performance with the Royal Ballet in London a week ago, will begin her academic career as an undergraduate at Stanford in the fall.
Stanford public policy undergrad Liam Anderson has spent hundreds of hours over the last six years volunteering for the Marin County Search and Rescue Team. Last week, he served as plan section chief in the search for missing runner Philip Kreycik.
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As part of a series celebrating and discussing identity, four Stanford Earth community members talk about how disability, neurodivergence and chronic illness have informed and impacted their careers.
In the largest Deliberative Polling experiment focused on young adults, Stanford students saw firsthand how informed discussion can change how people think about the world and each other.
When then-Stanford student Jackie Botts got to help Reuters staff as part of her Stanford journalism class, little did she know it would culminate into Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage.
