Undergraduates in Stanford’s EAST (Education and Society Theme) House view pressing social issues through the lens of education as a tool for changing the culture.
Christine Griffith, associate vice provost and dean of students, is retiring after nearly 38 years at Stanford. Griffith, who originally joined Stanford as an office manager in Escondido Village, is credited with developing the university’s first Graduate Life Office.
Admit Weekend offers prospective freshmen a glimpse of life on the Farm, with academic and social activities designed to showcase the university's breadth and depth.
With more than 20 years of experience in student services, Johanna Metzgar has demonstrated a deep commitment to students by creating products that have transformed the ways students explore courses and design their academic paths.
A task force focused on the needs of graduate student parents released a report outlining recommendations in the areas of child care, health care, housing and financial support.
Stanford will welcome prospective graduate students to campus Friday for Graduate Recruitment and Diversity Day, an annual event designed to help recruit outstanding scholars who would contribute to the diversity of their academic fields and to the university’s graduate community.
Sughra Ahmed, who has spent most of her adult life building cross-faith and cross-cultural bridges between individuals and communities in the United Kingdom, joined the Stanford community as associate dean for religious life in November 2017.
A Stanford course groups undergraduate students with local first-graders to create picture books intended to help children better understand personal or social problems.
The goal of the Churchill Scholarship program is to promote scientific exchange between the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to ensure future prosperity and security.
Alumna Erika Topete is assistant director of the program, which aims to provide undergraduate and graduate students with the practical knowledge they need to make informed financial decisions on the Farm and in their lives and careers beyond graduation.
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.
Fall 2017 marked 125 years since the foundation of The Stanford Daily, an independent, student-run paper reporting on the campus and community. Working on the paper helped launch journalism careers and created a community for staffers.
At Stanford, the Office of Alcohol Policy and Education is dedicated to enhancing the health and safety of students by empowering them to make healthy choices around alcohol consumption. This year, the office is studying ways to expand programs.
Stanford recently welcomed more than two dozen new transfer students who have begun their studies on the Farm as sophomores and juniors, including 13 U.S. military veterans and 13 individuals who are the first members of their families to attend a four-year college.
A solar car named Sundae developed by Stanford students is about to race more than 1,800 miles across the Australian Outback, testing the limits of cutting-edge technologies and undergraduate ingenuity.
The New Graduate Student Orientation program is designed to help new graduate students make connections – with people, places and resources – across the entire campus.
Members of the Stanford Class of 2021, transfer students and their families came to campus for move-in day, Convocation and the start of New Student Orientation. View the slide show.
Academic advisers help first-year students explore their intellectual opportunities, find their intellectual homes and discover a sense of belonging at Stanford.
Incoming freshmen in the Leland Scholars program cap four weeks of hands-on experience in chemistry and writing classes with some hands-on experience floating their homemade boats at Terman Fountain.
Admit Weekend offers prospective freshmen a glimpse of life on the Farm, with academic and social activities designed to showcase the university's breadth and depth.
At a town hall meeting Friday about the university’s ongoing long-range planning process, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell encouraged faculty, staff and students to submit their ideas for future initiatives and for strengthening Stanford’s foundation.
