STAN – Society, Technology, Art and Nature –
featured
inspiring Stanford speakers and performers in an intimate setting.

Stanford alum Kayla Carpenter hopes to help revitalize the dying
language
of her Hupa people, members of the Hoopa Valley tribe.

Stanford Ethics and War Symposium features essays and poetry by
two Iraq
War veterans.

New Yorker staff writer George Packer wrote Betrayed after
interviewing three-dozen Iraqi translators.

The Bibilotech Conference articulated a clear challenge: What can
humanities PhDs offer the world outside academia?

Quotes Wanda M. Corn, professor emerita of art history

The task forceis exploring the idea of establishing a "Big
Ideas"
course for freshmen, integrating general education requirements
across
all four years and requiring first-year students to take freshman
seminars.

Silicon Valley business leaders and Stanford humanities scholars
convened
on Wednesday for BiblioTech, a conference looking to strengthen ties
between the two groups.

Speakers at Stanford's BiblioTech conference on how
humanities
scholars can play a role in Silicon Valley

In a Q&A, Stanford historian Richard White talks about
where a
high-speed rail system can and should work.

All high school students should be fluent in a language other than
English, so says Russell Berman, president of the Modern Language
Association.

Gerhard Trimpin's "The Gurs Zyklus" was
commissioned by
Stanford Lively Arts. Quotes Jenny Bilfield, artistic and executive
director of Stanford Lively Arts.

In an interactive National Humanities Center forum, Associate
Professor
of English Paula Moya addresses the importance of studying how
culture
shapes human cognition, motivation, and emotion.