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Institutions RSS FeedsEntrepreneurship program wins recognition - Two directors of the entrepreneurship program in Stanford's School of Engineering won the National Academy of Engineering's top award for teaching this week....Feed Source: news-service.stanford.edu Six Stanford scholars named AAAS fellows - Five Stanford scientists and the university librarian have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor bestowed upon members of the association by their peers.... Life got bigger in two, million-fold leaps, scientists say - Earth's creatures come in all sizes, yet they (and we) all sprang from the same single-celled organisms that first populated the planet. So how on Earth did life go from bacteria to the blue whale?... Trustees give preliminary nod to concert hall, dining commons - The Stanford University Board of Trustees last week gave concept and site approval to a 900-seat, $145-million concert hall to be built on triangular plot of land near Frost Amphitheater.... Yoko Ono to speak at Stanford - Avant-garde artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, will be visiting campus Jan. 14 to give a lecture, "Passages for Light," at 7 p.m. in Dinkelspiel Auditorium. The lecture is open and free to Stanford students, faculty and staff with a current Stanford ID.... Reforestation helped trigger Little Ice Age, researchers say - The power of viruses is well documented in human history. Swarms of little viral Davids have repeatedly laid low the great Goliaths of human civilization, most famously in the devastating pandemics that swept the New World during European conquest and settlement.... Stanford celebrates as Milton turns 400 - To celebrate John Milton's 400th birthday, students and scholars convened Dec. 4 in the Terrace Room of Margaret Jacks Hall to read 'Paradise Lost''s 11,000 lines in 10 hours flat.... Heather Wimmer, director of athletics investment fund, dead at 47 - Heather Lani Wimmer, who worked for Stanford Athletics as executive director of the Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation Investment Fund, died Nov. 22 of brain cancer. She was 47.... Continuing Studies courses begin week of Jan. 12 - Enrollment is open for more than 100 courses, lectures, workshops and special programs being offered winter quarter through the Continuing Studies Program.... Stanford admits 689 early applicants - Stanford University was more selective than ever in its early admission program this year, accepting only 689 of 5,363 applicants to the Class of 2013, the Office of Undergraduate Admission announced today.... California crops at risk, say Stanford researchers - Global warming will likely put enormous strain on California's water supply and energy systems and have a devastating impact on certain crops.... University announces changes to organization - Stanford?s chief of police and chief purchasing officer will each report to a new boss starting Jan. 1 as a result of changes to the university?s organization announced this week.... Robert Zajonc, pioneer of social psychology, dies at 85 - He witnessed and survived some of the worst of human behavior to become one of the world?s leading experts on how people behave.... Wind, water and sun beat other energy alternatives, study finds - The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford.... Celebrating the man who invented the mouse - Forty years ago, Stanford researcher Doug Engelbart got a standing ovation in a San Francisco auditorium after dramatically introducing the computer mouse, hyperlinks, live text editing and interactive computing in an historic demo at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference. Tuesday, in Stanford's Memorial Auditorium, the gray-haired, 83-year-old electrical engineer received another round of applause.... Copyright © 2009, OkieWebs. All Rights Reserved. |