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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
