The event serves to boost and empower talented student artists at the Palo Alto high school.
The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford brought together leaders in business and academia to talk about the role of compassion in business.
The new material's artificial "atoms" are designed to work with a broad range of light frequencies. With adjustments, the researchers believe it could lead to perfect microscope lenses or invisibility cloaks.
Construction of the Anderson Gallery will affect all forms of transit on the campus thoroughfare through December 2014.
The magazine's 2013 rankings came out Monday. Gunn High School also made the list.
Stanford researchers investigate the encounters of men and women during four-minute speed dates to find out what makes couples feel connected.
The global emergence of similar practices around 23,000 years ago hints that agriculture evolved independently around the world, perhaps as a response to climate change.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke to reporters at the Education Writers Association seminar at Stanford; he addressed diversity in classrooms, online education and the Obama administration's preschool plan.
The San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Architects and PG&E awarded the citation, recognizing the sharp reductions in energy attained by design of the new building. A LEED-certified Platinum rating is on track.
William J. Perry, a senior fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, spoke about his efforts to reduce the arsenal of nuclear weapons around the globe to fellows at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Scie
Through an examination of art, language and literature, Stanford humanities professors reveal how the Occupy movement left its mark on activism, art and language.
Seven Stanford professors have been elected as members of the 2013 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Stanford Summer Theater and the Center for Ethics in Society partner to produce The Exception and the Rule, a Bertolt Brecht 'learning play' that explores themes of inequality and corruption.
You don't have to wait until senior ball night 2013 to share those awesome pics. Share the fun of picking out that dress, snagging those designer shoes or picking out that really retro suit from Goodwill!
Despite their prestige as top schools in the state and nation, Palo Alto's high schools don't do enough to help their disadvantaged students make the grade.
Eleven high schools in total along the Peninsula made the rankings of most challenging high schools in the country.
Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, explains the findings of a new paper that reviews the data on Advanced Placement courses and offers suggestions to students and parents.
Cupertino, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Mountain View and Saratoga have schools listed, but the #1 California-rated high school is in Santa Cruz, according to the latest US News and World Report survey.
The project that will be the university's entry in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon available for public viewing on April 22.
The students wiped-out competition from across Northern California.
Associate professor of English Adam Johnson is honored for his best-selling novel, "The Orphan Master's Son."
Andrew Fraknoi chosen by the National Science Teachers Association for inspiring public interest in science.
Once dull walls are now splashed with color, transforming the learning environment of children.
Through a digital analysis of correspondence from travelers on the famed European "Grand Tour," Stanford classicist Giovanna Ceserani is discovering how international travel fostered cultural and academic trends in the 18th century.
Plenty of parents solve the car pool issue by handing their kid a bike helmet.
The panel could vastly improve the daylight cooling of buildings, cars and other structures by radiating sunlight back into the chilly vacuum of space.
Teaching students how to argue based on available evidence engages them in the scientific process and provides a better idea of how science actually works. The challenge is training teachers. Learn more.
The process ushers in a new era of whole-organ imaging that will transform understanding of the brain.
Ocean research reveals rapid evolutionary adaptations to a changing climate. Genetic variation is the key to this ability to deal with higher acidity.
The dropout rate increased at both Palo Alto and Gunn high schools during the 2011-2012 school year.
The former Secretary of State says failing schools undermine economic growth, competitiveness, social cohesion and the ability to fill positions in institutions vital to national security.
The work is being done in collaboration with Harvard and MIT.
The construction of the photovoltaic power industry since 2000 has required an enormous amount of energy, mostly from fossil fuels. But Stanford researchers have some good news.
The tickets will be sold at the Stanford Ticket Office.
A team of Stanford University bioengineers has taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics and into the living realm of biology.
The University has offered admission to 2,210 applicants.
The solar-powered Start.Home, designed and built by Stanford students, is having its housewarming on April 22.
As new MOOCs are made available to the world at large, professors innovate on campus to make Stanford-only courses more exciting and effective.
"When placed where the sunlight is focused, our PETE chips produce electricity directly; and the hotter it is, the more electricity it will make."
Researchers will seek early signs of a cancer with a mortality rate as high as 35 percent.