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New website shows career paths for Stanford Ph.D. graduates
(Courtesy of Linda Cicero/Stanford News Service) A new website provides extensive data about the career paths of Stanford Ph.D. alumni, showing how fields are expanding and how students can best...
View ArticleStanford Diversity Exchange gives exchange students a year at Stanford
Through Stanford’s Diversity Exchange program, four students from Spelman College, Morehouse College and Howard University have swapped places with Stanford students this quarter. Though Stanford may...
View ArticleBarrio Assistance group overcomes organizational struggles
Barrio Assistance, Stanford’s entirely student-run tutoring group for elementary and middle school children, has a fresh group of student coordinators this fall. Barrio operates without advisors or...
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ASSU Senate talks new sexual assault adjudication process
The 17th ASSU Undergraduate Senate convenes to discuss the new sexual assault adjudication process. (McKENZIE LYNCH/The Stanford Daily) In its fourteenth meeting on Tuesday night, the ASSU...
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Visual artists bring humor to campus through Storyboard Club
(Courtesy of the Stanford Storyboard Club) Stanford Storyboard Club, an unconventional group of Stanford visual artists, will roll out a variety of projects this year to provide a dose of amusement to...
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Professor emeritus Oleg Sherby dies at 90
Professor emeritus of materials science and engineering Oleg Sherby died at age 90. (Courtesy of the Stanford News Service) Oleg D. Sherby, professor emeritus of materials science and engineering...
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Fad diets change how society approaches health, Stanford graduate student...
Fad diets reveal a societal obsession with pre-modern times, according to new research by Stanford doctoral candidate Adrienne Rose Johnson. Her dissertation, “Diet and the Disease of Civilization,...
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Alice Rivlin wins SIEPR $100,000 prize for work in economic policy
(Courtesy of Brookings Institution) Alice Rivlin, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and an important player in the first Clinton and Obama administrations, will receive the Stanford Institute...
View ArticleStudent hosts pop-up dinner
It was Saturday night, and aspiring chef Nate Gruver ’18 was serving the first of three fine-dining “pop-up” dinners to 60 students. The dinner cost $25 to attend and included twelve rich courses, from...
View ArticleQ&A with Emma Seppala on ‘successaholism’
Emma Seppala Ph.D. ’09 is the Science Director of Stanford’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. Her recent book “The Happiness Track” details the phenomenon of “successaholism,”...
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Glam Grads Q&A with Lauren Benditt
The Stanford Daily is starting a new weekly feature of Stanford graduate students. Lauren Benditt is a sixth-year PhD candidate in sociology with an interest in inequality and poverty. For our first...
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Q&A with political science Ph.D. student Lily Lamboy
Lily Lamboy is a fourth-year Ph.D. in the political science department with a focus on political theory and social inequality. She has been a teaching assistant for POLISCI 136S: Justice for three...
View ArticleBOSP eases language requirements to attract more students
While language skills have traditionally been a prerequisite to study abroad, Stanford is gradually weakening the language requirements of its Bing Overseas Study Program (BOSP). Of the 12 quarter-long...
View ArticleInfection research center receives $10 million grant for salmonella
The Allen Discovery Center for Multiscale Systems Modeling of Macrophage Infection, a new center at Stanford, has received $10 million to research salmonella poisoning, according to a Food Safety News...
View ArticleAthletics teams’ academics recognized by NCAA
Four men’s and 10 women’s Stanford athletic programs earned perfect scores in the NCAA’s multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR). The annual APR tracks academic eligibility, student-athlete retention...
View Article‘Beethoven in China’ traces Chinese affinity for Beethoven
Jindong Cai, associate professor of performance at the Center for East Asian Studies, first heard Beethoven at age 12. In the midst of China’s Cultural Revolution, the German composer’s music managed...
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Glam Grads with Aaron Heshel Silverman
In this edition of Glam Grads, The Daily talked with fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in sociology Aaron Heshel Silverman about his storied path to sociology and the way social science research has changed....
View ArticleStanford student sues Trump over travel ban
Several Bay Area students, including Stanford’s Hadil Mansoor Al-Mowafak ’20 from Yemen, have filed a lawsuit through the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that declares Trump’s recent executive...
View ArticleBLACKstage revives conversations about race in theater community
BLACKstage president Samantha Williams ’17 remembers being told in her sophomore year that “putting a body of color onstage is inherently a political act.” She fought her director on the point then,...
View ArticleSenate discusses Band and SHPRC suit, new bills
In its meeting Tuesday night, the 18th Undergraduate Senate discussed the Constitutional Council’s decision to move forward with a suit that Band and Stanford Health Peer Resource Center (SHPRC) filed...
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A photo of every protest: Stanford archivists memorialize activism as it unfolds
Plagued by immediate concerns like the daily risk of caffeine overdose and that last problem on the midterm, few Stanford students stop to consider a more existential question: “What will be my legacy...
View ArticleUnion seeks Habla expansion, questions University commitment
For Angel Parra, an irrigation grounds worker who has been at Stanford for 15 years, getting an English as a Second Language (ESL) education has been tough. Because he lives 80 miles away from campus,...
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Colorado scores highest in water transfer policies
Of the seven states in the Colorado River Basin, Colorado scores highest in support for environmental water transfer policy, according to a new report from Stanford’s Water in the West (Courtesy of...
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The privilege to fail
A bird guided between pipes with a few snappy turns of the wrist. Virtual assistants hired on-demand. A photo that vanishes in moments, adorned with finger drawings and new effects. An “invention...
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Bromley-Dulfano, Teo withdraw from ASSU Exec race
Rebecca Bromley-Dulfano ’18 and Zhi Ping Teo ’18 have dropped out of the race for ASSU Executive following would-be vice president Teo’s decision to take a medical leave of absence spring quarter....
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Moral judgment effective in encouraging cooperation, professor finds
The threat of moral judgment causes people to cooperate better in groups, reveals a new study from Professor of Sociology Robb Willer and two University of South Carolina professors. Although...
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Stanford junior wins Truman Scholarship
Alexis Kallen hopes to use her scholarship for a dual J.D. and master’s degree (Courtesy of Alexis Kallen). Alexis Kallen ’18, a political science and feminist, gender and sexuality studies major, has...
View ArticleSeveral students report issues with ASSU election ballots
Students who took a leave of absence last quarter did not receive ballots for ASSU elections, while some others who were enrolled all year also at least initially did not find their ballots, The Daily...
View ArticleViewing time as money boosts stress, researcher says
People who perceive time as money are significantly more stressed than those who have a more fluid vision of time, according to new research by Thomas D. Dee II Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer Ph.D. ’72 at...
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Stanford researchers reveal how to study more effectively
Patricia Chen, postdoctoral fellow in psychology, is lead author on a paper that investigated study habits (Courtesy of Stanford News). In a recent study published in Psychological Science, Stanford...
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On this day in Stanford history…
The Daily is reviving “On This Day in Stanford History,” a feature which details unusual or humorous events on the same date in past years from the Daily archives. According to the Stanford Daily...
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On this day in Stanford history…
At a Black Community Meeting in 1978, students expressed concern that a black professor would not be given tenure (GREG HAERTL/The Stanford Daily). The feature “On This Day in Stanford History” details...
View ArticleFitness trackers vary widely in accuracy, researchers find
Researchers from the Stanford School of Medicine have found that popular fitness trackers such as Fitbit generally record accurate heart rates, but the accuracy with which they measure calories burned...
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On this day in Stanford history …
The feature “On this day in Stanford history” details unusual or humorous events that occurred on the same date or week in past years from The Daily archives. According to The Stanford Daily archives,...
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Union worries Stanford’s Redwood City expansion may not include its workers
University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne spoke at the Redwood City campus’s recent groundbreaking (Courtesy of Stanford News). As construction for Stanford’s satellite campus in Redwood City...
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Over 50 workers protest ‘chronic understaffing,’‘unacceptable workloads’ in...
Workers from two dining halls hand-delivered petitions to Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE) management on Tuesday, lodging a complaint against what they describe as “chronic...
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