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.
The Changing Human Experience Design Team is one of eight faculty teams developing research initiatives under Our Vision, Stanford’s long-range planning process.
The work, scheduled to begin next week and continue through June, will replace transmission pipelines along sections of Page Mill Road and Junipero Serra Boulevard.
President Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Drell emphasize that the conduct reported in the case is absolutely contrary to Stanford’s values, and to the norms the university has lived by for decades. “Today’s news is a shock exactly because it so clearly violates our institutional expectations for ethical conduct.”
Gift from the Capital Group Foundation includes funding for curatorial fellow position to oversee vast collection of works by Ansel Adams, Gordon Parks, Edward Weston and others.
Among the topics discussed was what Provost Persis Drell called a “historic moment,” the opening of Stanford Redwood City with a ribbon-cutting on March 21.
