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Be a Language Conversation Partner

Language Conversation Partners (LCPs) are Stanford students who meet with language students during one-to-one appointments to practice conversation in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, or Spanish. 

Why Thinking Matters?

Thinking Matters helps you ask rigorous and genuine questions that can lead to scientific experimentation, literary interpretation, or social policy analysis. The lively lecture and seminar format challenges you to discover collaborative ways to approach problem solving.

LSP Preceptors.

Learn more about our residential living-learning communities: ITALIC, SLE, LSP, and FroSoCo.

Arts Intensive students on stage.

Visit our "Ask the Artists" section, where Arts Intensive faculty speak candidly about practicing and teaching their craft.

Hong Kong Skyline, Getty Images.

Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) has announced a new Hong Kong offering for 2019.

Sophomore College field trip. Photo by Jorge Cueto.

Sophomore College is a three-week residential summer program during which second-year students in seminars of 12 students engage in intense academic exploration. 

LSP students in the lab. Photo by L.A. Cicero / Stanford News Service.

The Leland Scholars Program helps ease the transition to Stanford for students who may be the first members of their families to attend college, come from low-income households or are graduates of high schools with limited curricular offerings.

Two NSC students

It's not just about the research you do, it's about how you share it.  Learn how to most effectively communicate technical information to a variety of audiences. 

Lake Lag, long exposure. Photo by Samatha Starkey.

The Undergrad Photo Contest is a way for you to show us -- and the rest of the student body -- your Stanford life. Check out our award-winning photos for 2016-17 in the following categories: The Arts, Learning in Action, A Day in the LIfe, Off Campus, and Loving Light. (Photo by Samantha Starkey.)

Stop Hunger Now Community Service event. Photo by Ian Terpin.

Through Cardinal Service, Stanford offers you a wide variety of public and community service opportunities, ranging from on-campus courses to off-campus research to community-based leadership projects. Students pursuing any course of study can find opportunities to serve and many offer academic credit. Find out more!