🌱 How Stanford Live plans to turn campus venues into a true cultural hub
Stanford, California Patch AM: a 4 min readHey there, Stanford! Let's get started with what's happening in and around town. Read on and stay in the loop. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How Stanford Live plans to turn campus venues into a true cultural hub
- How a Stanford historian just earned Harvard’s top alumni honor
- What the Fed’s AI warning at Stanford means for your money
Also on today's calendar: Illusive Comics' 19th Anniversary Event.
Today's riddle: If you have 13 apples in one hand and 10 oranges in the other, what do you have ? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Saturday: Turning sunny and cool, with a high of 71 and low of 50 degrees.
- Sunday: Plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 80, low: 50.
- Monday: Mostly sunny and nice, with a high of 78 and low of 52 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
1. SV Chat: Iris Nemani on stewarding ‘the heart of Stanford's cultural hub' (mercurynews.com) — Stanford Live’s director Iris Nemani shares how she’s shaping the university’s major arts venues, from Bing Concert Hall to Frost Amphitheater and even occasional Stanford Stadium concerts, to better welcome the broader Bay Area. She explains her path from Toronto to The Farm, her vision for student and community engagement, and highlights from the newly announced 2026–27 season featuring rising artists and expanded education programs. 
2. Historian Londa Schiebinger awarded 2026 Centennial Medal (stanforddaily.com) — A Stanford history professor, Londa Schiebinger, has been honored with Harvard’s 2026 Centennial Medal for her decades of work on gender and science. From her base at Stanford, she leads the Gendered Innovations project and teaches a related course, helping reshape how institutions worldwide integrate sex and gender analysis into research and open doors for women in science and engineering.
3. The opportunities and risks AI presents for the economy and financial system (caribbeannewsglobal.com) — A Federal Reserve governor just delivered a major speech at Stanford on how AI is reshaping inflation, jobs, and financial stability, with direct implications for Silicon Valley’s innovation economy. Speaking at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, she outlined why interest rates may stay steady while AI-driven investment, debt, and cyber risks rapidly grow.
4. Stanford Study Exposes Massive Racial Bias in AI Hiring Tools Used by 90 Percent of Businesses (inc.com) — Stanford University researchers have uncovered significant racial bias in widely used AI hiring tools, showing Black and Asian applicants are screened out at much higher rates. Drawing on millions of applications, the study warns that dominant platforms can create an “algorithmic monoculture,” where biased decisions are replicated across many large employers, potentially shutting out qualified candidates nationwide.
5. Stanford quantum computing breakthrough uses twisted light to work without extreme cooling (sciencedaily.com) — Researchers at Stanford University have created a tiny optical device that links spinning photons and electrons at room temperature, potentially slashing the cost and complexity of quantum technologies. Their twisted-light approach could eventually enable more practical quantum communication, sensing, and computing systems, and even lay groundwork for future quantum networks that might one day fit into everyday electronics.
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★ Featured events ★
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Illusive Comics' 19th Anniversary Event →
Illusive Comics & Games, LLC, 5245 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara
11:00 am -
SkeptiCal Conference →
Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St, Oakland
9:00 am
Sunday May 31
Saturday June 27
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Other local events
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CTSA Symposium "AI Across the Translational Spectrum: From Discovery to Community Impact" →
Assembly Hall, Stanford Hospital (third floor), 500 Pasteur Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94304
8:30 am
Friday June 5
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- Stanford University posted a job opening for Associate Director, MBA Career Advising & Education in Stanford. Apply here.
- Geico - Government Employees Insurance Company posted a job opening for Principal Product Manager, Reliability Platform (Observability, SRE, AIM) in Palo Alto. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Stanford here.
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