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The life of the mind at Stanford: scholarship, discovery, and the ideas that outlast their moment.
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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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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…