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Dear Stanford: Can you see me? I, a Karen refugee, am right in front of you, writes Mu Hsi Hsi.

Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne shares distress, outrage, and urgent resolve regarding Sunday's incident.

In a message to the community, Russell Furr, associate vice provost for environmental health and safety, shares an update on steps the university is taking to help minimize the spread of COVID-19.

Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne welcomes the campus community to spring quarter by highlighting upcoming events, progress on the new school focused on climate and sustainability and university awards that celebrate excellence in our community.

Russell Furr, associate vice provost for environmental health and safety, shares an update and safety reminders as we begin winter quarter amid the spread of the Omicron variant.

In a message to the community, Provost Persis Drell and Associate Vice Provost for Environmental Health & Safety Russell Furr provide an update for students and instructors about the beginning of winter quarter instruction in January.

Provost Persis Drell and Russell Furr, associate vice provost, environmental health & safety, update the Stanford community on protocols for returning to campus following winter break. The university’s approach to supporting a healthy return to campus includes continued masking, enhanced COVID-19 testing, including an additional rapid test upon arrival for some students, and limitations on student parties and some other gatherings for the start of the quarter.

In a letter to the campus community, Stanford Provost Persis Drell discusses the plans under way to prepare for fall quarter.

Dear Stanford community, Love is in the air, so be sure to wear a mask. For far too long Stanford students have relied on marriage pacts and algorithms of the sort to find true love. Well, dear reader, the time has come for that practice to come to an end. Over are the days when you would ask for love advice from friends, RAs or even a stranger. So why not take advice from the one place everyone gets a happily ever after? Disney movies are actual fairy tales and their takes on love and sacrific...

Update on undergraduate planning Provost Persis Drell and Vice Provost for Student Affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole sent the following message to students and their families, which includes steps in the planning process for spring quarter. Dear Stanford students, We hope you are settling well into our winter quarter. These continue to be challenging days, as all of us work through the difficulties posed by the pandemic and the national events that the news brings us each day. We’re grateful for yo...