Announcements

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.

Mona Hicks recently stepped into the role of senior associate vice provost and dean of students. She shares why she joined Stanford, the biggest challenges facing student affairs and her approach to helping students in distress.

Philanthropic funding will cover both tuition and living expenses for students who qualify for aid, eliminating the need for medical school loans.

The longtime assistant dean for minority affairs has retired after decades of recruiting students from under-represented groups to Stanford School of Medicine.

The papers of Mexican-American artist and poet Jose Antonio Burciaga are preserved in the university's special collections. Between the 1970s and 1990s, the author/artist was part of a movement of Mexican-American artists and intellectuals who actively engaged in conceptualizing and re-conceptualizing what constituted Mexican-American thought and culture.

An update on efforts to confront racial bias
Dear Stanford students,

As the end of fall quarter approaches, with the winter break close behind, we want to provide an update on issues that have been on many of our minds in recent weeks.

An important subject at Stanford this fall has been the need to confront and vigorously address incidents of racial bias and racially motivated attacks on others. There have been several of these incidents, affecting members of different communities.

Among those credited with leading and sustaining the effort proposed by Native American students to rename landmarks honoring Junipero Serra is Carson Smith, now a graduate student at Oxford. She reflects on lessons learned about ameliorating the pain inflicted by California’s mission system.

Gerald Vizenor, an award-winning author and citizen of the White Earth Nation, will be in residence at Stanford during winter quarter as the Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor.