Teaching and Students

Actor rehearsing balcony scene standing in a tree/Daniel Chia

Stanford Shakespeare Company's Romeo and Juliet brings the feuding families of Verona together for a eulogy

The all-student theater company tweaks the classic tale by staging a ceremony of remembrance for the dead lovers.


Faculty Senate at May 18 meeting / Photo: L.A. Cicero

Senate approves Ways of Thinking, Ways of Doing breadth requirement

Starting in 2013, Stanford's baccalaureate breadth requirements will be based on a model that promotes the acquisition and development of "essential capacities."


Children with raised hands in classroom.

Q&A: Professor David Plank on the budget and California's K-12 education system

Professor David Plank offers insight into a new report evaluating California's K-12 education system, with reasons to be hopeful that some reform may be on the way.


Doctoral candidate Katie Hume talks with her peers about how best to present her disssertation work to tech industry leaders. /Photo: L.A. Cicero

Stanford humanities PhD students pitch their talents to high-tech executives

At Stanford's second annual BiblioTech conference, business-style elevator pitches will showcase the versatile assets of 21st century humanities graduate students.


Sunshine Roman-New Moon performing a shawl dance./ Photo: L.A. Cicero

It takes a tribe - of dedicated undergrads - to 'raise' the Stanford Powwow

The 41st Annual Stanford Powwow, which will be held May 11-13 in the Eucalyptus Grove, is the largest student-run powwow in the nation. 


Senate considers new breadth requirements

The Faculty Senate will discuss proposals to move the university to a non-disciplinary model of breadth requirements, known as Ways of Thinking, Ways of Doing, beginning with the Class of 2017.


Angela McCray, right, is the law student who founded the program. /Photo: L.A. Cicero

Stanford students share the entrepreneurial spirit with women just out of prison

Law and business school students in a new pro bono program teach formerly incarcerated women the basics of starting and operating a successful business.


Victoire Lejzerzon, Titus Seah, Tina Seelig, and Ramprasath Palanisamy. Photo: L.A. Cicero

Where does that creative spark come from? Stanford's Tina Seelig has some ideas

The d.school's Tina Seelig explains how to get your creative juices flowing – at work, at home and in your community.  Video


Occupy art from 2011 event/ Photo: L.A. Cicero

A Stanford event: How the arts contribute to the Occupy movement

Students and members of the community explore how artists have occupied spaces in order to transform them, and consider the role of the arts in economic, immigrant, political and social justice struggles.


Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan with students/ Photo: L.A. Cicero

Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan brings his teaching philosophy to Stanford

The Department of Music expands its non-Western musical offerings by hosting one of Northern India's greatest living musicians during the spring quarter.  Video


Stanford scholar Ozgen Felek shows an example of an illuminated manuscript in a class / Photo: L.A. Cicero

Stanford's Özgen Felek investigates the power of dreams in Sufism

Through a study of dreams, Özgen Felek charts the ascendance of the 16th-century Ottoman ruler Sultan Murad III from humble disciple to spiritual and political leader.


Firyal Abdulaziz of Oman, Ali Al-Murtadha of Yemen and Rawan Da'as of Jordan

Stanford summit draws Arab Spring activists, youth leaders from the Middle East and US

Youth leaders from across the Middle East, North Africa and the United States convene at Stanford to exchange ideas, get inspired and network, post-Arab Spring.


Student Patrick Ward talking to Entrepreneurship Concierge / Photo: L.A. Cicero

At your service: Stanford's entrepreneurship concierge

The Stanford Entrepreneurship Network now offers a concierge to help connect students with business resources across campus and in the larger Silicon Valley community.


Graduate student Diego Rom?n walks past the White House during Stanford's DC Boot Camp./ Photo: Rob Jordan

D.C. Boot Camp: Stanford grad students do basic training in the nation's capital

Turning environmental research into action requires knowledge of how Washington works. Twenty-four Stanford PhD students pounded the pavement to learn more.


TJ the robotic puppet / Photo: Steve Fyffe

Innovation: Stanford student's robotic invention moves toward a business

Engineering student Jeff Kessler got his robotic chops in Stanford classes, and found financial support for his robotic puppet from strangers online.  Video