Known for its vibrant spirit, Branner Hall is now an upperclass (non-frosh) residence on campus with a new focus program on public service. The elegant, Mission-style building, renovated in 2003, will house 125 students beginning in 2009, primarily in two-room doubles. Resident fellows, Clyde Moneyhun and Nancy Buffington, work with resident assistants (RAs) to bring fresh service-related programs, bring in speakers, and facilitate collaboration on special projects within this energetic residence. *Students may participate in a pre-assignment process to this residence if interested in the public service program.

Mail is delivered to students’ Post Office boxes, assigned in early September.  Please note that the Post Office does not deliver student mail to the residences, only to the Post Office.  The Housing Front Desk cannot accept mail or packages for students. 

Here is a sample P.O. Box address.  Insert your unique P.O. Box number.

Jane Student
P.O. Box  12345
Stanford, CA 94309-2345

If you are having something shipped which requires a street address, please ship it to yourself, at your residence.

Branner Dining's intimate dining room and beautiful estate-style kitchen and servery greet students five days a week. Seven different food stations offer a variety of cuisine options, and special consideration is paid to vegan and vegetarian diets.

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Upperclass house
Co-ed by corridor
Clyde Moneyhun and Nancy Buffington
Public Service Focus
In 2009-10, Branner Hall is host to a new program as a public service focus house. Many Stanford students already get involved in serious, meaningful service. The residential education program wants to offer students a community of like-minded peers, to enable collaboration on specific projects, and to foster a deeper understanding of service through exposure to others' experiences, accomplishments, and challenges. We also hope that some students coming in with limited exposure to service will get involved in their dorm mates' activities. Branner’s activities will include a range of service-related programming (local, regional and national service speakers, a service symposium), small- and large-scale service projects coordinated in the dorm, and a dorm-based course and/or reading group focused on issues surrounding service. See pre-assignment and regular assignment information below.

*Important Assignment Information

1. Beginning 2009-2010, Residential Education is offering a pre-assignment system for Ethnic/Academic Theme and Focus Houses.
2. If you intend to apply for pre-assignment to a participating Theme or Focus house (ie. Branner), you must understand that if you are granted pre-assignment, you automatically accept the pre-assignment and therefore are not eligible for the 2009 Housing Draw or other housing application periods.
3. Eligibility for pre-assignment is determined according to publicized, objective criteria for each residence. See Residential Education for details or contact their office at 650-725-2800.
4. Draw Assignment—Students may apply without pre-assignment. Through the Draw you can list on your application a special program house for which you are interested. When you apply you are
1. agreeing to meet the pre-requisites,  
2. expected to fulfill house requirements, and
3. also indicating that you understand if you do not meet the pre-requisites for the house, your assignment can be cancelled when you reach the in-house draw, or you will be reassigned out of the house.
5. Draw Assignment (for students applying to the non-focus portion of a Focus House): Students in the Draw – who are not interested in the special program and apply to the non-focus portion of a Focus House – you may obtain an assignment but are not required to participate in focus programs. These students may take part in other traditional dorm activities, such as trips to the City, movie nights, IMs, and study breaks.

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Branner Hall opened in January 1924, named after John Caspar Branner, Stanford’s first professor, second president (1913-1915), and Chair of the Department of Geology and Mining. The elegant building was designed by the San Francisco firm of Bakewell & Brown, who also designed Memorial Auditorium and the original Bing Wing of Green Library.