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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
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DESINST 280 supports students working for racial justice

Lyanne Pineda
  •  
Nov. 8, 2020
Academics
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Many students praise intro STEM classes for switch to S/NC grading

Stefan Velculescu
  •  
Oct. 21, 2020
Academics
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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
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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
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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
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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
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‘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
Academics
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Professor Norman Naimark wins Norris and Carol Hundley Award for book on Stalin’s postwar foreign policies

Matthew Turk
  •  
Aug. 10, 2020
Academics
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Administration considers long-term removal of Carta grade distributions

Esha Dhawan and Vilina Mehta
  •  
Aug. 5, 2020
News
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Stocks rally despite rise in US COVID-19 cases; professors share thoughts

Andy Wang
  •  
Aug. 5, 2020
Academics
Two buildings in the front, with one building peeking in between the two buildings in the back.

Graduate schools make changes to standardized testing admission requirements in light of COVID-19

Alena Zeng
  •  
July 21, 2020
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