Several Stanford students started a sit-in at White Plaza at noon on Friday — they hope to break a 2015 record for the longest sit-in at Stanford. Demonstrators called on the University divest from and boycott Israeli ventures and academic institutions, provide resources to Palestinian and Palestinian-American students and issue a statement that condemns Israeli … [Read more…]
Nearly 1,000 people gathered at White Plaza on Friday in a rally to demand the University express support for Palestinian students and opposition to Israeli retaliation in Gaza and the West Bank. Across various speeches and a march from White Plaza to Memorial Church to Meyer Green, protestors called for the University to explicitly acknowledge … [Read more…]
Harvard professor Joseph P. Gone introduced a new approach to improving Indigenous mental health with a focus on intergenerational trauma, in a Wednesday talk titled “Communicating Indigenous Vitality in the Age of Historical Trauma.” Speaking at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) Conference Room as part of the Faculty Seminar Series, … [Read more…]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) named Stanford Medicine one of ten national Maternal Health Research Centers of Excellence in August, awarding the department of obstetrics and gynecology a $14 million grant to span seven years for their new initiative, PRIHSM (PReventing Inequities in Hemorrhage-related Severe Maternal morbidity). PRIHSM will establish a center focused on … [Read more…]
With a two-thirds majority vote, the Undergraduate Senate (UGS) passed a joint resolution on the future of affirmative action on Thursday. The vote comes on the heels of several weeks of debate around the resolution’s language on students’ parental occupation and legacy status. The Graduate Student Council (GSC) unanimously passed the resolution on Tuesday. The … [Read more…]
As Stanford’s Structured Liberal Education (SLE) officially reaches its 50th anniversary, students and faculty said a through line in the program history’s is its core values of support and community. SLE was founded by the late professor Mark Mancall in 1973 as a residential-based humanities program for frosh. The program will commemorate its success on … [Read more…]
Five global security intelligence leaders gathered at the Hoover Institute in their first public joint appearance ever on Tuesday. They addressed security threats to emerging technologies and the safeguarding of innovation and freedom at academic institutions. The Five Eyes intelligence partners — a coalition of five countries dedicated to global security which includes Australia, the … [Read more…]
The Faculty Senate held their second meeting of the quarter on Thursday, offering updates on the presidential search and discussing happenings within the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE). The Senate also acknowledged eight faculty members as Bass University Fellows, an honor recognizing “extraordinary contributions to the university’s undergraduate education.” Presidential search … [Read more…]
The Stanford University Department of Public Safety (SUDPS) is investigating “several incidents” on-campus related to the “violence in Israel and Gaza,” newly-inaugurated President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez wrote in a Thursday email to students. The email did not specify which incidents the department is investigating. This email comes over a week after the … [Read more…]
The Graduate Student Council (GSC) unanimously passed two joint resolutions on affirmative action and Associate Students of Stanford University (ASSU) election reform. The GSC also introduced a letter to the presidential search committee, which listed out a series of qualities they hope to see in a new president at its Tuesday meeting. Bill on affirmative … [Read more…]