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Gift bolsters opportunities for undergraduates
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A gift from Kelsey (Bateman) Murphy, ’10, and Bobby Murphy, ’10, creates an endowed directorship for the First-Generation and/or Low-Income Student Success Center and expands undergraduate research and scholarship opportunities.
Memoirs feature in Three Books program
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New undergraduates are reading Andre Agassi’s autobiography, Open, and On Juneteenth, by historian Annette Gordon-Reed. The third selection will be announced later in the academic year.
A living lab for wildfire management
Stanford's Wildfire Resilience Program is a multi-department effort focused on land stewardship, fire fuel reduction, and cooperation with local agencies to enhance regional wildfire resilience. The program supports the protection of native ecosystems, field research opportunities, and piloting innovative technologies, including BurnBot, a machine that creates fire fuel breaks.
Every generation thinks it is in terminal decline. Because we are inherently social creatures we will figure out new norms.”
Francis Fukuyama, senior fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), on evolving cultural values in America and their role in national politics