As a powerhouse in Silicon Valley, Stanford holds significant responsibility for the integration of ethics into the tech industry, argue some students and professors.
Students participating in SoCo 2021 will have to comply with University COVID regulations, including social distancing guidelines and COVID testing requirements. If conditions in Santa Clara County make in-person activities unsafe, some courses will move online, while others will be cancelled.
As part of a three-part series on Stanford’s Guggenheim fellows, meet law and history professor Amalia Kessler and political science professor Jonathan Rodden.
For professors who enjoy teaching in an interactive manner, the students projected on the monitor can make it feel like they're lecturing in a real classroom.
“It was a beautiful symbiotic experience: section leaders got professional development, students got an amazing human-centered experience” wrote Chris Piech, CS professor and co-founder of Code in Place.
Instructors from a variety of disciplines — including genetics and pediatrics — have created courses to allow students to learn more about the current pandemic.
Here are some ‘underrated classes’ that students have taken and loved, ranging from small introsems to lectures with hundreds of students, writes Hannah Basali.
Provost Persis Drell applauded Stanford’s low prevalence rates, despite the surge in cases being seen “in some other places,” in a Monday message to students.
Infectious diseases expert Yvonne Maldonado speculated that athletes’ congregate living setup and social networks may have resulted in an increased frequency of cases within their on-campus population.