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  • In Memoriam

Professor Emeritus Wilfred "Will" Healey Stone, 97, died June 11 at his home on the Stanford campus, where he had lived for more than five decades. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1950 after earning his PhD from Harvard University, and served…

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A century and a half after Chinese migrants toiled on the Transcontinental Railroad, an interdisciplinary team of Stanford professors is shedding light on a key chapter of the intertwined relationship between China and the United States. Led…

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  • Undergraduate

The graphic novel American Heathen,which Stanford students researched, wrote and illustrated, focuses on the life and times of a Chinese American man who dedicated much of his life to improving the lives of Chinese immigrants in 19th-century…

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By Erik Fredner

In her latest book of poetry, A Woman Without a Country, English Professor Eavan Boland draws on decades of thinking, reading and writing about subjects like nation and gender to help give voice to those…

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By Marguerite Rigoglioso

 

Digital tools, including a free, public online manuscript training course, are allowing English professor and medieval manuscript scholar Elaine…