More than a thousand Stanford students and other university affiliates have joined Club Cardinal, a new, virtual Stanford campus that’s connecting the community remotely.
At a special meeting on July 30, the Faculty Senate approved new grading policies for the 2020-21 academic year, including one stating that all university courses offered for a letter grade must also give students the option of taking the course for a credit/no credit grade.
Stanford MBA candidate Joshua Yang is part of an international team of graduate students and postdocs who took the top prize for designing a platform that could lead to new cancer treatments.
Provost Persis Drell is allocating funds to enable all doctoral students in good academic standing to receive 12 months of funding for up to five years.
Stanford Medicine student Joshua Swee is a co-founder of the nonprofit DonatePPE, a nationwide effort to connect charitable donations to hospitals and medical workers battling COVID-19.
With help from his classmates at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Judd Olanoff, MBA ’20, has launched a journalism platform that’s reimagining the news industry for a young, modern audience.
During spring quarter, when students were learning from home, lecturers in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric created supportive virtual writing classrooms.
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.
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.
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.
The Supreme Court’s ruling last week that federal law protects gay and transgender workers from discrimination was facilitated, in part, by law students working in the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.
This year’s Experimental Robotics class was moved online due to COVID-19 but students used the same programming skillset in simulation to complete their tasks.
Among Stanford’s 2020 graduates is Guillermo Camarillo, whose unlikely path to the Farm was paved in part by a “village” of people who supported his pursuit of higher education.
The Stanford community gathered virtually Sunday to reflect on the accomplishments of this year’s graduates, thank them for their contributions to the university, and offer reassurance as they embark on new beginnings in a changed world.
Graduating senior Jenny Vo-Phamhi’s research shows how human trafficking in the Roman world can shed light on the problem in the U.S. today, and what can be done to stop it.
Like all Stanford graduates this year, Ken Neff, who has earned a Master of Liberal Arts degree, won’t have a chance to don cap, gown and stole for the traditional Commencement. But he and some of his classmates have come up with a novel substitute.
Senior Amir Abou-Jaoude, a Hume Honors Fellow, will be among some 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students earning Stanford degrees this year. A June 14 virtual celebration will recognize their achievements as the university postpones its traditional Commencement.
Munira Alimire, ’22, and Vianna Vo’s, ’21, election to president and vice president of the Associated Students of Stanford University comes amid a torrent of disruption to student life.
Teaching students about the existential threat of a pandemic as they are living through one can help make the danger feel less hypothetical and much more real.
Stanford student-veterans are continuing their service to others by volunteering to train dogs to be service companions through Warrior Canine Connection.
Snehal Naik is the new senior director of the Stanford Office of Student Engagement and Abiya Ahmed is the new associate dean and director of The Markaz.
Stanford sophomores James Kanoff and Stella Delp created the not-for-profit FarmLink to salvage surplus food from farmers and donate it to overwhelmed food banks.
The Stanford Energy Ventures course helps passionate entrepreneurs develop novel energy solutions and has launched almost 20 startups worth more than $30 million over the past three years.
The Faculty Senate approved measures designed to renew undergraduate education, and heard updates on various campus issues from President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell.
