More than 4,500 frosh and transfer, graduate, and professional students begin arriving on campus this weekend to participate in events designed to help them feel at home on the Farm.
President Richard Saller, Provost Persis Drell, and incoming Provost Jenny Martinez shared the Frost Amphitheater stage on Tuesday as they welcomed faculty and staff to the new academic year.
For the members of the Stanford Birdwatching Club, campus outings offer plentiful opportunities for glimpsing rare species, and a special kind of camaraderie.
More than 2,000 staff members came out for the 17th annual Cardinal Walk last week to celebrate health and community, and remote employees organized walks of their own. Check out the highlights.
The Stanford Moonshot Club built a motorized couch and achieved a degree of internet fame. Watch the vehicular furniture zipping around campus, with special appearances by Jennifer Widom, Persis Drell, and Mehran Sahami.
Student researchers build experience and community
Eighty undergrads are spending the summer working in labs, taking samples in the field, and learning new computing techniques at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and its affiliated institutes.
Stanford students, researchers, and doctors, in partnership with AI and robotics industry leaders, recently demonstrated the playful bots for patients at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
Consortium brings students together for conversations across political divides
The Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership brings college students of different backgrounds together for meaningful conversations across political divides. “One of the things the program really emphasizes is how many issues are not black and white. How do we have discussions that just have more nuance?”
Manuscript Sciences at Stanford wants scholars of all disciplines to engage with the question, how can we automate discovery about objects that are unquantifiable?
