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Stanford Energy —

Website makes “Understand Energy” course available to the public

A new website makes content from Stanford’s long-running “Understand Energy” course available to the public.

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Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences —

A new minor explores the rich terrain of the human experience

Classes pair the field of medicine with art, literature, film, history, policy, and the social sciences.

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The dance of bio-cultural diversity

Students in Bing Overseas Studies Program’s global seminar in Oaxaca learned first hand how the area’s Indigenous communities work in concert with local ecosystems. “In your head, you think of a national park that’s far away from everybody. But a lot of times, biodiversity is in people’s neighborhoods.”

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Sophomore College helps undergrads bring their academic career into focus

Nearly 200 students participated in the program, which offers small, intensive, three-week classes before the beginning of the academic year.

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Stanford Accelerator for Learning —

Sandbox for change

A two-quarter course challenges students across disciplines to develop new ways for technology to support learning.

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Navajo silversmiths share generations of design expertise

Visiting artists Zefren Anderson and Robert Blackhat Jr. spent two and a half days with Stanford Arts Intensive students this summer, demonstrating cutting-edge technology and techniques honed over thousands of years.

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Stanford Graduate School of Business —

GSB program offers business classes for undergraduates

A new program allows juniors and seniors to take GSB courses designed for them, with the goal of encouraging students from a range of majors to think about markets, decision-making, and leadership.

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Interns make an impact at Jasper Ridge

Undergraduate fellows gained hands-on experience in botany and ecology at Stanford’s biological preserve this summer, making a trove of plant data available to the public and implementing and testing a wildfire management plan that reduces risk for the local community.

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Three Books joins the COLLEGE curriculum

Formerly a summer reading program, Three Books will now pair readings or other media with each COLLEGE course.

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Stanford Graduate School of Business —

Confirmation bias and other decision-making pitfalls

For nearly two decades, organizational behavior Professor Francis Flynn has introduced incoming GSB students to key concepts of applied social psychology. “When the stakes are high, blindly relying on our intuition might not be enough.”

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