Departments
President’s Letter - Challenge of the West |
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A Western spirit of pioneering, entrepreneurship and energy
is surely one of
Stanford’s distinctive characteristics. Stanford continues to advance
because of such pioneers as
philosophy Professor Patrick Suppes; music Professor John Chowning; and the
researchers of the Center for the Study
of Language and Information By Gerhard
Casper
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Campus News
Rebuilding A Sense of Place |
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The magnitude of the damage incurred by the Oct. 17, 1989,
earthquake offered an opportunity
to rebuild many of the Quad buildings from the top to bottom, inside and out. The
restoration of Building 30,
housing a newly established language center, will offer a good sense of what an
Inner Quad building looked
like at the turn of the century. By Marisa
Cigarroa
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Donor Fund
Spurs Quad Project |
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Three families, each having longstanding legacies with
Stanford, donate $20 million
to the Restoration Fund. In recognition of these large donations the
remaining three Quad corners will be renamed.
The Fund is seeking to raise $50 million to help rebuild and strengthen
campus structures.
By Marisa Cigarroa
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Christopher
Gives Key Speech on Environment |
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“Pollution respects no boundaries,” said Secretary of State
Warren Christopher in a major
foreign policy address at Stanford on April 9, 1996. The address, which came
after the Institute for International
Studies’ Global Environment Forum, links America’s political and economic
interests to the state of the environment
in other nations and other regions around the world.
By Janet Basu
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Campus
News Digest |
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Five Faculty Named Sloan Fellows - Each wins $35,000,
two-year research fellowship.
 Cardoso Returns to
School - Brazilian President
announces $1 million endowment.
Panther Archives
Purchased - Significant research and
instructional value for the study of the African American experience and the
broader context of social and political
movements of the 1960s.
Grant Funds Higher
Education Study - $12.5-million study
of national and global changes in postsecondary education.
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Science & Medicine News
Physician, Downsize Thyself |
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In his second year as dean of Stanford’s Medical School,
Eugene Bauer must chart the trajectory of the organization into a new era in both
patient care and teaching. He must simultaneuosly nurture the school’s most
treasured educational asset - the flexibility of the curriculum - while answering
to the financial scrutiny and the shifting demands of managed care.
By Jeffrey Davis
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Down on the
(Ant) Farm |
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In the sense that individual insects responding individually
to change may do complicated things, colonies of ants or bees are like a
computerized neural network. Or like a mammalian brain. Deborah M. Gordon,
assistant professor of biological sciences, in the March 14 issue of the journal
Nature, delivers a progress report on the research on social
insects. By Janet Basu
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Science &
Medicine News Digest |
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Promising Advance in MS Fight - Research suggests an an effective treatment.
Terman Fellowships -
Six science and engineering faculty win $100,000 annually for three years.
Lymphoma Treatment -
Cellular radiation therapy can halt the advance of lymphoma.
Researchers Identify
Epilepsy Gene - Knowledge will assist doctors in diagnosis of progressive myoclonus epilepsy.
Eating Disorders Focus
of Study - $1 million grant funds study of eating and self-image.
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Sports News
Next Stop: Atlanta Gold |
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Skip Kenney and Richard Quick (Stanford’s head swimming
coaches), Tara VanDerveer (Stanford’s head women’s basketball coach), and Sherry
Posthumus (Stanford’s head women’s fencing coach) are preparing for Atlanta and
the 1996 Summer Olympics as, respectively, Olympic men’s swimming coach, Olympic
women’s swimming coach, Olympic women’s basketball coach, and team leader for the
combined Olympic men’s and women’s fencing teams. By Diane
Manuel
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Sports
News Digest |
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Swimmers Take National Title - Women’s swimming team takes
fifth consecutive national title.
Track and Field Bid -
If U.S.A. Track and Field’s bid is selected, Stanford will host the 1999 World
Track and Field Championships.
Women Hoopsters Make
Final Four - Making it five in the last seven years, the Cardinal women,
unbeaten in 18 Pac-10 games, earn No. 3 national ranking.
Track Facility Gets
Face Lift - $1.5 million project restores Angell Field and Cobb Track to
competitive condition.
Place-Kicker Gets
Fine, Probation - Eric Abrams pleads no contest to seven misdemeanor charges.
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Engineering Leadership
Circuits of Knowledge |
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Stepping down as dean of the School of Engineering, James
Gibbons is poised to use what he’s learned in entirely new ways. Since he arrived
in 1953 as a graduate student, Gibbons has developed a broad record of
accomplishments. As dean, having tripled the amount of industrial support for
research programs, added 30 new endowed chairs, moved the world-class computer
science program from humanities into engineering, and found more than $60 million
in building funds, Gibbons has moved the School from top five to number one. Now,
as Counsel to the President for Industry Relations, he will try to do the same
for the entire university. Meanwhile he will bring his methods, a burning
passion, and the bulk of his time, to bear on the problems of juvenile offenders
and other so-called “at-risk” youth.
By Joan
Hamilton
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Stepping
Up |
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By almost every measure, John Hennessy has been successful in
his 43 years: an international reputation for his work in computer architectures,
the successful startup of a Silicon Valley company, the chairmanship of a
prestigious Stanford department. Forget all that. Hennessy faces his biggest
challenge when he succeeds Jim Gibbons as dean of the School of Engineering in
June, stepping up to run the school at a time of shrinking financial resources
and growing academic and technological demands.
By David
Salisbury
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Martin Luther King Jr.
A Sudden Call |
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Clay Carson’s life hasn’t been quite the same since he
answered the phone at 10 p.m. on a January evening in 1985. Coretta Scott King
was calling from Atlanta to ask if he would consider heading up the Martin Luther
King Jr. Papers Project. Although Carson had some initial doubts about the
feasibility of directing the project from Stanford, he gradually was won
over.
By Diane Manuel
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Transcendence |
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When Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the call to Montgomery’s
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in 1954, he could hardly have expected that he would
soon become a protest leader. Yet the Montgomery boycott marked the beginning of
a new phase of King’s ministry, and his arousing oratory gave the protest new
meaning as “the birth of the ideal of freedom in America.” King’s emergence as an
advocate of nonviolent social change is explored in the forthcoming book
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume III: Birth of a New Age (Dec.
1955-Dec. 1956).
By Clayborne
Carson
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