“If I were to put it in business terms or to leave you with a message,” Oprah Winfrey told a crowd of Graduate School of Business students during a recent campus visit, “the truth is I have from the very beginning listened to my instincts.”
Santa Clara ranks way below Marin, which had highest grad rate at 91.4 percent.
The groundbreaking Athena Academy, on San Antonio Avenue, teaches grades 2 to 6, and plans soon to expand to grade 8.
For students invited to join the Class of 2018, there will be tours of Bing Concert Hall, the Science and Engineering Quad, athletic facilities and Memorial Church, "Cabaret Night: Explore the Arts at Stanford," Q&A with President John Hennessy.
Kathleen Meagher has a lengthy history with Palo Alto schools, and is heading to Virginia.
Stanford Center on Longevity competition challenges students to design products for seniors.
Acceptance, empathy, awareness and identity safety take deeper meanings during a focused week at each secondary school.
Stanford researchers learn to forecast the ultimate popularity of a Facebook photo by watching how fast it is shared.
The new yearlong program will offer career-established participants -- spouses and partners -- access to Stanford's innovative, entrepreneurial and interdisciplinary learning environment.
STANFORD NEWS SERVICE reports on how Stanford's Chris Field spent five years leading a team of international scientists as they prepared a major United Nations report on the state and fate of the world's climate.
More than 42,000 applied. Roughly 2,100 offered admission, university officials said.
BIG win for these kids! More than 2,300 entries submitted nationwide.
Subject of "True Son" film and Stockton councilmember, Michael Tubbs is speaking Saturday night in San Francisco.
The event is free! Come and see the work of our town's talented video and design students!
Get the skinny on the performing-art center and new building updates.
Ohlone, Fairmeadow, Adult School principals, and Jordan assistant principal are retiring in June.
Don't miss Sunday's big goodbye. 49ers Coach Harbaugh, PA mayor and vintage fashions are all on the agenda!
The current superintendent is to resign at the end of the school year.
The Barron Park Elementary School community will come together this weekend at Michaels at Shoreline to celebrate Mardi Gras and raise much needed funds for the wonderful Barron Park students.
New research from Stanford demonstrates the impact of nectar-dwelling microbes on bees' dining preferences. The findings could lead to new insights on agriculture.
The list of 40 finalists was released Thursday.
Vinton Cerf, who helped develop the Internet while at Stanford in the 1970s, will deliver the 2014 Drell Lecture at Stanford on Jan. 22. He is now the vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google.
Students from Santa Clara and three other counties are eligible for monetary prizes and medals.
On Monday the national will observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Stanford history Professor Allyson Hobbs uncovers stories long kept hidden: those of African Americans who passed as white.
Chiney Ogwumike is being recognized for her work off the court.
In ME 203, Design and Engineering, students must learn several manufacturing processes to design and build a final project. Things rarely go as well as planned, which is perfectly fine with Professor David Beach.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist will speak at Stanford University later this month.
A Stanford research project explored the key differences between lives of happiness and meaningfulness. While the two are similar, dramatic differences exist.
Stanford President John Hennessy called the gift “truly historic.”
Madeline Park's poetry book is available on Amazon; proceeds from the sale of the book will benefit the Peninsula Humane Society.
Silicon Valley school raises more than $5,600 to benefit children in rural China.
More than 30 kids entered Yew Chung International School of Silicon Valley's annual decorating contest.