Teaching and Students

Graduates honored with 2009 Golden, Firestone medals, and Kennedy prizes

Graduating students last week were awarded medals for honors projects and prizes for outstanding honors theses.


Thirty-seven graduate students chosen for teaching assistant awards

The awards acknowledge and celebrate the important role that teaching assistants play at Stanford.


Stanford to participate in tuition program for veterans

Stanford is committed to providing benefits for up to 50 students through the GI Bill's Yellow Ribbon Program.


Ruth W. Messinger

Ruth Messinger exhorts students to be strong, bold, courageous

The Jewish leader urges students to "hone your political will and your moral determination" during Stanford's baccalaureate address.


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Acclaimed 'Three Books' authors explore how the past affects the present

Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers and Abraham Verghese's My Own Country will been sent to incoming students this summer, with a talk by the authors planned in September.


Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities announces 2009 grants

Stanford honors innovation in humanities with three new grants.


2009 Cuthbertson, Dinkelspiel, Gores awards honor faculty, students and staff

Three professors, an economics lecturer, four students and two staff members will be recognized during Commencement Weekend with 2009 university awards.


Hooked on books: Stanford students get awards for their essays on collecting

Stanford students with a book obsession get Wreden Prize for their collections.


Stanford Students provide dairy goats for impoverished communities

By selling photo opportunities with a goat on White Plaza, members of the InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship raised $6,600 to purchase 84 dairy goats for families in poor areas


Nominations sought for awards for exceptional freshmen in the Class of 2012

Wanted: Nominations for President's Awards for Academic Excellence in the Freshman Year.


Garth Saloner

Economist Garth Saloner to head Stanford's Graduate School of Business

Saloner, who joined the Stanford faculty in 1990, is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Electronic Commerce, Strategic Management, and Economics, and a director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Graduate School of Business.


Alex Aybes

A million downloads: Free Stanford course on creating iPhone apps takes off at a furious pace

For budding entrepreneurs, Stanford offers a free online course on a hot topic: how to write programs for the iPhone and the iPod touch.


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New website offers links to Stanford's global research

The Global Gateway will make information about Stanford's international scholarship easily available.


Stanford's online high school adds grades seven, eight and nine

The EPGY Online High School (OHS) will add the seventh, eighth and ninth grades for fall 2009.


Stanford prepares to implement its pandemic plan if needed

World Health Organization says pandemic is imminent; university officials meet daily