With a recent Yale University study suggesting that students in smaller majors are happier than their counterparts in larger programs due to greater access to and familiarity with faculty, Stanford’s professors and department chairs have emphasized their own efforts to avoid such a divide.
Seventy-nine percent of declared HumBio majors are female, while women constitute 66 percent of declared IR majors.
Stanford researchers have recently shown that early snowmelts for two consecutive years may significantly affect variations in butterfly population growth rates, demonstrating a link between climate change and insect population.
As an international student from Nigeria, Ude initially experienced significant culture shock coming to Stanford. She spent her first three years of college coming to terms with both her preconceived notions about the United States–California in particular–and the United States’ assumptions about her.