Stanford Today
Edition: March/April, 1998
Section: News on Campus: Campus Briefs
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News on Campus

CAMPUS BRIEFS



>MAC HISTORY Apple Computer Inc., the company that brought the computer into the American home, has donated 2,000 boxes of its history to the Stanford University Libraries. The eclectic collection includes everything from company newsletters and executive scrapbooks to T-shirts, coffee mugs and decals. Apple had planned to house the memorabilia in its own museum, but overtaken by its financial problems, the company decided to turn the archive over to Stanford. The material will be cataloged and made available to researchers, said Henry Lowood, the university's curator for history of science and technology collections. Along with telling the company's story, Lowood said, the collection could help researchers understand the life cycle of a successful startup. "This could provide a solid picture of how to put it all together," Lowood said. "It could provide a road map."

A WINDOW ON GREATNESS A collection of papers linked to the family of author Nathaniel Hawthorne now rests in a high-security vault at the university. The sheaf of fragile papers - with wax seals and Concord, Mass., postmarks - includes letters and journals of Hawthorne's wife, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, and correspondence from relatives, friends and critics. Dating from 1830 into the early 1850s, the manuscripts cover the years of Hawthorne's greatest literary achievement. They reveal fascinating details of the Hawthorne household and are filled with tidbits about Emerson, Thoreau and Melville, all friends of the family. "In Sophia Hawthorne we are in the presence of a gifted witness and participant in what is one of the richest periods in American letters," said English Professor Jay Fliegelman.

TUITION CLIMBS - SLOWLY The good news: This is the smallest percentage tuition increase in three decades, and slightly below the expected growth in family income. The bad news: Stanford tuition still will increase next year, if only by 3.8 percent. The total price of tuition, room and board next year will be $29,879. As the Board of Trustees passed the tuition increase, it also increased its commitment to financial aid. The trustees voted to limit the impact of home equity when calculating financial aid eligibility and recalculate how the university considers outside scholarships. Almost 70 percent of Stanford students receive some form of financial assistance.

PEOPLE, PEOPLE Two Fulbright scholarships will be awarded annually in memory of AMY BIEHL, a Stanford graduate who was murdered in South Africa in 1993. One scholarship will be given to a South African graduate student to study in the United States, and the other will be awarded to an American to study in South Africa. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences presented Stanford Professor Emeritus JOSEPH GREENBERG with its Talcott Parsons Prize for Social Science for his work on ancestral languages and recognized his work in comparative linguistics. BRADFORD PARKINSON, the Edward C. Wells Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics in the School of Engineering, was presented with the Magellanic Premium Award of the American Philosophical Society for his contributions to the development of the Global Positioning System. Two Stanford history students, MARK BELL and ALISON POST, have been awarded Marshall Scholarships. The American Society for Microbiology has named CHARLES YANOFSKY, the Morris Herzstein Professor of Zoology, to receive its Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award. Biological sciences Professor ROBERT SIMONI is the recipient of the William C. Rose Award of the American Society of Biochemistry. SIDNEY DRELL, deputy director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, has received the Department of Energy's Distinguished Associate Award.