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The Moment: November 2024
In this issue
’Tis the season for reading phone books, actuarial tables—anything but political news. Thus The Moment spent a recent afternoon tranquilly immersed in historic dispatches from Stanford’s phenomenal graduate programs. As we marveled at yet another Nobel Prize-Winning Two-Time MacArthur Genius Who Also Won a Turing Award and a Grammy, a thought materialized: What’s new with our undergrads?
Quite a lot, turns out.
Welcome to our Undergraduate Issue! We sent a troop of writers, photographers, and filmmakers out into the undergrad galaxy and they returned with striking stories—about a side of our Athletics program seldom glimpsed, about a cadre of rising sophomores spending eight profound weeks together, about new efforts to promote constructive dialogues on campus, about a life-changing list scrawled one lonesome night on printer paper.
Read on! (And look! Have you encountered the words “popular vote” once?)
Season of change
For first-generation, low-income students, the playing field is far from level. One of Stanford’s most innovative responses: a summer residential program combining research, coursework, and experiential opportunities to foster early academic success, confidence, and belonging.
Season of change
Watch three students through the programFor first-generation, low-income students, the playing field is far from level. One of Stanford’s most innovative responses: a summer residential program combining research, coursework, and experiential opportunities to foster early academic success, confidence, and belonging.
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Ethan’s code
See this sophomore remake his worldFeeling adrift and disconnected from purpose one night, a high school student set out to map his future. He had no idea what would come of it.
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Team behind the teams
Take the interactive tourOur student-athletes represent merely the visible—and, yeah, the most thrilling—part of the Cardinal universe. Come learn about the multi-talented squad we seldom see, lending support with nutrition, training, mental fitness, and more.
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Let’s agree (on how) to disagree
Read the latest on constructive discourseStanford, of course, is no exception to the ideological tussles sweeping the country. But there’s a science to navigating conflict more effectively, and undergrads are learning about it this year. (If only they’d explain it to the rest of us.)
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