Maria Papworth began diving at eight years old in Croydon, England. At 14, she entered the world stage in the three-meter springboard representing Great Britain – a diving powerhouse that produced international legends like Tom Daley and Matty Lee. She pushed her body for years, enduring injury and pain, and found her Olympic dreams within […]
As a Chinese international student who has been studying and living in the United States since high school, I consider myself an ambassador bridging the two cultures. I am always interested in exploring how some traditional Chinese cultural practices are being practiced here in the United States. During my last quarter at Stanford University, I
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Ava Cuevas often felt excluded in her high school cafeteria. Not because she sat alone, but because, as her friends filled their trays with slices of pizza and scoops of buttery mashed potatoes, she was left with a decidedly less appealing—and less filling—set of choices. A fruit and a vegetable. Or a lactose-induced stomachache. Always paired with a side of feeling like an afterthought. Despite being one of the only vegans in her
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A weary-looking Planet Earth stared at me from the screen of a classroom in Stanford’s Huang Engineering building on a recent Sunday morning. Her face, featuring mascara-lashed eyes and plumped lips, expressed utter exhaustion. Above her, scrawled in loose cursive lettering, read “mother is tired.” It was visually and emotionally arresting. It was deeply unserious, yet gravely
On a Zoom call with roughly 300 climate-focused attendees, Shannon Fiume made the type of claim that has people stop what they are doing and pay close attention. She laid out her arguments during an SF Climate Week event that sparked questions, comments, and debate. Her main claim was bold: the world could potentially reach net zero by 2037 or 2038. Fiume, a climate modeler and entrepreneur, was speaking during
Students dressed in white, dancing, laughing, and tossing colors at Sand Hill Fields on the afternoon of May 9th to celebrate the annual Indian Holi festival. The celebration, organized by Asha for Education—a nonprofit organization at Stanford University—was to raise money for the underprivileged education in India. More than $80,000 will be sent to
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BOZEMAN — Last month, over 150 affiliates of Montana State, visitors from Stanford University, and community members from across Montana crowded into Strand Union Building for the 12th Annual Eccles Family Rural West Conference. This one-day rural-issue barnstormer was organized by both Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West and the Ivan Doig Center
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Is 2000’s fashion trending? A quick internet search says yes. Temu, Shein, and other fast fashion companies teem with Y2K themed clothing options. Though these low-cost garment retailers are a gateway to trendy wardrobes, their manufacturing processes bring carbon emissions, pollution, and other environmental costs. Earth Summit, a two-day conference hosted by sustainable budgeting app Commons and online consignment store ThredUp, highlighted
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Quinn Mitsuko Parker didn’t start out studying gender— at least not officially. For over two and a half years, she collaborated with coastal communities in southeast Madagascar to identify the challenges, and pathways, to achieving sustainable livelihoods. Along the way, she began to see gender as a central piece of the puzzle, revealing who is most impacted by climate change, and why.
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After scrolling past yet another alarming headline about climate change, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, and it’s just as easy to move on. For climate scientists, though, there is nowhere to move on to. They carry alarming feelings daily, confronting research that forecasts extreme weather, displacement, and ecological loss. So, how do the world’s twenty-thousand climate scientists continue their
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STANFORD, Calif. —For the first time in its history, this Thursday, the Stanford National Black Alumni Association welcomed over 600 alumni to campus for their Stanford Black Alumni Summit, which usually takes place in different locations across the country once every two years. “[It’s] an opportunity for alums to come together, not just to reminisce,
Squeeze a Sonoran Desert toad between your palms and a milky substance will ooze from its glands. Dried, then smoked, the juice is known to cause auditory and visual hallucinations. But poachers, in search of these transcendental toads, have descended into the night on the desert landscape, leading many to worry that the toad will go regionally
