April 2016
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- Music faculty win Guggenheim fellowships
- Congratulations to Jonathan Berger, who received his fellowship for composition, and Ge Wang, who was recognized for music research. The fellowships are awarded to midcareer individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Read more »
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- Stanford historian studies how U.S. intervention in Afghanistan changed that country
- Drawing on archives and oral testimony, historian Robert Crews discovers an Afghanistan that hardly fits the forbidding image that has fueled the U.S. military’s disastrous intervention there. Read more »
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- Three H&S faculty elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Congratulations to Eavan Boland, Jennifer Eberhardt, and Helen Longino for being among six Stanford faculty tapped to join AAAS, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies. Read more »
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- Stanford’s map center devoted to the ‘joyful exploration of all things cartographic’
- The David Rumsey Map Center, which contains more than 150,000 rare maps, atlases, globes and pocket maps, will celebrate its grand opening next week, with an evening open house on Tuesday, special presentations and workshops on Wednesday and Thursday, and a daylong open house on Friday. Read more »
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- Nate Parker to deliver annual lecture hosted by Stanford’s African & African American Studies progra
- April 20 event is free and open to the public. Read more »
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- Stanford humanities students cook up Julia Child’s recipes, study history
- Kristen Haring takes her American studies class into a “teaching kitchen” to study the famed chef’s impact on American culture. Read more »
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- Popular vote better than Electoral College, Stanford scholars say
- The Electoral College distorts presidential campaigns, disenfranchises voters and drives partisanship, Stanford scholars say. They suggest constitutional reforms to adopt a single national popular vote where the one-person, one-vote concept applies. Read more »
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- Ram’s Head Theatrical Society at Stanford presents Rent – still relevant, still rocking
- The student-run company utilizes new staging strategies in Memorial Auditorium. Read more »
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- Partners in discovery: SLAC + Stanford collaborations
- Working together, researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford expand our knowledge of materials, molecules and the universe. Read more »
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- Stanford historian examines age-old inquiry about what it means to be ‘living’
- In research covering four centuries of scientific debate, Stanford historian Jessica Riskin investigates different views of man and machine, and how this debate laid the groundwork for later theories of evolution and science. Read more »