Stanford composer, Jonathan Berger, professor of music, explores
auditory hallucinations in two new chamber operas that will be
performed at Bing Concert Hall.

Londa Schiebinger, professor of history, writes about Stanford's
Gendered Innovations project.

Throughout 2012-2013, Stanford faculty and graduate students have been offering a series of eight team-taught courses that will help prepare grads for careers as liberal arts educators.

Stanford professor emeritus of applied physics Peter Sturrock has
decided
to lend some scientific credence to the Shakespeare authorship
debate in
the form of his new book, AKA Shakespeare: A Scientific
Approach to the Authorship Question.

As Ruth Starkman writes in the Huffington Post, the research of
Stanford prof. David Palumbo-Liu illustrates how literature offers
a corrective to the steely logic of global markets as it
"helps articulate the changing nature between self and
other."

According to the research of Stanford Professor Li Liu, it took up
to 12,000 years for people in what is now China to go from eating
wild
plants to farming them.

A critique of the anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that features quotes
from
Henry Lowood, current Curator for History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University
Libraries.

An article on higher education options that mentions Stanford's recent efforts to reduce the time to
completion
for a humanties PhD.

An opinion piece on the departure of Benedict XVI by Thomas Sheehan, Stanford professor of religious studies.

The film, about the dilemma Gen. Douglas MacArthur faced regarding Emperor Hirohito at the end of World War
II,
delves into a painful history, some of which the film's producers uncovered while conducting research
at Stanford University library (which houses the letters and diaries of American general...

An obituary celebrating the life of Joseph Frank, a writer and
Stanford
Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Why has Europe and America dominated the human advances in the last few years, and is China poised to take
over?These are just some of the questions that Stanford Classics Professor Ian Morris discusses in this
blog post and his new book, The Measure of Civilization.