Rathbun Lecture featuring David Henry Hwang, 79 Stanford 2024-04-25 | Stanford alumnus, David Henry Hwang, '79, the 2024 Rathbun Visiting Fellow, offered the Rathbun Lecture on a meaningful life in historic Memorial Church on April 12. He is best known as the author of "M. Butterfly", which won the 1988 Tony, Drama Desk, John Gassner, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, and was a Finalist for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize. The program was moderated by the Rev. Dr. T.L. Steinwert, Dean for Religious and Spiritual Life.Rathbun Visiting Fellows are accomplished people living their lives in a meaningful manner and making a difference in a particular way. Consideration is especially given to people with interdisciplinary backgrounds leading a ‘whole life with meaningful purpose’ as the intention is to invite speakers who will appeal to students and faculty from different disciplines across the university.
making@stanford Stanford 2024-04-24 | The Farm is home to an impressive array of spaces where students and othercommunity members can try their hand at various forms of creation. From embroidering tosilversmithing to sculpting – and much more – Stanford provides space to explore.For more information visit: http://making.stanford.edu/MB01WBJ0RT6I1RG
High schoolers visit campus, glimpse future possibilities Stanford 2024-04-16 | High school students visited the university as part of Stanford's "Introduction to Bioengineering," a dual-credit course program that provides talented students in low-income communities with access to advanced material while encouraging them to apply to selective colleges.MB01ZK1T8QINOPF
Learning the history of evolution and primatology Stanford 2024-04-11 | An exhibition and undergraduate course at Stanford examines the peculiar scrutiny people have placed on their primate relatives to better understand the human condition.For more 🗞️: https://news.stanford.edu/report/2024/04/11/learning-history-evolution-primatology/Note: This video includes images of posters that contain material that is offensive and unacceptable. Inclusion of this content in the video is meant to provide context for an academic course and is not an endorsement of their language, images, or ideology. MB011DMXU0DOPN5
Discover Stanford for You: The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Education Stanford 2024-03-21 | Join speakers from the Graduate School of Education to explore the exciting possibilities with AI in the changing landscape of education.
Discover Stanford for You: Exploring the Impact of Guns in Homes and Society Stanford 2024-03-21 | Gun ownership rates in the United States have reached unprecedented levels. Led by Stanford professors David Studdert and Maya Rossin-Slater, explore the effects of introducing firearms into homes and the long-term consequences of school gun violence on students' mental health, education, and future economic prospects.
Discover Stanford for You: Preventing Housing Displacement – One Family at a Time Stanford 2024-03-21 | Learn how Stanford’s Community Law Clinic shapes future lawyers while providing critical legal services to underserved communities in the Bay Area.
Discover Stanford for You: Creating Conversations Across Generations Stanford 2024-03-21 | Learn about Stanford Professor Yoshiko Matsumoto’s research on creating inclusive communities among people of different generations and cognitive conditions. Faculty from Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences will also reflect on how the fundamentals of education – pursuit of knowledge and truth – enrich our lives and are vital to preparing global citizens.
Robert Sapolsky: The Biology and Psychology of Depression Stanford 2024-03-14 | Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky gives an overview of both the biology and psychology of depression, with the key points being that depression is as a real of a disease as is diabetes, and that you can't begin to understand depression without seeing how the biological and psychological are one and the same. This is a 2023 update of his 2009 lecture, incorporating scientific advances since that time.
Highlights from Family Weekend 2024 Stanford 2024-02-26 | More than 5,000 family members visited campus in late February to reunite with their students and learn about life on the Farm.
The movers and shakers of Stanford’s earthquake center Stanford 2024-01-19 | From a single footfall to catastrophic tremors, waves of impact are all around us. The researchers at the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center study the world’s vibrations – big and small.MB01FIPYEAPC5Q1
Spend a day in the life of three undergrad researchers Stanford 2024-01-18 | Follow Sarafan ChEM-H Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program participants Charlotte Bravo (Chemistry ’25), Andrew Yang (Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering, ‘25), and Martin Hoberman (Biology ’25), as they support the development of novel drugs for life-threatening fungal diseases.MB01HKH1A8XD1IP
Two tricks for healthier eating Stanford 2024-01-12 | There’s more expert consensus than you’d think when it comes to nutrition. If you’re confused by seemingly contradictory advice, Christopher Gardner suggests:1. Try asking the questions “With what?” and “Instead of what?”2. Take inspiration from established cuisines Garnder is the Rehnborg Farquhar Professor of Medicine and director of nutrition studies at the Stanford Prevention Research Center.
Three design-inspired tools for making big life decisions Stanford 2024-01-11 | Bill Burnett co-teaches a legendary course at Stanford that applies design thinking to the “wicked” problem of planning life and career. When approaching big decisions, he recommends using these “power tools” of his trade:1. Embrace curiosity — it’s the mindset that gives you the energy to overcome fear and procrastination2. Prototype your way forward through conversations and experiences3. Reframe as a way to get unstuck from seemingly unsolvable problemsBurnett is an adjunct professor of mechanical engineering and executive director of Stanford’s Life Design Lab.
In goal pursuit, embrace friendly competition Stanford 2024-01-11 | Szu-chi Huang’s research has shown that while positive feedback motivates you to start a goal, negative feedback is more likely to motivate you to finish it. As such, she says it’s wise to leverage friendly support as you start to pursue a goal and then lean into friendly competition later on. Doing so can help you push through to the end. Huang is a professor of marketing in the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
How to maintain momentum in behavior change Stanford 2024-01-11 | Marily Oppezzo is a registered dietitian and a behavioral and learning scientist, and she frequently provides advice to faculty and staff through the university’s wellness programs. She emphasizes the importance of doing something to maintain momentum, even if the action falls short of a loftier objective. In addition to making a “good enough” version of your goals, she suggests:1. Give missed goals a head nod. (Not going to make that run happen? Just put on your tennis shoes.) Simply by giving your goal a shout out, you can keep yourself in rhythm. 2. Try the “one good thing a day” approach. Having the flexibility to spread your change goal to different areas of health and well-being makes it more likely you’ll succeed as we move past the new year and initial motivation fades. Oppezzo is an instructor at the Stanford Prevention Research Center.
Behavioral scientist BJ Fogg on building lasting habits Stanford 2024-01-11 | To build habits that will take hold and endure, BJ Fogg says, it’s critical to be flexible in your quest for change and to lean into positive emotions. Specifically: 1. Help yourself do what you already want to do 2. Help yourself feel successful 3. Invest time and energy (and money) to design your environment in a way that makes “good” behaviors easy and “bad” behaviors hard or impossible Fogg is an adjunct professor in the Stanford School of Medicine, founder of the Behavior Design Lab, and the author of “Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything."
Meet Our Faculty: Hawa Racine Thiam Stanford 2024-01-06 | The Sarafan ChEM-H Institute scholar is building a multidisciplinary lab to explore the reengineering of immune cells. Before coming to Stanford, she says, “I was thinking in terms of understanding. Now I feel that I can start thinking in terms of creating.”MB01EFCQPHW5XLL
Year in review: Stanford 2023 Stanford 2023-12-20 | Visual highlights from 12 months on the Farm.MB01PWNVEPEHBLO
Making gingerbread nerds with Stanford chef Raul Lacara and son Russell, 24 Stanford 2023-12-18 | Get the recipe ➡️ stanford.io/4apFjGe
Silent Night 🎶 Stanford 2023-12-18 | A musical moment with math and computer science major Jadon Geathers, ’24.
Bio-Cultural Diversity and Community-Based Conservation in Oaxaca Stanford 2023-11-01 | A Bing Overseas Studies Program summer global seminar highlights gifts of global significance forged from the ancient interplay between indigenous communities and local ecosystems. Learn more about BOSP’s global seminars: https://bosp.stanford.edu/explore/global-seminars/homeMB01ROLPRFSD4THMB01PG961U7M6SD
Sophisticated human biomechanics from smartphone video Stanford 2023-10-19 | With synchronous video from a pair of smartphones, engineers at Stanford have created an open-source motion-capture app that democratizes the once-exclusive science of human movement – at 1% of the cost.MB01OHI2XAHWTHM
Navajo artists share expertise with students Stanford 2023-10-16 | Navajo artists Zefren Anderson and Robert Blackhat Jr. spent two and a half days working alongside Stanford Arts Intensive students this summer as they finished their silver jewelry projects.MB01C1UVGSIAENT
Meet TidyBot—a robot that provides personalized room cleanup Stanford 2023-10-03 | The one-armed “TidyBot” needs only a few starter examples to figure out how you like your stuff put away. TidyBot uses a large language model (a type of AI similar to the one used in ChatGPT) to rake in information from the internet and learn to identify broad categories of objects like clothes, food, and toys. This means you can give TidyBot just a few examples of where certain belongings go and it will understand to clean up similar items the same way — even if it’s never seen those items before. So far, in real-world tests, the robot can properly put away 85% of objects.MB01BYU7EIWDBSI
Stanfords 133rd Opening Convocation Ceremony Stanford 2023-09-21 | New undergraduate first-year and transfer students and their families were welcomed to Stanford at the 133rd Opening Convocation Ceremony on September 19th, 2023, the formal inauguration of the academic year. Together with their new classmates, students participate in celebrating the beginning of Stanford's New Student Orientation at this time-honored tradition, held in Frost Amphitheater.
Day in the life: Grace Soontornviwath, 25 Stanford 2023-09-21 | A Stanford junior takes us behind the scenes with the Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program. Follow along as she builds a benchtop heart model and enjoys campus with friends.MB01KALLRDZ5KWK
Highlights from Stanfords 133rd Convocation ceremony Stanford 2023-09-21 | Thousands of new students, family members and guests gathered at Frost Amphitheater on Sept. 19 for Stanford’s 133rd Convocation ceremony, a time-honored tradition that serves as the formal inauguration of the academic year.MB01OCSMI747SQB
Class of 2027 Move-in Day Stanford 2023-09-19 | Stanford welcomed more than 4,500 frosh and transfer, graduate, and professional students to campus at the start of the 2023-24 academic year. MB01EOW18OCXQAE
We are Stanford: Welcome to Fall 23 Stanford 2023-09-14 | Stanford celebrates the start of a new academic year, honoring our staff and faculty, and fostering a welcoming and inclusive community on campus. MB01A6HGLRZFWQAMB01QLLF4IPPCSE
Noah Diffenbaugh answers the internets questions on climate change Stanford 2023-09-13 | Is climate change driving natural disasters? Is it a social issue? Is it reversible? Answers from Noah Diffenbaugh, the Kara J Foundation Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow in Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability.MB01YM2BIQGPZP2
Seeing the oceans in a new light Stanford 2023-09-12 | Stanford scientists have developed a nanophotonic technology to help coastal communities around the world track changes to marine biodiversity and assess ocean health in real time. MB01IQDPMRWWGC4MB01MI1JMVSTB5T
Stanford University | Pursue your Passions Stanford 2023-08-30 | At Stanford, pursuing your passions unlocks your potential . This Stanford University broadcast commercial was produced for the 2023-2024 athletic season. Learn more at Stanford.edu.
Stanford students design and build a complex silver pendant Stanford 2023-07-10 | Stanford's Silver Pendant Project is a unique MAKING@STANFORD class in which 100 students from a wide array of disciplines and experience make a complex and meaningful silver pendant. Beginning with a basic introduction to design and CAD, students use a computer aided design tool to create a 3D model of their pendant design. Next, using machines and processes at the Product Realization Lab, students build a 3D printed version of their pendant. Finally, a lost-wax in-vestment casting process will create the finished silver pendant.MB01WM2W0CMEFLW
How to tackle the worlds greatest sustainability challenges Stanford 2023-06-28 | A spring-quarter course taught by Stanford professors William Barnett and Chris Field asked students to consider solutions to global predicaments. “This new generation will be known as the greatest generation ... they will be building sustainability into everything they do.”MB01O9BMTMBRG9U
Meet Ziyad Gawish, ’23 Stanford 2023-06-25 | Ziyad Gawish, a first-generation student who grew up in Long Island, New York, graduated in June with a B.S. in computer science. He will return to campus in the fall to complete a master's degree in electrical engineering.MB01GKMCQMBKQ5V
The Knight-Hennessy Scholar Experience Stanford 2023-06-22 | Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University cultivates a growing global community of visionary, courageous, and collaborative leaders committed to creating positive change in the world. The experience takes graduate school to a new level, giving scholars diverse perspectives and ways of thinking as well as a home and community where they will always belong.
2023 Stanford Baccalaureate Ceremony Stanford 2023-06-21 | "The greatest source of awe is in you", Rabbi Angela Buchdahl tells graduating Stanford students.Baccalaureate speakers Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl and Lusciana Gomez, ’23, reflected on the importance of cultivating amazement and appreciation in everyday life.
2023 Commencement Highlights: John McEnroe Stanford 2023-06-19 | During Sunday’s Commencement ceremony honoring the Class of 2023, the tennis legend and former Stanford student-athlete shared lessons he learned from his life, career, and time on the Farm.MB01IF2O1CPITVW
Stanford’s 2023 Commencement Wacky Walk Stanford 2023-06-18 | Stanford University’s nontraditional procession of graduates into Stanford Stadium.MB01MBDLCX88OJM
Stanford 2023 Commencement Ceremony Stanford 2023-06-18 | Stanford's 132nd Commencement Ceremony celebrating the Class of 2023 took place at Stanford Stadium on June 18, 2023.
2023 Stanford Commencement speech by John McEnroe Stanford 2023-06-18 | Tennis legend John McEnroe delivered the Commencement address at Stanford's 132nd Commencement Ceremony on June 18, 2023.
2023 Stanford Baccalaureate Highlights Stanford 2023-06-17 | Stanford's Baccalaureate ceremony, a multifaith celebration for graduating students and their families and friends, included a student reflection delivered by Lusciana Gomez, '23, and a keynote address by Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl.
Meet Tina Wong, 23 Stanford 2023-06-16 | Tina Wong, a veteran and transfer student from San Jose, California, will graduate in June with a degree in economics. After moving to Chicago, she plans to pursue a career supporting clean energy initiatives in the nonprofit or public sector. She is a winner of the Stanford Alumni Association’s J.E. Wallace Sterling Award, which recognizes a graduating senior whose leadership and volunteer activities have made a significant impact on the campus community.MB01LKG3VHPCUER
Meet Nadia Hemmat, ’23 Stanford 2023-06-13 | Nadia Hemmat, a transfer student from San Mateo, California, graduates in June with a bachelor’s degree in human biology. Motivated by her experience as a female athlete and her family’s generational transformation, she will pursue a career in global women’s health.MB01U4BJ1CWLKNH
Meet Sean and Caitlin Casey, 23 Stanford 2023-06-06 | The twins grew up outside of South Bend, Indiana, older siblings to another twin pair and children of legal scholars. They will graduate in June with bachelor’s degrees in economics and public policy, respectively, and are pursuing coterminal master’s degrees in management science and engineering.MB01UPRFWG1CMGL
Meet Ecy King, 23 Stanford 2023-05-23 | Ecy King, a senior class president and Major Grant recipient, graduates in June with a bachelor’s degree in symbolic systems. Her educational comic book "Bit by Bit," designed to make computer science approachable and fun, will be printed by Stanford University Press for use by future students.MB016G7C29JNEDV
52nd Annual Stanford Powwow Stanford 2023-05-17 | Stanford Powwow is a celebration of life, traditions, ancestors and Indigeneity. The theme for this year is Intertribal Unity - a reflection of the importance of unity within our communities and celebration of this connection.
Meet the 43rd Stanford Tree Stanford 2023-05-16 | Grayson Armour grew up on his family’s dairy farm in Carlinville, Illinois, where nightly views of the Milky Way inspired a fascination with distant horizons. After graduating from Stanford with a BS in aerospace computational engineering and an MS in aeronautics and astronautics, he plans to attend the Navy’s Officer Candidate School and then to pursue a career in human spaceflight. #Stanford2023MB010IC73G6AMMB
