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Campus News
 Newest Nobel Douglas D.
Osheroff has won the
Nobel Prize in physics, along with two colleagues from Cornell University,
for their 1972 discovery of superfluidity in helium-3. When cooled to
extremely low temperatures, this rare form of helium flows without
resistance and behaves in unusual ways, such as climbing up the sides of a
container and flowing out. Osheroff made the discovery when he was a
graduate student at Cornell. A popular teacher who has been at Stanford
since 1987, Osheroff also received one of the first MacArthur Foundation
"genius" grants in 1981. He said that "there is so much good work in physics
that is never recognized by a Nobel. I feel very lucky."
Fundraising Record The university
raised
nearly $313 million in the 1995-96 fiscal year, reflecting a record year in
fundraising
and an increase in participation rates of alumni. The total was
bolstered by an ongoing effort to increase the number of alumni donors and
by a large gift from David Packard's estate to complete the Science and
Engineering Quadrangle. This is the first year Stanford has surpassed $300
million for annual fundraising, and the third consecutive year the
university has drawn a record number of gifts from a record number of
donors. Stephen Peeps, acting vice president for development, said that
"what pleases us is that those dollars are driven by enormously large
numbers of individual gifts and individual donors. Large gifts alone cannot
meet all the real needs of the university because they tend not to provide
the more flexible, current-use dollars that annual gifts provide and that no
university can do without."
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