Stanford University

He fled Syria's war as a teenager. He went back to help launch a tech industry

1:41pm March 11, 2025

Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's war with his family as a teenager. He recently returned as a Stanford graduate student and a budding entrepreneur, hoping to help jumpstart the country's tech industry.

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Pat Bennett takes part in a research session, using a brain-computer interface that helps translate her thoughts into speech.

Health & Safety

These experimental brain implants can restore speech to paralyzed patients

7:45pm August 23, 2023

by Jon Hamilton

Two studies show how technology is allowing people to generate speech using only their thoughts.

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People walk on the Stanford University campus beneath Hoover Tower in Stanford, Calif., on March 14, 2019. The president of Stanford University Marc Tessier-Lavigne said Wednesday, July 19, 2023, he would resign, citing an independent review that cleared him of research misconduct but found flaws in other papers authored by his lab.

Education

Stanford president resigns after fallout from falsified data in his research

8:17pm July 19, 2023

by Ayana Archie

The board of trustees found that Marc Tessier-Lavigne did not directly have a hand in falsifying data, but that he did not properly oversee members of his lab who did.

People walk on the Stanford University campus beneath Hoover Tower in Stanford, Calif., on March 14, 2019. Stanford University says it is investigating after multiple swastikas and an image of Adolf Hitler were found on a door Saturday at a Stanford student residence hall.

Stanford University investigates swastikas and Hitler image left on student's door

1:08am March 13, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

News of the instance of antisemitism is one of several hate incidents reported on Stanford's campus this academic year.

Students and visitors walk on Stanford University's campus in 2019.

Stanford University apologizes for excluding Jewish students in the 1950s

5:18pm October 13, 2022

by Katia Riddle

Stanford University intentionally excluded Jewish students for years, according to a report put forth by the institution. The university's president issued an extensive apology Wednesday.

Stanford University said it found a noose hanging from a tree outside a residence hall and is investigating the incident as a hate crime. In an email to students and staff, university officials said campus safety authorities immediately "removed the noose

Stanford University investigates a noose found in a campus tree as a hate crime

6:46pm May 10, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The rope used in the incident was allegedly one of several that had been tied to the tree for a performance by a student organization years ago.

Health care workers during a strike in Palo Alto, Calif., on Monday. About 5,000 nurses at Stanford and Packard Children's Hospital began a strike Monday over a fight for what they describe as fair contracts.

Thousands of nurses at Stanford hospitals are striking over wages and mental health

9:32pm April 25, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The labor union representing the nearly 5,000 striking nurses says 93% of staff voted to authorize the strike, which does not have an end date.

Medical residents and fellows protest the university's vaccine allocation process outside Stanford Hospital on Friday morning in Palo Alto, Calif.

Stanford Apologizes After Vaccine Allocation Leaves Out Nearly All Medical Residents

8:16pm December 18, 2020

by Laurel Wamsley

Residents waged a protest on Friday, demanding to know why senior faculty were getting the vaccine before front-line workers who see COVID-19 patients. Stanford has agreed the plan was flawed.

Dr. Scott Atlas, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, speaks at a news conference in September in the briefing room of the White House.

Stanford University Appears To Distance Itself From Scott Atlas After 'Rise Up' Tweet

4:15pm November 17, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

Atlas is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative-leaning think tank based at the university. He's currently on leave while he works as an adviser to President Trump.

Stadiums like the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn., will be empty this year after the Ivy League canceled fall sports because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Sports

College Sports Falling Victim To Coronavirus And Financial Stresses

8:36pm July 08, 2020

by Rachel Treisman

The Ivy League has put all sports on hold until at least January, while Stanford plans to discontinue 11 of its 36 varsity programs after this academic year.