“There was too much of an emphasis on polls as a predictive tool,” said Bruce Cain, a professor of political science and director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. He said that these polls were more dependent on modeling, which can bring additional assumptions, and recommended that polls be treated as “noisy data, not as tablets from heaven.”
Senior fellow at Brookings Institute and former National Security Council official Fiona Hill talks about the security challenge that Russia poses to the United States and Europe, noting the West’s past failures to address increasing Russian aggression following the Cold War.
Although issues of short notice and lack of consultation prevented the Faculty Senate from mandating Election Day 2020 an academic holiday, the Faculty Senate approved a measure to encourage faculty flexibility on Nov. 3, in addition to introducing a task force to recommend new infrastructure for the study of race at Stanford.
Stanford siblings Antonia Hellman ’21 M.S. ’22 and Ethan Hellman ’23 began working on Toucan following Stanford’s shutdown in March, hoping to create a platform that allows communities to grow closer together within a virtual space.
Members of the Faculty Senate expressed disappointment in the University’s pushback against open letter criticizing White House advisor and Hoover Institution senior fellow Scott Atlas, as well as federally mandated changes to Title IX procedures, which disincentivize the reporting of sexual assault.
In an event hosted by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, panelists discuss the importance of departmentalizing African and African-American Studies as a means of allowing the discipline to evolve and to acknowledge its importance within academia.
Stanford’s COVID-19 testing procedure, designed by leading Stanford experts in medicine and science, relies on the frequent testing of asymptomatic students and staff, as well the diversification of testing methodology.
Stanford class of 2020 alums Sheck Mulbah, Garry Archbold, Mekhi Jones and Mamadou Diallo launch “The Comeup Collective,” a podcast that follows their journeys navigating the academic and professional world.