Community Corner
🌱 Inside the Stanford MBA course VC insiders scramble to guest-teach.
Spotted on the Stanford calendar: Redwood City Library Foundation's 5th Annual Upscale Pub Crawl
Coffee in hand, Stanford? We've got the latest town updates for you. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- Inside the Stanford MBA course VC insiders scramble to guest-teach.
- How a Stanford scientist's light-based brain tool just won a Nobel.
Also on today's calendar: Redwood City Library Foundation's 5th Annual Upscale Pub Crawl and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: Why do Norway's navy ships all have barcodes? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Tuesday: Sunny and toasty conditions, with a high of 94 and low of 59 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Wednesday: Hot with plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 92, low: 53.
- Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 85 and low of 55 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Teaching a Stanford Class with HBS DNA (hbs.edu) — For 35 years, venture capitalist Pete Wendell has taught an oversubscribed Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital elective in Stanford's MBA program, modeled on his Harvard Business School experience. The course brings Silicon Valley founders and investors like Eric Schmidt and Evan Spiegel into the classroom, aiming to give Stanford students practical, case-based insight into launching and funding startups. 
• California scientist wins Nobel Prize for groundbreaking brain research (usatoday.com) — Stanford neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for pioneering optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control specific brain cells. His work, shared with two German collaborators, is transforming how scientists study complex conditions like severe depression and Alzheimer's disease, bringing global recognition to research rooted at Stanford.
📸 Around Stanford
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Stanford
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★ Featured events ★
- Redwood City Library Foundation's 5th Annual Upscale Pub Crawl →
Redwood City Public Library, 1044 Middlefield Rd, Redwood City
5:00 pm
Wednesday October 7
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Other local events
- Bilingual Family Storytime
College Terrace Library, 2300 Wellesley Street, Palo Alto
10:30 am - Family Storytime
Downtown Branch Library, 270 Forest Avenue, Palo Alto
10:30 am - LEGO Fridays!
College Terrace Library, 2300 Wellesley Street, Palo Alto
4:00 pm - AI Innovations & Venture Capital Program at Stanford University + Silicon V →
Stanford University, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford - External Event: FOPAL Book Sale
College Terrace Library, 2300 Wellesley Street, Palo Alto
9:30 am - The Rhinoceros Project Sewing Circles
Downtown Branch Library, 270 Forest Avenue, Palo Alto
10:00 am - LOCATION CHANGE: Meditation with Sara
Downtown Branch Library, 270 Forest Avenue, Palo Alto
10:15 am - Charlie and The Tropicales Family Concert →
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 471 Lagunita Dr, Stanford
11:00 am - Bing Nursery School Performance Series: Charlie and the Tropicales →
471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford
11:00 am - External Event: FOPAL Book Sale
College Terrace Library, 2300 Wellesley Street, Palo Alto
1:00 pm - CLOSED: Indigenous Peoples' Day
Downtown Branch Library, 270 Forest Avenue, Palo Alto
Thursday October 8
Friday October 9
Saturday October 10
Sunday October 11
Monday October 12
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- CorePower Yoga posted a job opening for Yoga Teacher - Palo Alto - Town & Country in Palo Alto. Apply here.
- Menlo Circus Club posted a job opening for Women's Locker Room Attendant [Female Candidates] in Atherton. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Stanford here.
🗞 Nearby News
Palo Alto
- Senior Software Engineer - Accounting & Ledger Systems - BitGo - Palo Alto, CA, US (dice.com)
- Prostate Cancer Care: A Nurse's Guide to Screening and Treatment (renalandurologynews.com)
- CScale Raises $145M for Resilient Optical AI Scale-Up Interconnect (convergedigest.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why do Norway's navy ships all have barcodes?" — So when they come back to port they can just scan-da-navi-an! (Thank you Jessica C. for sending it in!)
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