The Foreseeable Future

Making predictions about 2021 seems downright foolhardy. We did it anyway.

John McWhorter is best known as a cultural critic who garners bouquets and brickbats from left and right alike. But he’s really a linguistics geek at heart.

What a sea cucumber taught me about survival.

Stanford people in the news and on the move.

Diving into microscopic marine mysteries.

A bilingual newspaper chronicles the Mission District’s transformations.

Stately and venerable, this oak tree witnessed antics that were anything but.

A curious set of species shares the Stanford moniker.

Five swabs a day keeps COVID away, and other tales from the league’s unprecedented epidemiological experiment.

Explorer Victor Vescovo’s deep ocean dives.

We could never have predicted 2020. But that’s not stopping us from taking a run at 2021.

Stanford’s international students and scholars enrich our campus and broaden our impact.

New releases that inspire us.

New and Notable

New graduate residence opens.

Mark Mancall

Sanjiv “Sam” Gambhir