Bill and Melinda Gates 2014 Stanford Commencement Address Stanford 2024-10-21 | Bill and Melinda Gates 2014 Stanford Commencement Address
Meet Nicole Liu, a dancer from Atlanta. 🩰 Stanford 2024-10-18 | “It’ll be nice to step back from the competition world and enjoy a whole performance with my fellow dancers.” #Stanford2028🎥: Harry Gregory
Meet Selorm Magnus, a Leland Scholars Program student from Accra, Ghana. 🇬🇭 Stanford 2024-10-18 | “I was anxious if I’d find community here — people who understand me, understand my life experiences, understand where I came from — and I found that here at Stanford.”#Stanford2028 🎥: Harry Gregory
Meet Sofia Islas, an international student from Asunción, Paraguay. 🇵🇾 Stanford 2024-10-18 | Her message to family back home: “I want to be thankful for all the opportunities, for all the support, for all the love I get no matter the distance. I miss you a lot and I’m going to take advantage of this opportunity to the fullest.” #Stanford2028 🎥: Harry Gregory
Meet Tanner Crane, an outdoor enthusiast from Moab, Utah. ⛰️ Stanford 2024-10-18 | “It’s a cool opportunity to be around people that are going to the Olympics, that play D1 sports, to get to interact and play with them on the sidelines.” #Stanford2028🎥: Harry Gregory
Meet Gabby Rosado, a proud FLI (first-generation and/or low-income) student from Las Vegas. 🎰 Stanford 2024-10-18 | “You can do it here, that’s for sure. You can do it no matter what.”#Stanford2028🎥: Harry Gregory
Meet Rishi Jeyamurthy, a musician and dancer from Atlanta. 🎶 Stanford 2024-10-18 | “Everyone has an interest in art, even if they aren’t majoring in it. It’s exciting to see how everyone brings a cross-curricular passion.”#Stanford2028🎥: Harry Gregory
Stanford wildfire resilience and the BurnBot Stanford 2024-10-11 | Stanford researchers and a local startup piloted its BurnBot machine at the Stanford Dish this year to experiment with creating fire fuel breaks. In response to increasingly intense and frequent wildfires, the university uses its diverse lands as a living lab for research on wildfire resilience.MB0187B98IPCDBQ
Stanford scientists tap into the fungal network Stanford 2024-10-09 | Stanford scientist Kabir Peay and his team want to leverage the relationship between plants and the beneficial fungi that colonize their roots to help ecosystems weather climate change.For more: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/10/tapping-into-the-fungal-networkMB01RECATZQB0J5
Highlights from President Jon Levins inauguration Stanford 2024-09-30 | The Stanford community and distinguished guests gathered on Sept. 27, 2024 to celebrate the inauguration of the university's 13th president, Jonathan D. Levin, '94. “The intellectual expansiveness of the Stanford campus has always been intertwined with the physical expansiveness of the American West,” Levin said in his address.“Let us navigate the challenges ahead by staying true to our distinctive purpose of discovery and learning, and our commitment to the university’s freedoms. Let us appreciate what an extraordinary institution this is, and its potential to contribute. And as we look forward, let us aspire to be open — to each other, to new ideas, to the world.”🗞: stanford.io/4dovAAeMB0137AR1L61DOM
President Jonathan Levins inaugural address Stanford 2024-09-28 | President Jonathan Levin delivers his inaugural address at Frost Amphitheater on September 27, 2024.
Tomorrow is the inauguration of Stanford’s 13th president. Congrats, President Levin! Stanford 2024-09-26 | ...
A conversation with Stanfords new president Stanford 2024-09-25 | Stanford seniors Diego Kagurabadza and Avery Watkins sat down to talk with the university's new president, Jonathan Levin, '94, as they returned to campus for the 2024-25 academic year.MB01KXXQQR3M7QI
Highlights from Stanfords 134th Convocation Ceremony Stanford 2024-09-18 | Thousands of new students, family members and guests gathered at Frost Amphitheater on Sept. 17 for Stanford’s 134th Convocation ceremony, a time-honored tradition that serves as the formal inauguration of the academic year.MB01KYUJYTLXF1H
Class of 2028 Move-in Day Stanford 2024-09-17 | Stanford welcomed more than 4,500 frosh and transfer, graduate, and professional students to campus at the start of the 2024-25 academic year.MB01TEG9OOHDYOI
Congratulations #Stanford2028! 🌲🎉❤️ Stanford 2024-09-17 | Welcome to the Farm from:- Vanessa Onuoha, ’25 (English)- Zaydan Kabir Amanullah, ’27 (Bangla)- Fernanda León, ’27 (Spanish)- Rushank Goyal, ’27 (Hindi)- Irawadee Thawornbut, ’25 (Thai)- Ahmad Zafar, ’27 (Urdu)- Luis Cortes, ’27 (Portuguese)- Khuyen Nguyen, ’25 (Vietnamese)- Marco Paes, ’27 (Guarani)- Lilian Atawoi, ’27 (Swahili)- Jeewoo Choi, ’24 (Korean)- Sonya Epifanyseva, ’25 (Russian)- Obinna Ekeagwu, ’25 (French)- M Seng Maran, ’25 (Burmese)- Ora Gratia Rutayisire, ’27 (Kinyarwanda)- Ahmet Efe Zaladin, ’27 (Turkish)
A day in the life of Stanfords Global Engineering Internship with Sejoon Chang, 25 #shorts Stanford 2024-09-13 | Watch the full takeover: stanford.io/3Ttm8nT
Becca Taylor: Speed Puzzler Stanford 2024-09-13 | Piece by piece: How Stanford’s Becca Taylor fits into the world of competitive puzzling. Taylor’s puzzling prowess has helped her redefine her self-identity and introduced her to a whole new community – one puzzle piece at a time.MB01L8T8WJ3CZFD
We are Stanford: Welcome to Fall ’24 Stanford 2024-09-05 | Stanford celebrates the start of a new academic year, honoring our staff and faculty, and fostering a welcoming and inclusive community on campus.
Stanford brings nanoscience to teachers Stanford 2024-08-27 | The professional development program hosted by nano@stanford helps middle school teachers bring a cutting-edge field to students at a critical age for learning to see themselves as scientists. Teachers hailed from the Bay Area and Southern California – one had even come all the way from Arkansas – for the professional development program. NanoSIMST, run by nano@stanford, is designed to connect middle school teachers with activities, skills, and knowledge about science at the scale of molecules and atoms so they can incorporate it into their curriculum.:rolled_up_newspaper:: MB012RMFX6TZHMC
Finding hope in a cynical world Stanford 2024-08-26 | A new book by Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki urges us to trade cynicism for hopeful skepticism. Zaki, a professor of psychology in the School of Humanities & Sciences and director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory, shares how he escaped the cynicism trap and offers simple but effective practices to avoid our cynical tendencies from taking over. MB01HJHJGYTG5NO
Day in the life: postdoctoral scholar Jennifer Maier Stanford 2024-08-08 | Experience a day in the life of Stanford postdoctoral scholar Jennifer Maier as she pushes the boundaries of sports science with the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance.While you may be watching the Olympics for its inspiring feats and heart-pounding finishes, Jennifer is watching them through a different lens, especially when it comes to volleyball. Jennifer, who holds a PhD from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, came to Stanford to work with Professors Ellen Kuhl and Scott Delp as part of the Alliance’s Digital Athlete project. Her work focuses on advancing personalized human performance modeling, particularly when hitting a volleyball. By innovating new tools in musculoskeletal modeling and simulation, Jennifer is unraveling the intricate anatomy and mechanics underlying volleyball hitting. Her research aims to help volleyball players—and athletes in general—optimize their performance while minimizing the risk of injury.A seasoned volleyball athlete herself, Jennifer has been playing for over 20 years. Her passion for the sport fuels her dedication to helping others enhance their game and protect their bodies from the wear and tear of high-performance athletics.Learn more about Jennifer Maier: https://profiles.stanford.edu/jennifer-maierLearn more about the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance: https://humanperformance.stanford.edu/
Alma Cooper: Army officer, data scientist, and Miss USA Stanford 2024-07-30 | After graduating with honors from the United States Military Academy, Alma Cooper is pursuing a master’s degree in statistics (data science track) at Stanford while building her leadership skills as a Knight-Hennessy scholar. While at West Point, Alma ensured accountability for 4,400 cadets in emergency and crisis scenarios while beginning her research on diet and food insecurity, which continues today at Stanford. She has also challenged traditional notions of what it means to be a scholar, a soldier and a pageant winner. On August 4, 2024, Alma was named Miss USA, a role in which she hopes to exemplify service, leadership, and achievement – without limitations. MB01TDTVLEISJGR
Stanford Baccalaureate 2024 Stanford 2024-07-23 | Stanford's Baccalaureate ceremony, a multifaith celebration for graduating students and their families and friends, included a student reflection delivered by Hannah Oo, ‘24, and a keynote address by Varun Soni, dean of religious and spiritual life at the University of Southern California.
Stanford class examines the ethics of technology through science fiction Stanford 2024-07-12 | In a course taught by Stanford professor Ban Wang, COLLEGE 113: Utopia, Dystopia, and Technology in Science Fiction, students considered some of those potential changes by using science fiction as a way to imagine what could unfold and their own responsibility and agency in that future. Each week, students read novels, essays, and films – to examine the consequences of science and technology and the ways they can upending human society, values, and everyday experiences.
The Knight-Hennessy scholar journey Stanford 2024-07-01 | Knight-Hennessy Scholars is a multidisciplinary, multicultural graduate fellowship program spanning all seven schools at Stanford. On their journey through graduate school, scholars are constantly exposed to new people, ideas, and ways of thinking, helping prepare them to be visionary, courageous, and collaborative leaders who address complex challenges facing the world.
Stanfords 133rd Commencement ceremony Stanford 2024-06-17 | Philanthropist Melinda French Gates shared personal stories and urged graduates to approach life’s transitions with “radical openheartedness” and a strong sense of community during her keynote speech at Stanford’s 133rd Commencement on June 16, 2024.
2024 Stanford Commencement speech by Melinda French Gates Stanford 2024-06-17 | Melinda French Gates, a philanthropist, businesswoman, and global advocate for women and girls, delivered the Commencement address at Stanford's 133rd Commencement Ceremony on June 16, 2024.
2024 Commencement Highlights: Melinda French Gates Stanford 2024-06-17 | Philanthropist Melinda French Gates urged graduates to embrace life’s transitions during her keynote speech at Stanford’s 133rd Commencement.MB01NDB8NGL8XZG
Stanford’s 2024 Commencement Wacky Walk Stanford 2024-06-17 | Stanford University’s nontraditional procession of graduates into Stanford Stadium.MB01CHA4YXSQPUN
2024 Baccalaureate celebration Stanford 2024-06-16 | Stanford's Baccalaureate ceremony, a multifaith celebration for graduating students and their families and friends, included a student reflection delivered by Hannah Oo, ‘24, and a keynote address by Varun Soni, dean of religious and spiritual life at the University of Southern California.MB01NUBKGXMPF09
Responsive Structures: Uni-no-Ki Stanford 2024-06-11 | The seminar, taught every other year, uses structural design to generate innovative spaces and forms. This year, students built fanlike modules out of slender sticks up to 15 feet long. They combined about 60 of these fans into larger structural units. “Uni-no-Ki, or Tree Urchin in English, is a convergence of nature and innovation; it is an ode to the symbiotic relationship between human creativity and the environment.” Images courtesy of Adam Rouse and Joshua Rocamora.MB01VH79P3UOMGY
Meet Sylvia Colt-Lacayo, 24 Stanford 2024-06-11 | Sylvia Colt-Lacayo, ’24, graduates in June with a degree in film and media studies. She is moving to Los Angeles to work for United Talent Agency, and hopes to become an agent and advocate for disability representation in media.MB01MKT6A1LFTYL
Meet Ahmad Koya, 24 Stanford 2024-06-06 | Ahmad Koya, ’24, grew up in Chicago and his family’s home country of Nigeria. After earning his degree in environmental engineering in June, he will spend the summer studying in Jordan and working in Singapore before completing his coterminal degree in the same field. He aims to help improve water systems around the world.
Catching up with the Stanford Solar Car Project Stanford 2024-06-03 | The Stanford Solar Car Project is a non-profit, student-run organization that was founded in 1989 and is open to students in any field. It’s a multidisciplinary engineering effort from a team that often begins without any engineering experience. On a two-year cycle, the team make a race car from the ground up, learning and applying mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering, while also figuring out how to plan and strategize for races.MB01AXUQRT710PJ
Meet Benjamin Zaidel, 24 Stanford 2024-05-23 | Benjamin Zaidel, ’24, grew up in Los Angeles influenced by two different cultures. He graduates in June with a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering and will return to Stanford next year to pursue a coterminal degree in management science and engineering.MB01FRGP0LRHCAR
Meet Yannie Tan, ’24 Stanford 2024-05-21 | Yannie Tan, '24, was a multilingual piano prodigy as a child. She graduates in June with a self-designed major in computer visualization and a minor in music, and will intern at Disney and LEGO before completing her coterminal degree in computer science.Additional footage provided by Nikolas Liepins.MB012OIBH50TPGY
How Stanford’s architecture balances old and new Stanford 2024-05-14 | Stanford’s campus preservation architect Sapna Marfatia takes us on a tour of some of campus’s most iconic landmarks, showing how Stanford’s architecture has evolved with the needs and demands of the times.MB019JSTQSJLV6PMB01NVOAWWIKQBB
Stanford robot learns from humans Stanford 2024-05-14 | Stanford engineers have created a low-cost robot called Mobile ALOHA that can quickly learn everyday tasks – such as cooking, cleaning, and giving high-fives. The key is a unique training process that involves a person taking the robot through its paces in a puppet-like learning mode.MB01XK377FXOLSA
Meet Liana Keesing, BS ’23, MS ’24 Stanford 2024-05-14 | What has made coterm student Liana Keesing’s experience at Stanford so special is being surrounded by people who want to make a difference in the world. While working toward her undergraduate degree and coterminal master's degree, both in electrical engineering, Keesing helped reimagine civic engagement at Stanford. Some of her efforts include running voter turnout and participation initiatives with StanfordVotes and Democracy Day.Most recently, Keesing has been working for the U.S. Senate Committee for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on AI policy, an area she hopes to work in after graduating from Stanford in June. Keesing was also captain of the women's fencing team and is a cello player and dancer. In 2022, she received a Truman Scholarship, which provides support to attend graduate school in preparation for careers in public service.MB01HGPYGTBMXMD
Meet Our Faculty: Tadashi Tokieda Stanford 2024-05-14 | Tadashi Tokieda’s lectures are often billed as magic shows. But magicians who pull rabbits out of hats guard their magic tricks, so as not to spoil the secrets of their show. Tokieda describes his magic as completely open and reproducible. “This is a special brand of magic that has a traditional name. It’s called science,” he says. "I’m just introducing spectators to nature, and nature to spectators.”🗞: stanford.io/3SQneKkMB014TEQWIDAORM
Stanford’s 53rd annual powwow celebrates indigenous women Stanford 2024-05-14 | The annual Stanford Powwow, the largest student-led event of its kind, brought together hundreds of tribes from around the nation.
Get to know Mariachi Cardenal de Stanford Stanford 2024-05-10 | A student ensemble group that began in 1994 with just a few members has become an integral part of the Stanford community, with members from a variety of musical backgrounds and majors who come together to socialize with friends and make mariachi music. Performing mariachi is like storytelling, says Marvin Galdamez. "It's a rollercoaster of emotions depending on what you're playing."
The Neuroscience of Manifestation Stanford 2024-05-10 | In his new book, neurosurgeon and Stanford Adjunct Professor of Medicine James Doty turns to the latest research findings in neuroscience to explain what manifestation does to the brain and body. According to Doty, our attention can be redirected in a way that can change our brains – literally. With the right practice, we can strengthen our brain’s gray matter, the neural tissue that helps us learn and grow and ultimately leads us to realizing our potential.MB01MHLYE2KW5TP
Stanford’s engagement with the community and the world Stanford 2024-05-03 | Community partners and Stanford University faculty and staff describe why engagement is needed to solve mutual challenges
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
