Jonathan Levin, dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, has been appointed the 13th president of Stanford University. Levin is a distinguished economist and a Stanford alumnus who has led the business school for the last eight years. He was appointed by the Stanford University Board of Trustees last week.

The California Attorney General's Office defended the department's position in a brief it filed in the case last week.

Theo Baker, a Stanford University freshman, received a prestigious national journalism award for his investigative reporting.

Accusations against neuroscientist Mark Tessier-Lavigne, first reported years ago, resurfaced in February when the student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, published a series of articles questioning the accuracy and honesty of work produced in laboratories overseen by the former Genentech executive.

The National Labor Relations Board reported that 94% of Stanford graduate student workers voted to form the new union, according to union organizers.

Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen said that evidence shows that Jennifer Gries made up the rape stories because she was angry at a co-worker.

In “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World,” author and Palo Alto native Malcolm Harris tells tales of the city’s founding, highlighting how some grew rich through technology and science while others were left out of the growth and prosperity.

John Arthur Getreu, 78, admitted to the 1973 murder of Lesley Perlov, 16 months after he was convicted in the 1974 killing of another woman in what proxecutors called The Stanford Murders.

Dr. Stanley Cohen was ordered to pay nearly $30 million to the Emeryville-based venture capital firm Alafi Capital and the Christopher Alafi Family Trust, the only two investors in Cohen's company Nuredis Inc.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo faces a backlash over the hiring of former Cal State Chancellor Joseph Castro for a faculty position. Castro resigned the chancellorship in the wake of a scandal over how he handled sexual harassment allegations against a top administrator.

While Silicon Valley is seen as a haven for abortion services by medical professionals and legal experts, gaps still exist online and on billboards across the South Bay.

Public and private health officials pass the buck on a request for a dedicated room for sexual assault survivors

A Scotts Valley nonprofit is set to tackle a $1 million Title IX investigation across Santa Clara County’s hundreds of K-12 and post-secondary schools, despite having neither college-level experience nor legal staff for the task. Education, Training and Research Associates is the intended awardee of a contract to assess and codify how educators countywide comply with state and federal laws on sex- and gender-based harassment and abuse, according to documents obtained by San Jose Inside. The decision will be final on June 10, if none of the other four bidding agencies protest the selection.

Within hours of the his faux flyer trending online, the university's Office of Community Standards dropped the complaint and lifted the hold on Nicholas Wallace's degree.

University leaders, announcing the reversal, cited improvements in the school’s investments, and said the programs' supporters helped reveal a new funding path.

Facebook’s Oversight Board said the ongoing risk of violence “justified” the suspension.