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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 by a dean, a land-use decision…
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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 at its center.
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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 how fundamental research actually pays off.
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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 one tool in a longer search…
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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 good essayist turn out to be…
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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 headlines suggest.
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The Patient Owner: An Analytical Primer on Private Equity
Private equity is often caricatured as either financial alchemy or corporate plunder; a clearer view begins with how the model actually works and where its returns come from.
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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 always been as much a culture…
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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 a new Chronicle series sets out…
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What Makes a Dissertation Matter
Most doctoral theses are read by a handful of people, yet the best of them change how a field thinks; an introduction to a new series on the…