Every university has its official record and its unofficial one. The first is published in press releases and course catalogs. The second travels more quietly: across the Quad between classes, through lab hallways late at night, and around dinner tables from University Avenue to the leafy lanes of Atherton. The Weekly Digest is our attempt to keep the second record as carefully as the first.
What arrives in your inbox
- The talk of the Farm. The tidbits, rumors worth checking, and conversations circulating among students, faculty and staff, with a clear line drawn between what we have confirmed and what is merely being said.
- Research and the people behind it. New papers, new labs, new ideas, and the occasional faculty move that signals where a field is heading.
- The view from Building 10. Leadership decisions, administrative shifts and the campus politics that shape them.
- Beyond the Sandstone. What is opening, closing and quietly changing in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Atherton: the tables worth booking, the gatherings worth attending, and the local debates worth following.
- The week in The Chronicle. Our latest reporting across Academia, Campus Life, Lifestyle & Wellness, Food & Leisure, and Careers & Investing.
How often
Once a week. Brief enough to read over coffee, considered enough to keep.
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