Heidi Marisol López, finance assistant and graduate fellowships coordinator at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, recently won an Amy J. Blue Award.
Laura Dominguez Chan, associate dean of career education and director of career communities at Stanford Career Education, recently won an Amy J. Blue Award, which honors staff who are exceptionally dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work.
To encourage community and intellectual engagement on campus, the White Plaza region will be redesigned as a vibrant town center. The team leading the project is currently gathering ideas from the campus community, including at a town hall event on Wednesday.
Members of the campus community gathered to rename a residence hall in memory of pioneering astronaut Sally Ride, with her mother, Joyce Ride, in attendance. Also at the event, Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne acknowledged and honored the contributions of Native Americans to Stanford University.
The Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program has been collecting the remembrances of everyone from presidents and Nobel laureates to faculty and student leaders to preserve the university’s history and its contributions for generations to come.
At Stanford Redwood City yesterday, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Provost Persis Drell, Redwood City Mayor Ian Bain and Redwood City Vice Mayor Diane Howard cut a ceremonial red ribbon to celebrate the opening of the new state-of-the-art campus.
