The story notes that Mark Applebaum, associate professor of composition and theory, will open this year’s Other Minds music festival in San Francisco.

Written by Melina Platas Izama, doctorate student in political science, the blog entry addresses the emerging trend of morality politics in Africa and beyond, including, though not limited to, criminalizing homosexuality. 

The story quotes Richard White, professor of history, on Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta residents. It also mentions David Kennedy, professor emeritus of history. 

The story notes that Stanford and the Bibliothèque nationale de France have partnered together to digitize thousands of images and a massive trove of historical documents related to the French Revolution.

The story notes that Stanford and Warner Music Group have teamed up to offer a new online course in creative problem solving, which will feature appearances from Warner Music's artists; it quotes Tina Seelig, executive director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, who will teach the class.

The story cites Russell Berman, professor of German and of comparative literature, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and former president of the Modern Language Association, on graduate education.

Stanford German Studies Professor Elaine Treharne condensed 'Beowulf' into a hundred 140 character tweets.

This story quotes Clayborne Carson, professor of history and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, on commemorating all the civil rights activists before, during and after 1964’s “Freedom Summer.” 

 Allyson Hobbs, assistant professor of history at Stanford, discusses the history of racial passing in America.