Stanford student theater group, At the Fountain Theatricals, recently performed the cabaret "Did We Offend You?" in place of the originally scheduled play "Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson," which was cancelled due to student protest. 

Arthur Barnes, professor (performance) emeritus of music at Stanford, receives an Arts and Culture Award.

Clayborne Carson, professor of history and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, hopes that all the preparation for violence following the grand jury decision in the case of Darren Wilson, won’t turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A new book by John Figdor, humanist chaplain for Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics (AHA) at Stanford, and alumnus Lex Bayer, offers a philosophical roadmap to essential beliefs for nonbelievers.

Stanford and Warner Music Group recently announced a project to identify student talent across a range of disciplines who could be future leaders in the music business; Matthew Tiews, executive director of arts programs, will chair the selection committee.

Abraham Sofaer, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; Scott Sagan, professor of political science and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; and Norman Naimark, professor of history and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution participated in a...

Richard White, professor of history, talks about how John Muir's late-19th-century, Anglo-Saxon brand of environmentalism and bias toward untouched wilderness skewed the way nature has been portrayed in popular culture.

Robert Proctor, professor of history, is mentioned for his recent book on the history of smoking, "Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition."

Jeff Chang, the executive director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, has recently published a book about the cultural history of race in American popular culture.

Robert Harrison, professor of French and Italian, discusses his new book "Juvenescence," on how Western society is increasingly populated by those who refuse to grow up.

Anna Schultz, assistant professor of music, talks about the potential cultural loss threatening the Bene Israel Jews, believed to be the largest Jewish community in India.