2000 — 2009
2000 Marriage of art and medicine
Bridging sciences and the arts, Audrey Shafer launches the Arts and Humanities Medical Scholars Program, which …
2000 Spring Arts Festival in bloom
An Art Affair, the annual festival organized by SOCA (Student Organizing Committee for the Arts), provides …
JAN 2000 Twenty-three of the 35 carillon bells that hang in Hoover Tower are shipped to the Netherlands to be refurbished and returned
The carillon bells were removed from the Hoover Tower in January 2000 and sent to the …
JUN 2001 Continuo-ing organic variation
The three-stop Continuo organ further enhances the diversity of church music repertoire. Built by Martin Pasi, …
2001–2002 The Institute for Diversity in the Arts is born
The press release titled “The Institute for Diversity in the Arts Opens in 2001-02” reads: “The …
2002 Roble Gym is turned over completely to Drama and Dance
Roble Gym was the “Women’s Gym” for decades.
2003 Importing Arts with a Persian Panache
The establishment of the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies galvanized scholarly and artistic …
2003 Inscribing Expression
The formation of Project WRITE (i.e. Project for Writing and Reading as Tools of Education), activates …
2004 The context of the SUDAC, established in 1997, expands and becomes the Experimental Media Arts program
The Stanford University Digital Art Center, SUDAC, was founded in 1997 by Greg Niemeyer and Joel …
2005 The University launches the Stanford Challenge
The Stanford Challenge was a five-year campaign aimed at seeking solutions to complex global problems and …
DEC 2006 The STAMP-ing Grounds of Progress
The Stanford Theatre Activist Mobilization Project (STAMP) is dedicated to educating students about politics through theater …
2007 Hands-on Art Objects Get All Fired Up
Since 2007, the Stanford Ceramics Club has offered classes, events, and drop-in studio hours for students …
2007 Labyrinthine Liturgies, New Age Style
In conjunction with the recent revival of liturgical dance in the United States, Memorial Church acquired …
2008 Deedee and Burton McMurtry donate $30 million toward the construction of the McMurtry Building
The future home of the Department of Art and Art History will be located on Roth …
FEB 2009 Rodin Works on View in Three Galleries, Plus Outdoor Sculpture
On February 18, 2009, the Cantor Arts Center’s entire collection of works in bronze, plaster, ceramic, …
2009 See the Music, Hear the Dance
Under the directorship of TAPS faculty member, dancer, and choreographer Aleta Hayes, Chocolate Heads experiments with …
2009 The Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound celebrates its 50th anniversary
One of the largest sound archives in the United States, the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound …
2000 Marconi Union
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JUN 23, 2008 Creativity on Caffeine
When Stanford Dining announced the imminent demolishment of the student Coffee House in 2007, they did …