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Before the tipping point
As oceans warm and ecosystems shift, Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station is helping detect trouble early—and prevent collapse before it begins.
This is our moment
Every day, Stanford tackles the world’s most pressing challenges. Momentum tells the stories of that work, and how philanthropy helps make it possible.
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He hated pigeon peas. Now they could help feed Puerto Rico.
A Stanford alum is betting on a humble legume to help rebuild the island’s fragile food system—starting in backyard farms.
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Engineering the overlooked
As a Stanford undergraduate, William Tarpeh learned to spot problems others ignore. Financial aid gave him a path forward—all the way to a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Makers. Doers. Boundary pushers.
The Stanford community overflows with curious people unafraid to try, change, and try again. Meet some of them.
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Sofia Williams, ’28
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Kory’ien “Boomer” Taylen, ’26
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Inside the Nerdball revolution
With a spreadsheet as his compass, Coach Kyle Smith is rebuilding Stanford basketball through quantifiable toughness—and the players are embracing it.
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Cracking autoimmunity’s toughest cases
David Fiorentino’s pursuit of hidden patterns in autoimmune disease is transforming patient care—and may lead to new strategies for cancer prevention. (A little help from his old Stanford pals didn’t hurt.)
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Talent is everywhere. Access? Less so.
As a high school student, taking a year of college courses transformed Lerone Martin’s sense of what was possible. As a Stanford professor, he’s now offering that same experience to students too often excluded from elite higher education.
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Video: Into the future
Fifty years ago, two Stanford frosh went on a date that would change the course of their lives. Today, the grateful couple has found a way to change other lives, too.
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Undoing injustice
Stanford Law School’s Three Strikes Project began as a challenge to draconian sentences. What followed is a national movement in criminal justice reform.
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Scrappy and Proud
The student-run On Call Café aspires to more than latte art. Come for the caffeine, stay for the much-needed connection.
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The name, image, and likeness of the game
New rules for paying student-athletes are changing college sports and the role of philanthropy.
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A mistake, a hunch—and a breakthrough
How a research setback led to a discovery that just might transform lives.
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True change will require all of us.
One changemaker is admirable. A community of changemakers is unstoppable. There is nothing we can do that we cannot do better …
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