While Admit Weekend provides ProFros with an array of fun activities and experiences, it can be hard to get a true sense of Stanford life after just a few days. A number of factors and potential glitches can alter the way you view the people and life at Stanford. You and your RoHo could have [...]

“Normal people write but crazy people have ‘writings,’ ” said Dave Eggers, author of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” and “You Shall Know Our Velocity,” on Wednesday night during his talk on the link between art and politics. Eggers began by admitting that he was “not always a political person” and that it took [...]

Author Peter Han spoke last night at the Graduate School of Business as a part of his 10-city book tour promoting his book, “Nobodies to Somebodies,” for which he interviewed 100 successful and influential leaders, including Fortune 500 chief executive officers, Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, U.S. senators and leaders of major nonprofits. The interviews [...]

More than 275 children between the ages of 10 and 15 visited the Stanford campus yesterday for the annual Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day. The program, themed “Power in Possibilities,” was administered by the WorkLife Office.
Students and their parents began the day by attending a panel discussion with University Provost John Etchemendy [...]

Six years ago, Dr. Philip Pizzo left a children’s hospital in Boston to become the dean of Stanford’s School of Medicine. Soon after his arrival, he received an e-mail from an assistant professor detailing the difficulties he was facing in his clinical research.
In response, Pizzo assembled a survey of clinical researchers who found that more [...]

The Stanford Institute for Design, commonly referred to as the d.school is in the process of being launched. It will be a place for interdisciplinary design research and teaching. Projects and courses at the d.school will mainly be offered to graduate students in engineering, medicine, business, the humanities and education, although undergraduates and faculty [...]

Tucked discreetly in the southwestern corner of campus alongside the golf course, the Red Barn — an enduring witness to Stanford’s century-long progression from a no-man’s land to a leading academic and technological hub — stands as a vivid reminder of why the University continues to be nicknamed “the Farm” today.
But the historic building, like [...]

More than 80 students packed the Drake Lounge at Ujamaa on Wednesday night for a town hall meeting with Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education John Bravman regarding the proposed move of the African-American theme house to Florence Moore Hall.
Although the controversial change, part of a larger housing overhaul pitched earlier this year, would likely not [...]

Even as admissions officers herald the most diverse class of admitted undergraduate students, the University continues to struggle when it comes to increasing the representation of women and minorities on its faculty.
A report presented at yesterday’s Faculty Senate meeting by the Office of the Provost detailed minor gains in the numbers of minorities and women [...]

Stanford is about to take a giant step toward fulfilling University President John Hennessy’s vision of a “global university.”
Hennessy announced yesterday that Stanford has raised $94 million dollars in gifts for a new multi-disciplinary program focused on international studies.
This international initiative is the latest in a series of large-scale interdisciplinary projects to be launched, and [...]