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Vivian Auduong in her workspace. (Courtesy of Vivian Auduong at Swope Design Solutions)

Students explore Flex Term internships, social impact projects

Anuka Mohanpuhr
  •  
Dec. 9, 2020
Academics
Sticky notes and pictures taped to a whiteboard

d.school students, faculty re-envision digital spaces for learning and community

Jessica Zhu and Xinyi Wang
  •  
Dec. 7, 2020
Academics
Sik Lee Dennig at Tresidder Memorial Union in 2019 (Courtesy of Sik Lee Dennig)

Stanford cuts only Cantonese lecturing spot, putting future of program in doubt

Cameron Ehsan and Tom Quach
  •  
Dec. 1, 2020
Academics
(Photo courtesy of Daniel Khaleesi)

Q&A: Diversity makes us better, Stanford Law Review president says

Kirsten Mettler
  •  
Nov. 19, 2020
Academics
(Screenshot courtesy of Brightline)

Classy Classes: URBANST 164 offers community-driven sustainability approach

Kaushikee Nayudu and Sandi Khine
  •  
Nov. 17, 2020
Academics
The 2019 NSF-Alliance of Research Exchange Retreat at Stanford. (Photo courtesy of Lourdes Andrade, taken by Michael Spencer)

Stanford supports alliance of universities in diversifying STEM postdocs

Tianyu Fang
  •  
Nov. 10, 2020
Academics
(Photo: FRANCES GUO/The Stanford Daily)

DESINST 280 supports students working for racial justice

Lyanne Pineda
  •  
Nov. 8, 2020
Academics
(Photo: KING OF HEARTS/Wikimedia Commons)

Many students praise intro STEM classes for switch to S/NC grading

Stefan Velculescu
  •  
Oct. 21, 2020
Academics
(Photo: HANNAH KNOWLES/The Stanford Daily)

Condoleezza Rice’s critique that historians ask too narrow questions meets resistance

Evan Cheng
  •  
Oct. 20, 2020
Academics
Students use interactive videos on Pivot Interactives for data analysis in online lab classes (Screenshot: XINYI WANG/The Stanford Daily)

Shipped kits, simulations: Instructors try adapting labs, but still run up against virtual learning limitations

Xinyi Wang and Jessica Zhu
  •  
Oct. 12, 2020
Academics
The CARTA v2 homepage, which displayed a message to users saying the service was at risk of being shut down. (Screenshot: SAM CATANIA/The Stanford Daily)

Stanford pledges support for Carta after hundreds sign petition backing the project

Hannah Freeman and Sam Catania
  •  
Oct. 11, 2020
Academics
The McMurtry Building for Art & Art History. (Photo: UDIT GOYAL/The Stanford Daily)

One way Stanford art studio classes fight online-learning constraints? Mailing 3D printers

Jessica Zhu and Xinyi Wang
  •  
Oct. 6, 2020
Academics
The engineering quad.

Will a unit cap on majors at Stanford actually make them more accessible?

Jessica Zhu
  •  
Sept. 21, 2020
Academics
RYAN COHEN/The Stanford Daily

STS offers new 3-course sequence ‘Race in Science’

Melanie Zhou
  •  
Sept. 21, 2020
Academics
Pascaline Dupas, new Faculty Director of the King Center. (Photo: Rod Searcey, Courtesy of Pascaline Dupas)

New King Center faculty director talks future plans, research during COVID-19

Smiti Mittal
  •  
Sept. 17, 2020
University
Photo: L.A. CICERO/Stanford News Service

SLE founder and Stanford professor Mark Mancall dies at 87

Emily Schrader and Michael Alisky
  •  
Sept. 1, 2020
Academics
Social Dance instructor Richard Powers demonstrates with instructor Angela Amarillas. (Photo: L.A. CICERO/Stanford News Service)

Performance arts instructors develop new ways to engage students in anticipation of remote fall quarter

Matthew Turk
  •  
Aug. 30, 2020
News
(Photo: LINDA A. CICERO / Stanford News Service)

Unit cap, new first-year requirements a boon for academic exploration. Some ask: At what cost?

Ravi Smith and Sania Choudhary
  •  
Aug. 27, 2020
Academics
(Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

‘It wasn’t really worth it’: When instruction returns, some students won’t

Zenobia Lloyd
  •  
Aug. 24, 2020
News
Dillon Gisch (left) and Danny Smith (right) each won one of 24 Rome Prize awards for residential study in Rome, Italy. (PHOTO: Catherine Teitz, R.H. Harrison-Smith)

Graduate students Dillon Gisch and Danny Smith win Rome Prize

Matthew Turk
  •  
Aug. 20, 2020
The Stanford Daily

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