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- Stanford rolls out the Cardinal carpet for 1,737 freshman and transfers
- Today is move in day for the Class of 2019. For the next six days, students will be introduced to life on the Farm during New Student Orientation. Read more »
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- Religious historian casts new light on Hindu-Muslim relations
- Audrey Trushke, a Mellon fellow, has uncovered a surprising cultural alliance in Muslim and Hindu elites in early Sanskrit texts. Her findings could help ease tensions between the two groups. Read more »
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- Stanford scholar casts new light on Hindu-Muslim relations
- Stanford religious historian Audrey Truschke uncovers a surprising cultural alliance between Muslim and Hindu elites in early Sanskrit texts. Her findings could help ease current tensions between the two groups. Read more »
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- Nathan Rosenberg, Stanford professor and expert on the economic history of technology, dead at 87
- Nathan Rosenberg, the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy, Emeritus, in Stanford’s Department of Economics, died Aug. 24 at the Vi at Palo Alto, at the age of 87. Read more »
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- Stanford scholar discovers unknown Magna Carta scribe
- Manuscript expert Elaine Treharne shows that one of the world’s most famous documents was written not by the king’s scribes, but by a cathedral scribe outside the central court. Read more »
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- Stanford philosopher strengthens Kant’s connection to natural science and Newton
- Research by philosophy Professor Michael Friedman reveals how a lesser-known Kantian text serves as an important bridge between Kant’s concepts of metaphysics and natural science, as well as between defining periods in Kant’s development. Read more »
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- Stanford historian says falsified medieval history helped create feminism
- Through research into the first historians of medieval Europe, Professor Paula Findlen discovers that an interest in women’s history began much earlier than is assumed. Read more »
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- Resilience is the theme of Stanford’s summer reading program for incoming students
- Members of the Class of 2019 are reading books selected by President John Hennessy. The Three Books program serves as an intellectual springboard for freshmen and transfer students. Read more »
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- Stanford sociologist urges rethinking of sex and gender in surveys
- New research reveals that most social surveys are not measuring what surveyors think is being measured when it comes to sex and gender. Read more »
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- Stanford research shows how to improve science students’ critical thinking
- Physicists at Stanford and the University of British Columbia have found that encouraging students to repeatedly make decisions about data collected during introductory lab courses improves their critical thinking skills. Read more »
