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As the population ages, robots are poised to offer a helping hand, a leg up, and a pep for your step.
What It Was Like to Be an African American Freshman in 1962
A tiny but historic cohort of African American students entered Stanford on the vanguard of the civil rights movement. This is how it felt.
Magic in the Making
Heads plus hands equals wizardry in Engineering's Product Realization Lab.
by Sam Scott
This is Not Your Parents’ Economy
Inequality is putting the American Dream in peril.
by Rebecca Beyer
The Story Behind ‘Homegoing’
Yaa Gyasi, ’11, was a Stanford sophomore when she visited her native Ghana on a research mission. Seven years later, the debut novel her trip inspired became an international sensation.
by Sam Scott
Help the People, Save the Fish
One student's quest to understand the aquarium trade, and the fishers who depend on it.
by Sandra Upson
The Go-To Group
Worries, fears, struggles with school resident assistants hear it all, and do their best to help.
Should We Lose the Lecture?
An atomic physicist makes the case for active learning.
by Sam Scott
A Gentleman’s Quarrel
Frederick Law Olmsted and Leland Stanford: Their conflicts, and compromises, led to an iconic campus.
by Daniel Arnold
