Over the last half-century, students in the ME310 course have produced hundreds of prototypes for cameras, makeup, cars and much more. Combined with international teams, they design and develop new products while learning from reality.
The Stanford Data Challenge Lab class meets every day and requires nearly 100 homework assignments. But innovative instruction has students clamoring to take the class, which teaches professional-level data skills.
Projects in The Senior Reflection mix science with art. They have included documentaries, sculptures and performances and expressed students’ views on nature, health and personal experiences.
Katharine Ku joined the Office of Technology Licensing in 1981 and became its executive director in 1991. After 27 years leading the effort to bring Stanford technologies to the world, she will retire June 1.
Satz will assume her new position on Sept. 1. She will succeed Richard Saller, who has served as dean for 11 years and is returning to full-time teaching.
During his annual address to the Academic Council, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne outlined initiatives that university leaders believe will set an agenda for Stanford in the next decade and beyond. The initiatives emerged from the university-wide, yearlong, long-range planning process.
Undergraduate students who used a course information platform to learn about the performance of previous students in classes at their university earned slightly lower grades, according to new Stanford research.
Nadarajan Chetty, Trevor Hastie and Daniel Herschlag are now part of an organization designed to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology.
Nicole Ardoin, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education, has been awarded the Haas Center for Public Service’s Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize, which recognizes faculty who involve students in integrating academic scholarship with volunteer service.
Nine members of the Stanford faculty have been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies.
Students programmed robots to autonomously navigate an unknown cityscape and aid in a simulated rescue of animals in peril in a class that mimics the programming needed for autonomous cars or robots of the future.
President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell answered a range of questions on issues from long-range planning to housing availability during a campus community meeting Tuesday.
In a reimagining of an already popular course, students fly prototypes of drone delivery systems on quadcopters and design winged drones for long-range flights.
The historic struggle for greater access to knowledge and the debates over intellectual property rights have a legacy that should inform today’s digital era, writes Stanford education Professor John Willinsky.
Rather than having students learn and memorize established knowledge, professors Steven Block and Tim Stearns created a course to teach students how to think like scientists and pursue new answers.
Documents address a range of topics from research and educational initiatives to housing, sustainability and university operations. A 30-day comment period on the papers now begins.
Faculty leaders of two of Stanford’s long-range planning steering groups, including Juliet Brodie, discuss how the groups reviewed hundreds of ideas from across the community and share some of the major themes that emerged.
At the Faculty Senate meeting Thursday, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne looked back on his first year and ahead to Stanford’s coming years, while ASSU leaders Justice Tention-Palmer and Vicki Niu presented a report on academics and diversity.
Stanford has a long tradition of not revealing first-year roommate matches until students arrive for New Student Orientation. Undergraduate housing coordinators Devin Norder and Cesar Arevalo reveal how they make those roommate matches.
Analyzing 45 years of higher education data in the Bay Area, Dick Scott and Mike Kirst find that higher education has fallen behind the needs of an ever-changing region.
Students, faculty, staff and alumni responded to the call for ideas and proposals to inform Stanford's long-range planning process. Four area steering groups will now begin digging into the task of reviewing and contextualizing the submissions.
