Every summer, Stanford’s St. Lawrence String Quartet and special guest faculty teach an intensive seminar to professional and amateur musicians on the delicate art of performing chamber music.
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.
Researchers use computer modeling to better understand the chemical reactions in Earth’s subsurface that affect water supplies, energy waste storage, climate change and more.
A Stanford historian reflects on the legacy of the Stonewall riots and how gay pride parades evolved from serious protest marches to colorful, international celebrations.
Stanford researchers have for years looked to seed grants to get innovative, risky or simply new ideas – whether it’s using prawns to combat disease or drones to map coral reefs – off the ground.
Stanford University’s 128th Commencement weekend, June 15-16, 2019, attracted tens of thousands of visitors to see diplomas awarded to thousands of graduating seniors and graduate students.
Truly grasping the importance of biodiversity means diving down into the microscopic organisms in our soils and out to human social relationships affecting our ecosystems. The more we know, the better we can address threats to species diversity.
The EPA replaced the Obama-era Clean Power Plan with one that focuses on efficiency improvements at generating stations. Stanford experts on law, energy policy and economics discuss the move and its potential impacts.
There’s never a moment’s rest for the staff of Approaching Stanford, the university’s official process for welcoming new students to the campus community. Even before school ends, they are busy helping new students orient to Stanford.
The new normal for Western wildfires is abnormal, with increasingly bigger and more destructive blazes. Understanding the risks can help communities avert disaster.
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a number of people around the country in an alleged scheme in which payments were made to try to win the admission of prospective students to a number of U.S. colleges and universities. Stanford’s former head sailing coach pleaded guilty to a charge in this case.
When Stanford’s undergraduate students go home for the summer, some 20,000 people bring the campus back to life at camps and conferences that are aligned with the university’s teaching, learning and research mission.
New research examined how Republicans and Democrats express themselves online in an attempt to understand how polarization of beliefs occurs on social media.
Stanford has played a leading role in compiling Fermi’s gamma-ray bursts catalogs ever since the space observatory launched nearly 11 years ago. More than 120 authors contributed to the effort.
