Members of Stanford Student Robotics’ Extreme Mobility team presented Stanford Doggo earlier this month at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Stanford Doggo holds the record among all robots for vertical jumping agility, which is how fast and high the robot can jump.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, spoke at Stanford's Memorial Auditorium on Wednesday on the intersection of sports, race, religion and politics.

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The Undergraduate Advising and Research (UAR) office is pursuing plans to add 12 more full-time advisors to its staff, and considering assigning students a single academic advisor with whom they remain throughout their academic career. UAR is also considering modifications to the Stanford Newcomer Guide (SNG) program.

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Meredith Monk, an artist and composer, and members of the Vocal Ensemble will perform Monk’s new work “Cellular Songs,” this upcoming Saturday at Bing Concert Hall as part of Stanford Live, the university’s performing arts producer. The piece combines images, movement, film and music and was inspired by Monk’s fascination with the cell as a source of life.

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Designed as a cross-cultural comparative course, CHINA 70N: “Animal Planet and the Romance of the Species,” was offered the winter quarter of 2019.

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On Tuesday, Eric Chu, who plans to run for president of Taiwan in the 2020 general election, visited Stanford University and emphasized the importance of giving more power to Taiwan’s future economy.

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At the full-day collaborative workshop “AI, Humanities, & the Arts,” speakers stressed artificial intelligence’s potential to supplement human capabilities rather than replace them.

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Stanford’s Digital Humanities minor aims to integrate research into academics by offering undergraduates the opportunity to apply computational and digital tools to their pursuits in the humanities.

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In spring 2018, the mean on the first MATH 51 midterm was 77 percent; in fall, the mean was 92 percent. On the second midterm, the mean was 68 percent in spring and 87 percent in fall.

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The Office of Community Standards (OCS) saw 207 total cases — 180 of which were honor code cases — in the 2017-2018 school year, presenters told the Faculty Senate at Thursday’s meeting.

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Over the past four years, the Stanford Global Studies (SGS) Division of the School of

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On Tuesday, Hoover Institution scholars addressed China's recent tightening of policy regarding Taiwan and considered what the United States’ role should be in maintaining the three-way political balance.

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The China Guiding Cases Project (CGCP) will launch the third issue of its quarterly professional journal, China Law Connect (CLC), in December.

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Researchers in the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab (SVL) are teaching a robot called JackRabbot 2 to understand social rules that humans use to interact with each other, with the ultimate goal of operating a robot that navigates safely and autonomously.  

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