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Graduating senior Dana Chiueh reflects on her Stanford experience. She weighs the challenges, blessings and contradictions of making a home here.

Menlo Park school board officials say the $2.5 million endowment slated to cover the costs of extra students from Stanfords new Middle Plaza housing project wont be enough.

​​As Santa Clara County prepares to adopt a new plan to govern Stanford Universitys growth, Palo Alto officials are pushing for more housing, expanded shuttle services and a seat at the table in the coming negotiations.

2 hours ago I entered Stanford University in the fall of 1966, majoring in Physics and looking forward to a career in the emerging computer industry. I had read how the Stanford Provost, Frederick Emmons Terman, Jr., had pioneered the concept of a “Community of Technical Scholars,” combining campus brainpower with local industry to create what later became known as Silicon Valley.  Unfortunately, the narrative failed to mention a third partner, the U.S. Department of Defense. Stanford’s ...