Announcements

Provost Persis Drell has appointed a committee of faculty, students and staff to make recommendations on the next campus climate survey to be administered to students.

On Jan. 25, L.A. Dance Project’s David Adrian Freeland Jr. taught a master class for students at Roble Gym. Stanford Live sponsored the class and presented the company at Memorial Auditorium on Jan. 26 and 27. After a warmup based in Horton technique, the dancers moved across the floor with small jumps. Freeland taught a new movement sequence and encouraged dancers to find their own style of execution. After the class, Freeland answered questions about working with dance and film, and how to engage more women choreographers.

White papers summarizing more than 2,800 long-range planning ideas for Stanford are about to be released to the campus community. Faculty co-chairs of the Education and Research steering groups discuss how they reviewed the ideas in their respective areas and what they learned.

The Emmy, Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe winning Stanford alumnus will deliver the 127th Commencement address.

We’re excited to have reached today a new milestone in Stanford’s long-range planning process: the release to the campus community of 37 white papers that summarize more than 2,800 ideas we received for guiding Stanford’s future.

President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell updated the Stanford community on the long-range planning process and talked about a swath of some of the university’s most pressing issues, from sexual violence and free speech to faculty diversity and the state of federal research funding, during an informal meeting Wednesday afternoon.

As we mourn today the loss of our colleague and dear friend Ben Barres, I thought it would be fitting to share a piece that I wrote in tribute to Ben almost a year ago. I was honored to deliver it as an introduction to a symposium held in Ben’s honor on January 12, 2017.

A new Stanford initiative, Cardinal Conversations, creates a forum for the Stanford community to explore a diversity of ideas on challenging issues with leading thinkers and public intellectuals from campus and beyond.

Elizabeth Hadly, professor of biology and faculty director of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, chairs the Faculty Senate, which is celebrating its 50th year at Stanford as it tackles such issues as student well-being, diversity, sustainability, free speech and long-range planning.

We write to denounce in strongest possible terms the recent incursion of hateful speech into our campus community.

Joint statement by Susie Brubaker-Cole, vice provost for student affairs and Jane Shaw, dean for religious life.