After the expulsion of two councilors for non-attendance in meetings, the Graduate Student Council (GSC) selected third-year earth system science Ph.D. student June Choi and sustainable design and construction master’s student Leon de Souza to replace them. Choi and de Souza will serve in the 2023-24 GSC term, which ends in June 2024. They were … [Read more…]
Students expressed fears over the future of diversity and inclusivity at Stanford, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action. The Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) June ruling against the consideration of race within college admissions elicited impassioned reactions from Stanford’s community student groups, who worried about the potential impact the decision would … [Read more…]
Like navigating the ocean, piloting a three-week Sophomore College (SoCo) class centered around working on a ship can be unpredictable and tumultuous. Ample opportunity exists for plans to change — especially when the ship is not there. The Western Flyer, a historic ship famed for use by John Steinbeck in the 1940s, was expected to … [Read more…]
As mass incarceration rates remain a prevalent issue in the United States, Stanford graduate school programs are working to reduce prison populations in California through legislative reform and reentry services. The U.S. prison population started to grow during the 1970s, and exploded the following decade when the Reagan administration undertook a “war on drugs” that … [Read more…]
Six Stanford students competed in the 2023 FISU World University Games in Chengdu, China this summer — the first time the games were hosted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alex Lee ’22 M.S. ’23, Marisol Torro ’24, Amy Tang ’25, Judy Liu ’26, Zhier Fan ’26 and Hayden Kwan ’26 attended the competition, … [Read more…]
Students conducted research on early cancer detection at the Canary Cancer Research Education Summer Training (CREST) program this summer, working under faculty mentors for 10 weeks. Canary CREST, which is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), offers a unique research experience for a select group of undergraduate students each year. Students from both Stanford … [Read more…]
Despite being a small community — just 57 were accepted last year, with an acceptance rate of under two percent — transfer students have driven campus-wide changes and led myriad initiatives to improve the transfer experience. Christian Sanchez ’24, former Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) vice president, spearheaded advocacy for the implementation of a … [Read more…]
When Sam Boeschen ’25 enters the rock climbing wall at the Arrillaga Outdoor Education & Recreation Center (AOERC), he finds a “feeling of total concentration.” Boeschen, the co-captain of Stanford Climbing Team, gathers his teammates at the AOERC climbing wall to bond as they work through mental challenges in climbing workouts. The climbing community at … [Read more…]
Shortly after she moved in, Greta Holmes ’27 was already dipping her toes into Stanford’s culture — literally. On her first night on campus, Holmes and her fellow Branner residents organized an unofficial orientation event: a fountain-hopping tour of campus. Ruby Coulson’s ’27 favorite moment came before Holmes had even stepped foot onto campus. She … [Read more…]
A new program from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — Artemis — seeks to send U.S. astronauts to the moon in 2025 or 2026 and build a lunar base camp in the next decade. But the estimated budget of $93 billion by the mission’s launch raised questions for many of whether NASA should … [Read more…]