Willow Oaks Middle School's "Willow Oaks Sings"
choir from
Menlo Park participated in a musical exchange with the Stanford
Chamber
Chorale at the Braun Music Center on March 15th.
Michael Bratman, Professor of Philosophy, gave a lecture at the
University of Delaware's David Norton Memorial Lecture on
March
15th. Professor Bratman used an example of a busy Manhattan street
to demonstrate the human ability to plan - the focus of his lecture.
Orrin W Robinson III, a professor of German Studies at Stanford
corrected
the common peception that the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
travelled
around Germanic principalities in the early 19th Century.
Jesse Rodin, Assistant Professor of Music is a recipient of a 2012
Digital Innovation Fellowship with the American Council of Learned
Societies. Rodin's Josquin Research Project will develop new
tools
for making Renaissance music searchable.
In the "LA Review of Books," French literature
professor Cécile
Alduy, says the new novel by controversial and award-winning French
author, Michel Houellebecq "captures with perfect irony the
tone
and texture of twenty-first-century discourse.
Robert Munro, a graduate fellow at Stanford, will examine
differences in
how people express place, distance and space among the world's
500-plus languages at Where Conference 2012: The Art and Business
of Location.
Stanford assistant professor and music app developer, Ge Wan and
his
company, Smule, develop social music-making apps for the iPad and
iPhone
that allow users to simultaneously play duets with other iOS
musicians
anywhere across the globe...
A papyri digitization project leads Stanford's associate
curator of
paleological materials to consider the challenges of posting the
entire
legacy of ancient and medieval Western written culture online.
