COLLEGE 101 students are required to read Jenny Odell’s best-selling book “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy” from this year’s Three Books program. An artist, writer and Stanford ...

Stanford University’s proximity to the hotbed of the California technology industry drives its students to succeed; it also may be a reminder of potential failure in a competitive world. The school’s ...

Located on the Stanford University campus, the single-story sanctuary completes the lifelong dream of artist Nathan Oliveira, who died in 2010 after teaching at Stanford for three decades. The team ...

The Windhover Contemplative Center will be a meditation center that is intended for spiritual retreat on the Stanford University campus. Artist Nathan Oliveira, who died in 2010, had a dream of ...

The sounds of water trickling down a stream, the smell of newly cut wood and the vast canvases of mellow colors full of allusions to the solar system, flight and time — this is what greets students, ...

The meditation space has been designed to inspire a deep sense of calm. Massive walls of native rock, sand, and clay work their magic by quieting outside chaos and reverberating calm with a unique ...

“Nathan Oliveira: The Kestrel, and Windhover Related Works” is on view at the Wiegand Gallery through Oct. 31. A reception for the show will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 27. Oliveira, who died in ...