Lawrence Friedman, Stanford professor of law talks about his long-standing hobby—writing "The Frank May Chronicles" mystery series.

MarYam G. Hamedani, associate director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, argues that talking about social class helps first-generation and low-income students to succeed in college.

NoViolet Bulawayo, a Wallace Stegner Fellow, is this year’s winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for “We Need New Names."

Professors Jennifer Summit and Nicholas Jenkins discuss two new joint-major programs at Stanford that will allow students to study either English and computer science or music and computer science. 

Stanford scholar Estelle Freedman discusses why International Women’s Day tends not to be celebrated in the United States.

Damon Horowitz, Google’s in-house philosopher, earned his PhD in philosophy at Stanford. As Horowitz demonstrates, degrees like his are valuable in the tech sector where some of the most successful tech entrepreneurs and innovators come from a philosophy background.

Matthew Tiews, executive director of arts programs at Stanford, comments on the engaging quality of the new Anderson Collection set to open this fall.

Josh Groban and Jason Mraz are just two of the famous musicians who will help students unlock their creative potential in a new online course at Stanford called "Creativity: Music to My Ears."

The story quotes Franco Moretti, professor of comparative literature and of English, and director of the Stanford Literary Lab, on world literature as a “problem,” rather than an “object”; his book “Distant Reading” is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism. 

The article quotes Blas Cabrera, professor of physics, on the use of ancient Roman lead in sensitive experiments searching for dark matter and other rare particles.