The doubling of SESI’s chilled water capacity will help minimize the risks of energy curtailments at Stanford campus buildings and hospitals during heat waves.
Serra Mall will be renamed Jane Stanford Way, effective Oct. 7, following clearance by Santa Clara County and the U.S. Postal Service. The step implements a proposal that came out of a campus review process last year.
A recently vacated building in Stanford Research Park will be the future home of a new life science incubator and lab suites. Located near campus, this incubator will serve as an anchor for a preeminent life science district.
The university says a development agreement would allow it to provide benefits for the campus community and neighboring residents while providing long-term certainty of the rules affecting its future land use.
Stanford’s iconic amphitheater reopens after extensive renovations and upgrades that make it one of the premiere music venues in the Bay Area and a place for university pomp and circumstance.
The building housing Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research has been renamed to honor Stanford alumna and psychologist Carolyn Lewis Attneave, who is credited with establishing the field of Native American mental health. Dorothy Attneave, her daughter, spoke at the dedication.
To encourage community and intellectual engagement on campus, the White Plaza region will be redesigned as a vibrant town center. The team leading the project is currently gathering ideas from the campus community, including at a town hall event on Wednesday.
Members of the campus community gathered to rename a residence hall in memory of pioneering astronaut Sally Ride, with her mother, Joyce Ride, in attendance. Also at the event, Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne acknowledged and honored the contributions of Native Americans to Stanford University.
At Stanford Redwood City yesterday, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Provost Persis Drell, Redwood City Mayor Ian Bain and Redwood City Vice Mayor Diane Howard cut a ceremonial red ribbon to celebrate the opening of the new state-of-the-art campus.
The Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Biology Research Building provides laboratory space for Stanford’s top-ranked Biology Department faculty and staff, as well as hundreds of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Based on a process that relied on suggestions and research from the university community, the former Serra undergraduate dormitory and Serra House academic building will now honor two graduates who became world leaders in their fields.
The first floor of the Cecil H. Green Library will be renovated and renamed Hohbach Hall, offering improved access to curators, historians and materials that document the creation and continuing evolution of Silicon Valley.
Santa Clara County has issued a final environmental impact report confirming earlier analysis that the land use permit is an environmentally sustainable and responsible plan.
A second solar-generating plant, to be built in the next three years, will complete the university’s transition to clean power and further shrink campus greenhouse gas emissions.
Located 5 miles from the main campus, Stanford Redwood City, a 35-acre development, is the university’s first major expansion outside the main campus. Staff members are scheduled to begin moving in mid-March 2019.
The latest additions are what university planners say may be a growing number of campus roundabouts, which are designed to improve safety for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists.
With the success of Stanford’s worksites in downtown San Jose and Newark, Stanford is expanding to a third co-working office space managed by Regus in San Francisco, starting October 1.
The region’s housing crunch is proving to be a challenging issue as Stanford continues discussions with the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on the university’s proposed General Use Permit, which forecasts facility needs through 2035.
Two campus buildings currently named for Junipero Serra, the founder of the California mission system, also will be renamed, but other campus references to Serra and the mission system will be retained, based on a set of university committee recommendations that have been accepted by the Board of Trustees.
The project will provide private changing and shower spaces for all patrons of the facility, including minors who are prohibited from adult changing areas on campus.
Two majestic griffins have been sitting in storage since 2005, when they last guarded the entrance to a now-demolished men’s gymnasium. After a few nips and tucks, they are being returned to campus to help oversee the pathway leading to the Stanford Mausoleum.
Catherine Palter, associate vice president for land use and environmental planning, discusses how Stanford is addressing housing challenges facing the university community as part of its application for an updated General Use Permit.
At Stanford, students study all over campus. University Photographer Linda A. Cicero has captured images of students doing the hard work of studying in a multitude of campus spaces, indoors and out.
With the college bookstore marketplace evolving nationwide, campus administrators and Stanford Bookstore managers are asking campus community members to share their vision of the bookstore of tomorrow.
The buildings are taking shape at Stanford's new campus, while a variety of other planning activities are progressing in anticipation of the campus opening in 2019.
The dynamic space is designed to enhance cooperation and efficiency across Hoover’s departments and provide conference and workshop facilities to host hundreds of visitors.
