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Construction is underway to transform Building 80 into the home of the new Department of African and African American Studies. The space will open in fall 2025.
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First-year student Serena Young conducts sociological observations in Stanford’s White Plaza to see how the plaza and pavilion are used by community members. Her observations and interviews, and those of other volunteers, will go toward a larger assessment of Stanford’s public spaces.
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Photographer LiPo Ching captures a rainbow on a winter day at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Ching produced stunning images of the preserve for a photo story about seasonal change at this unique H&S education and research site.
Photo by Dan Quinn, JRBP docent
Vanessa Barone [seated right], assistant professor of biology in H&S, meets with members of two lab teams in the collaboration space of the newly opened Molecular and Cellular Biodiversity Imaging Center at Hopkins Marine Station.
Photo by LiPo Ching/Stanford University
History student Christian Robles-Baez explores part of the digital collection at Stanford's David Rumsey Map Center during a tour organized by the Department of History to familiarize its students with the center's resources.
Photo by LiPo Ching/Stanford University.