A New York Times blogger, as well as dozens of fans on Stanford's Facebook profile, rave about Tom McFadden's science-infused rap videos.

Tagged: biology, students, On Campus, Humanities & Sciences

Beyond the windowsill, pigeons soar and dive among the ancient, crocketed spires on the nearby roof of Pembroke College at Oxford. But the birds don't distract Stanford junior (now senior) Nicholas "Niko" Reid, who is in serious conference with his Oxford tutor, Rafaela Hillerbrand, in Littlegate House. It is mid-June, and they are halfway through one of those private tête-à-têtes known in Oxbridge parlance as a "tutorial."

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The writers were zesty, accomplished, celebrated, awarded, and, if the term isn't too démodé, hip. So this year's noisy class of incoming freshmen treated them like rock stars, with hoots and howls and deafening applause on the evening of Sept. 17.

Tagged: Arts News, books, students, Arts & Creativity, On Campus, Humanities & Sciences

VIDEO: Speaking at Stanford's 118th Opening Convocation, President John Hennessy urged the 1,704 freshmen and 22 transfer students to become "enthusiastic" members of the academic community.

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A 16-year-old girl spars in the boxing ring. A Catholic nun examines patients in a rural health clinic. A woman looks back on her life as a man. People with disabilities create art with found objects. We see their worlds in student films from Stanford's award-winning graduate program in documentary film and video. With support from the Stanford Arts Initiative, the program is expanding to include an undergraduate major in Film and Media Studies.

Tagged: filmmaking, Stanford Institute for Creativity and Arts, students, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences

A protein crucial to healthy cell growth now appears also to maintain stockpiles of bone marrow stem cells. This finding could lead to better techniques for growing stem cells in culture and for understanding the mechanism of some cancers.

Tagged: cancer, stem cells, students, Human Health, Medicine

While presidential candidates have been debating how the government could fix the U.S. health care system, students at the Graduate School of Business have been exploring how the system might be pushed to change through market forces.

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Graduate students have invented a system that emits sounds from small speakers intended for mounting to the exterior of hybrid vehicles.

Tagged: cars, conservation, students, Environment & Sustainability, Engineering

Jeremy Bailenson, assistant professor of communication, is director of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab. In this video, he demonstrates how an avatar can mimic movement and discusses how this ability can influence interactions in cyberspace.

Tagged: avatars, gaming, psychology, students, Arts & Creativity, Engineering