The papers of William H. Rehnquist, who served as the country's chief justice from 1986 until his death in 2005, have been donated to the Hoover Institution Archives.

Tagged: Hoover Institution, Supreme Court, On Campus

As patients and their families enter the lobby of the planned new Stanford Hospital, they may well feel they're stepping into a documentary touting the state's abundance of year-round, healing sunshine. Ahead of them, water will cascade gently down sculptured steps that slope from the second floor into a central courtyard suffused with natural light. Families will be able to dine together and even stay overnight together—in spacious and private rooms on the floors above.

Tagged: Stanford Hospital, On Campus, Medicine

At Jasper Ridge, natural scientists, archaeologists, computer scientists and even a few historians can be found hiking trails and sometimes tramping through the brush, setting cameras, scribbling in notebooks, squinting at computers. It's a place where scholars and scientists can wander in every sense of the word, where students from many schools and departments (and not just from Stanford) take classes, do fieldwork, complete theses and dissertations and make a difference.

Tagged: On Campus, Humanities & Sciences

A new name has been selected for the laboratory formerly known as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and portions of it have a familiar ring. The official title now is the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Tagged: SLAC, On Campus

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."

Tagged: students, On Campus, Humanities & Sciences

Senator Barbara Boxer took a tour of the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building on October 6th, and discussed her support for environmental initiatives.

 

Tagged: Y2E2, On Campus, Earth Sciences, Engineering

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: Tom Brokaw of NBC's Meet the Press moderated the third annual Roundtable at Stanford, "Wanted: Courage, Compassion and Character-Leadership for the 21st Century," on Saturday in Maples Pavilion.

Tagged: International Issues, On Campus

A new study details Stanford's substantial contribution to the Silicon Valley economy and beyond.

Tagged: On Campus

Jen-Hsun Huang, the founder and chief executive officer of leading visual computing company NVIDIA and a Stanford electrical engineering alumnus, will donate $30 million to help build a modern and sustainable destination for education and research, the Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center.

Tagged: On Campus, Engineering