Since March, students and faculty have voiced their concerns through petitions about topics ranging from housing to academics to workers’ rights. Here are a look at the petitions that have circulated since the beginning of March.

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Hosted by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), the conference was marked by its ambition to bring in a broad spectrum of expertise to tackle the pandemic.

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In the wake of coronavirus' spread, students have had to reconsider their travel and academic plans following travel restrictions and program cancellations. One student reported being mocked for potentially contracting the virus, an incident he identified as xenophobic.

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Over 300 bike accidents were reported on campus between January 2014 and December 2018, according to a Daily analysis of data provided by the Stanford Department of Public Safety (SUDPS).

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“You have a civic duty to participate in the caucuses, yeah, but it’s particularly easy when it is at the Haas Center,” said Trent Gilbert ’21, a first-time caucusgoer.

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In last Friday’s talk “Binary Choices: U.S.-China Strategic Competition and the Korean Peninsula,” visiting Georgetown professor Dr. Victor Cha shared insights from his current research about East Asian regional powers’ reaction to the recent U.S.-China rivalry.

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Authorized by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 1992, the program expanded in 2016 to allow students graduating with degrees in STEM an extension of up to 24 months (STEM OPT).

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Until last April, Jason Beckman, a fourth year Ph.D. student in Japanese literature, knew hardly anything about the Stanford University Press (SU Press). Even still, he had always admired the quality of the books published by the Press, which he often reviewed for his research.

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After months of tension over the future of the Stanford University Press (SU Press), which had its funding cut and conditionally restored earlier this year, the recommendations of a Provostial committee on the Press were released by the Office of the Provost on Thursday.

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There is “a real cognitive dissonance between American policy and business leaders about China,” Andrew Grotto said in his opening of a Tuesday talk on artificial intelligence (AI) and digital policy in China."

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LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and former U.S. chief data scientist DJ Patil gathered for the afternoon plenary session and discussed the importance of ethical decision-making in data management in the era of AI technology.  The two technologists, in conversation with Hoover Institution fellow Amy Zegart, shared visions for ethical education, concerns for data privacy and…

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“AI, Ain’t I a woman?” Tech ethics researcher Joy Buolamwini opened her talk with a 21st-century twist on a quote from Sojourner Truth, one of the most powerful advocates of abolitionist movement.  She then displayed a video showing facial recognition software failing to correctly identify the gender of notable African-American women, like Ida B. Wells,…

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In September, former Stanford math professor and ex-Google researcher Jack Poulson called on HAI to disinvite keynote speaker Eric Schmidt. In a letter co-signed by more than 40 former Google researchers, professors and tech activists, Poulson accused Schmidt of ethical misconduct during his time as CEO of Google.  HAI defended its decision to invite Schmidt,…

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Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Susan Athey Ph.D. ’95 and MIT Sloan professor Erik Brynjolfsson spoke about the effect of artificial intelligence on the economy.  Brynjolfsson remarked that “there’s no economic law that is everyone is going to benefit from all of these [technical] challenges; it’s possible for many people to have been left…

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Speaking to a crowd of 900 people on Monday morning, computer science professor Fei-Fei Li and former Provost John Etchemendy kicked off this fall’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) conference focused on “Ethics, Policy and Governance.”  The “ultimate goal of AI should be to enhance and augment our humanity, not to diminish or replace it,” Li…

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Songchen Yao ’23 was anxiously awaiting the result of his Stanford application in his hometown of Shenzhen, China early last spring when he heard the news about what would become the largest college admissions scandal to ever be prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice. Stanford was among many elite universities with individuals implicated in…

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More than two decades ago, then-Stanford undergraduate Julián Castro ’96 could not hide his disdain for his peers’ indifference to politics. In an op-ed he penned for The Daily, the ambitious young Latino described his experience of watching students who hesitated to sign his petition to run for Undergraduate Senate.

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