Magazine: The university in an era of populism
While popular attention often focuses on glaring factual inaccuracies, fake news or Trump’s tirades towards the media, I fear these are merely symptoms of a broader shift in attitude. Specifically,...
Why The Daily matters: Our intellectual community
At its core, Stanford is both a birthplace of new information and a marketplace of ideas, and The Daily plays a vital role in this academic enterprise.
A culture in flux
Some in the University’s administration have come to see Stanford’s cultural DNA as “high-risk.” To be fair, this comes in the context of a broader birth of the university incorporated,...
International “Portal” opens at Crothers
The Stanford Portal, a shipping container that allows individuals to have face-to-face contact with others in distant portals, opened on Monday. The Portal uses immersive video and audio features to...
Board of Trustees declines to divest from fossil fuels
In a statement released Monday, Stanford's Board of Trustees announced that the University will not be divesting from the fossil fuel industry. The announcement comes in response to a campaign...
Stanford’s admission rate drops to 4.69 percent
A total of 1,318 high school seniors received letters of acceptance to Stanford’s Class of 2020 on Friday. An additional 745 early action students were accepted in December. The 2,063...
Stanford launching Knight-Hennessy scholarship to attract top graduates
Stanford is announcing the launch of a new graduate scholars program and associated $750 million endowment. The Knight-Hennessy scholars program will be analogous to the Rhodes and Schwarzman scholarships, aiming...
Q&A: Caroline Winterer discusses the digital humanities
The “digital humanities” is an increasingly popular field of research within humanities departments at Stanford and beyond. Yet what exactly is the digital humanities? To gain a better understanding of...
