Teaching and Students
11.12.08Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to speak on microfinance, health care
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus will talk about economics and health care during his visit to Stanford on Friday.
Department chair creates room for moms
Since adopting a policy in 2005 that provides 12 weeks of support for pregnant graduate students, Chemistry Department administrators have been fielding a set of relatively new questions from expectant mothers: "Is this like maternity leave?" and "Will I be able to maintain full-time status while I'm away?"
Ghost trackers
More than 100 staff, faculty and students turned out Friday for the 1.5-mile Halloween Monster Mash Walk at Cobb Track. The event was part of the Pac-10 Fitness Challenge.
University issues new Acts of Intolerance Protocol
Stanford has issued a revised policy outlining how the university will respond to "acts of intolerance," defined as acts that adversely and unfairly target a person or group on the basis of one or more actual or perceived characteristics: gender or gender identity, race or ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, nationality and age.
Electoral college students
On Monday, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom spoke outside Old Union at a rally for Barack Obama and in opposition to state Proposition 4, the Abortion Waiting Period and Parental Notification Initiative, and Proposition 8, which would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry.
Board of Trustees approves new card-access system, campus building projects
The Board of Trustees last week gave the green light to a $19 million project to continue installing a new card-access system in student residences—one of several building projects trustees acted on during their Oct. 13-14 meeting.
Director named for Stanford in Cape Town
The Bing Overseas Studies Program has appointed Timothy Stanton as director of Stanford in Cape Town, which is slated to open in early 2010.
Black Plaza
Students took part in a spontaneous line dance at the annual “Black Plaza” celebration Oct. 17. The noontime gathering was held in White Plaza and co-sponsored by the Black Student Union and several other organizations.
Remembering the fallen
A ceremony honoring Donald Ryan McGlothlin, MS ’03, a marine killed in Iraq in 2005, was held Friday in Memorial Hall, where a temporary plaque was dedicated in his memory.
Community mourns deaths of three students in highway accident
Three students from the Graduate School of Business lost their lives when the car in which they were riding Friday evening apparently careened down a cliff off Highway 1 near Big Sur, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office confirmed today.
Stanford researchers launch Short Attention Span Science Theater website
Researchers at Stanford University have launched Short Attention Span Science Theater—an interactive website featuring short video segments, called "microdocs," that are designed to make science understandable.
8,900 people expected for Reunion Homecoming
Reunion Homecoming 2008 runs Oct. 9-12 on campus, with hundreds of individual events and programs scheduled for alumni and their families.
Biosafety panel’s approval process for protocols to go online
The university's procedure for submitting research protocols that require approval by the Administrative Panel on Biosafety (APB) will soon switch from a paper-based system to one that is done entirely online.
Cory Booker recalls 'gut checks' on road to becoming Newark public servant
After studying at Stanford, Oxford and Yale and racking up what his father called "more degrees than the month of July," Cory Booker found himself in an unlikely spot: living in a rundown high rise in one of the worst neighborhoods in Newark, N.J.
Haas Center funds 14 postgraduate fellowships in ’08
The Haas Center for Public Service has named the 2008 recipients of the John Gardner Public Service Fellowships, the Tom Ford Fellowships in Philanthropy and the Stanford Public Interest Network (SPIN) Fellowships.
