Announcements

The deadline for submitting essays, prose, poetry, photographs, original artwork, video essay and short documentaries to the Special Issue is Aug. 1.

Stanford is working to assess and respond to new rules that were announced today by the federal government affecting international students studying this fall on F-1 visas.

In an email to the university community, President Marc Tessier-Lavigne outlines initiatives Stanford will be undertaking to address racial inequity and anti-Black racism.

Stanford honors student, professor and the Leadership Education in Advancing Diversity Program with 2020 President’s Awards for Excellence Through Diversity. The award recognizes and honors individuals and programs that have made exceptional contributions to enhancing and supporting diversity within the Stanford community.

Stanford junior Caroline Pecos-Duarte, ’21, is the recipient of the Udall Scholarship, which will support her pursuit of a career as a physician serving Native American communities.

Stanford University Press emphatically supports the statement of equity and anti-racism made by our trade group the Association of University Presses:

Historian Ana Raquel Minian has been named a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.

President Marc Tessier-Lavigne will appoint a committee to review requests that question views and practices of the university’s founding president and his mentor.

Andrea Goldsmith becomes first woman to win the Marconi Prize, shattering a glass ceiling in the field of telecommunications. The Stanford professor and inventor has been awarded the top honor in information and communications research, and has gifted back her $100,000 honorarium to start an endowment to fund technology and diversity initiatives.

The Stanford Blood Center urges those who are healthy, and who haven’t traveled to high-risk countries or been in contact with someone who has COVID-19, to donate blood.