At a special meeting on July 30, the Faculty Senate approved new grading policies for the 2020-21 academic year, including one stating that all university courses offered for a letter grade must also give students the option of taking the course for a credit/no credit grade.
Stanford MBA candidate Joshua Yang is part of an international team of graduate students and postdocs who took the top prize for designing a platform that could lead to new cancer treatments.
Provost Persis Drell is allocating funds to enable all doctoral students in good academic standing to receive 12 months of funding for up to five years.
Stanford Medicine student Joshua Swee is a co-founder of the nonprofit DonatePPE, a nationwide effort to connect charitable donations to hospitals and medical workers battling COVID-19.
With help from his classmates at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Judd Olanoff, MBA ’20, has launched a journalism platform that’s reimagining the news industry for a young, modern audience.
During spring quarter, when students were learning from home, lecturers in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric created supportive virtual writing classrooms.
The Steering Committee of the Faculty Senate approved a one-year delay on a new academic policy – which had been scheduled to go into effect in the 2020-21 academic year – setting a 100-unit cap on undergraduate majors.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service has identified and connected students to remote learning, service and career opportunities.
Students from 29 undergraduate departmental and interdisciplinary honors programs were recently selected for the 2020 Firestone and Golden medals and the Kennedy Honors Thesis prizes.
