From helping develop medical equipment to creating art, Stanford students from across departments and academic disciplines are finding ways to support their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
After learning that the county’s Public Health Lab was short-staffed and struggling to meet demand for testing, Stanford graduate student Paul Bump rallied his fellow researchers to volunteer their time.
Members of the Stanford campus community have responded with music ensembles and podcasts to a grant program created by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts to cultivate artistic engagement during the COVID‑19 pandemic.
First-year student Marcelo Peña has teamed up with researchers in his home country of Peru to develop a unique and affordable ventilator for treating patients with COVID-19.
Matthew Smith, chair of Stanford’s Theater and Performance Studies, discusses how his department is trying to make the magic of live theater happen remotely.
Some 40 students head to snowy Colorado each spring break to study extreme energy efficiency. This March, the class had to swap Rocky Mountain scenery for all-day Zoom sessions.
Undergraduate and graduate applicants for Stanford University’s 2021-22 academic year will get full consideration and won’t be at a disadvantage due to COVID-19 accommodations.
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans award provides support for immigrants, and the children of immigrants, to pursue graduate degrees at any U.S. university.
Nik Marda and Leya Elias are among the Americans selected for the award, which provides support for college juniors interested in public service careers.
Vice Provost for Student Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole has invited Stanford undergraduates to take a virtual walk with her and her dog, Riva, as a way of creating a connection with a widely dispersed campus community.
Mechanical engineering PhD student Deepak Krishnamurthy is among the 22 early-career scientists selected for the third Schmidt Science Fellows cohort of postdoctoral fellows.
Senior Riya Verma is the first Stanford student to win the prestigious Michel David-Weill Scholarship, which supports two years of graduate study at Sciences Po in Paris, France.
An interdisciplinary team of Stanford students created a virtual map showing where local schoolchildren can receive free meals during school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
For one local community college student, a research internship at Stanford sparked an intellectual journey that led them to transfer to the Farm and study how the media portrays police killings of black Americans.
Mona Hicks recently stepped into the role of senior associate vice provost and dean of students. She shares why she joined Stanford, the biggest challenges facing student affairs and her approach to helping students in distress.
Students from the class Global Black Feminism invited community members to an open house at Green Library to view archival materials related to underrepresented Black women who fought for civil and women’s rights across the world.
Faculty and students considering going to mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao during spring break are reminded that Stanford has restricted travel as a result of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
Although Stanford students studying at the Bing Stanford in Washington Program have front-row seats to historic events, their most substantive lessons may come from interactions with the people who make the U.S. government work day to day.
Susie Brubaker-Cole, vice provost for student affairs, sent a message to the campus community on Monday, January 20, on the death of Stanford student Eitan Michael Weiner.
John Alsterda, a doctoral student who is developing a new emergency avoidance controller for self-driving cars, is one of 91 military service veterans studying at Stanford.
In a new Spanish immersion class, senior Lily Foulkes and other Stanford students applied their language skills to helping detained Spanish-speaking asylum seekers in Texas prepare for credible fear interviews.
Senior Erica Scott and coterminal student Mustafa Fattah have been named Marshall Scholars and will use the scholarship to pursue graduate degrees in the United Kingdom.
