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Six Strings and a Centennial: Stanford Live Turns Late October Toward the Guitar, the Blues and the Beats
Over the next eleven days, Stanford Live puts its season-long argument about the guitar and America at center stage: Julian Lage at Bing, a Georgia bluesman and a Veracruz son jarocho ensemble in The Studio, a Lerner and Loewe master class, and a tribute to…
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Woodside’s Rural Ideal Meets the Housing Mandate
A 16-story builder's remedy proposal, a hard-fought family housing project and a dispute over two horses on half an acre reveal a…
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Mountain View Chooses a New Council, With No Incumbents on the Ballot
Eight candidates are competing for three open seats in a city that has become the Peninsula's laboratory for housing, street design and…
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Atherton’s Old Depot Becomes a Museum as the State Redraws the Town’s Future
On Sunday the town opened its restored train station as a museum, six years after the last trains stopped. The ceremony comes…
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Menlo Park’s Downtown Dilemma: Parking, Plazas and the Stakes of Measure P
A plan to build affordable homes on city parking lots faces multimillion-dollar gaps and a ballot measure that would put the lots…
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The Museum That Refused to Stay Fallen
Twice broken by earthquakes and once nearly abandoned, Stanford's art museum offers a quiet argument for why a university needs the humanities…
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Two Miles Straight: SLAC and the Long Patience of Basic Science
In the hills west of campus, a linear accelerator begun in 1962 still powers discovery, and its story is a lesson in…
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From the Foothills to the Front Page: How Stanford Learned to Build With Computers
A laboratory in the hills, a department founded in 1965 and a graduate-student search project together explain why computing at Stanford has…
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Why the Faculty Book Still Matters
In an age of preprints and feeds, the slow, argued book remains the place where scholars make their most durable claims, and…
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The Provisional Generation: Notes on the Spirit of the Times at Stanford
A broken federal compact, a chilled culture of argument, a technology that rewrites the future of work, and a student body asked…
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The Altered Photograph: Trust, Identity and AI on the Farm
When a university office used generative AI to change a student's race and gender in a promotional image, it exposed a question…
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What Stanford Inherits, and What It Owes the Next Generation
Founded by grieving parents as a gift to "the children of California," Stanford now faces hard questions about legacy admissions, access and…
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The Humanities at Stanford Face Their Reckoning, and Their Opening
Humanities degrees at Stanford have fallen by more than half in two decades, and computer science, long the default, is now shrinking…
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The Row and the Question: Greek Life at a University That Keeps Rethinking It
Fraternities and sororities have occupied a contested place at Stanford for more than a century, and their history reveals how a university…
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Beyond the Résumé: Rethinking What Counts as Student Achievement
Prizes and fellowships make headlines, but the most telling achievements at Stanford are often the institutions students build and sustain for those…
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The Shape of Autumn on the Farm
From the first week of classes to the rivalry that closes the football season, Stanford's fall quarter moves to a rhythm set…
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A Standing Invitation: The Stanford Programs Open to Everyone
Behind the gates of a famously selective university lies a surprising number of programs, spaces and offerings open to anyone curious enough…
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The Philosophy of the Hill: What the Dish Loop Teaches About Exercise
A paved trail through the foothills behind campus has become the Peninsula's shared gym, and its steep, unforgiving grades carry a lesson…
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What a University Kitchen Can Teach Us About Eating Well
Feeding thousands of people every day turns out to be a laboratory for some of the most practical questions in nutrition, from…
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Love in the Age of the Algorithm
Campus romance has been reshaped by apps, questionnaires and a new vocabulary of consent, but the oldest questions about intimacy remain stubbornly…
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Six Strings and a Centennial: Stanford Live Turns Late October Toward the Guitar, the Blues and the Beats
Over the next eleven days, Stanford Live puts its season-long argument about the guitar and America at center stage: Julian Lage at…
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A Field Guide to Dining Near the Farm
From a Michelin-starred tasting room on California Avenue to a Venezuelan café at the main library, the restaurants around Stanford form a…
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The Seminar at the Table: In Praise of the Dinner Party
Long before there were lecture halls, there were dinners where ideas were argued over wine; reviving that tradition may be one of…
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Over the Hill: The Coast That Waits West of Campus
Just beyond the ridge that frames Stanford's skyline lies a different California of fog, farms and elephant seals, close enough for a…
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Terman’s Bargain: How a Land-Rich, Cash-Poor University Helped Seed Silicon Valley
The story of Stanford and the tech industry is often told as one of garages and genius, but its foundations were laid…
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Reading the Recruiting Season Without Losing the Plot
Campus recruiting can feel like a conveyor belt toward a few prestigious employers, but the students who fare best treat it as…
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The Application as an Argument
A job application is not a form to be filled out but a case to be made, and the habits of a…
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What the Endowment Model Can and Cannot Teach the Individual Investor
University endowments have become symbols of long-horizon investing, but the lessons they offer individual savers are subtler, and more cautionary, than the…
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Birdies for Her: Stanford’s Golf Champions Win at Home, and Play for Something Larger
The defending national champions won the Stanford Intercollegiate by 19 strokes, Meja Örtengren took the medal, and the PlayForHer campaign behind the…
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Fifty Years of Champions, and a Map That No Longer Makes Sense
Stanford arrives at its third ACC season with the longest title streak in college sports, a football team relearning how to win,…
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Tavita Pritchard’s First Autumn, and the Patience a Rebuild Requires
Seven games into his tenure, Stanford's new head coach has a 3-4 record, a breakout running back and a schedule that will…
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Two Programs, One Pavilion, and a Winter of Proving
The men must replace a scoring star now in the NBA. The women, with no seniors and a demanding schedule, are chasing…