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Available now on YouTube: Stanford, Women Faculty, Feminist Research and Teaching: Some Historical Reflections.

Stanford, Women Faculty, Feminist Research and Teaching: Some Historical Reflections March 7, 2024Presenters: Nannerl O. Keohane, Myra StroberModerator: Margo HornAt its founding in 1891, Stanford was one of a very few private co-educational ...

For Whom the Band Played Art Barnes was instrumental in transforming LSJUMB into the world’s largest rock ’n’ roll band.

On this day in 1903, Stanford’s Memorial Church was dedicated. It was one of the earliest, and is still among the most prominent, churches in the West.

“We begin anew today no less an experiment than this: to test whether a non-sectarian church can minister to the spiritual needs of a great university,” the Rev. Charles Gardner said. “It has been built in love; not to teach a theological system, not to develop a sectarian principle, but to minister to the higher life.”

Learn more about the university’s architectural crown jewel: https://orsl.stanford.edu/memorial-church-companion-spaces

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Oral History Program Manager Natalie Marine-Street with interviewee

Drum majors past and present celebrating 60th anniversary of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band. Stanford Alumni Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band Stanford University

Inspiring story of 'the Mexican shortstop from Salinas' who's now Stanford's head baseball coach In the fall of 1983, David Esquer stepped onto the diamond at Stanford University with a clear goal: to make the team. Decades later, he is now the Cardinals' head coach.

SHS is at Reunion Homecoming. Welcome back, Stanford alumni and families! Stanford Alumni

Watch Now: George Shultz--Citizen of Stanford

George Shultz--Citizen of Stanford May 3, 2023George Shultz’s service as an American leader at the highest levels is well known. But few people know in detail about his decades at Stanford.In...

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Who Put the "X" in Bio-X?

Who Put the "X" in Bio X? Listen to three Stanford professors tell the story of how Bio-X, Stanford's pioneering interdisciplinary biosciences institute, got its name.