News & Views
Letter from the President - Passing Stanford On |
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Passing an Alma Mater from one generation to the next. By Gerhard Casper
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On Campus
Ensemble-in-Residence |
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The St. Lawrence String Quartet has become the new Stanford ensemble-in-residence, after an extensive search that attracted applicants from all over the country.
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50 Years of Humanities |
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The School of Humanities and Sciences, the university's largest, celebrates its 50th year with a new dean and a year-long series of events.
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Cynicism for All |
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Generation X aren't the only ones seeing the darker side of things.
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Eucalyptus Enemy |
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The university's towering, historic eucalyptus trees are threatened by a tiny Australian insect brought to California five years ago.
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Convocation 1998 |
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Convocation 1998 was packed with events and filled with emotional moments as 1,700 freshmen arrived on campus and bade farewell to their parents.
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Heads Up |
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Stanford faculty and student awards and
honors.
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Campus
Briefs |
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Denoument for Law Dean - Brest steps down as Dean of Law School
Rank Rankings - Stanford fights unsatisfactory rankings with their own.
Stanford MBAs cashing in - Stanford Business grads are the hot ticket for recruiters
Stanford out of Russia - 5-year-old Moscow campus shut down.
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Science & Medicine
Ninth Nobel for Physics |
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A stunning fourth nobel prize in a row for a Stanford physicist. This time the honor goes to Robert B. Laughlin.
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Smashing Tiny Particles |
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The $177-million B-factory for the production of subatomic particles known as B mesons edges closer to getting the green light to operate at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
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Alternative Medicine |
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Survey shows increase in the belief in "Alternative Medicine".
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Mapping the Maize Genome |
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Scientists get a grant to study more closely just what makes crops grow.
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Cosmic Blast |
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Night turned Briefly into day in Earth's Ionosphere Aug. 27th from a cataclysmic magnetic flare on a star 20,000 light years away.
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The Secrets of Memory |
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What you remember and forget depends on how two distinct parts of the brain process the information, Stanford and Harvard neuroscientists have found.
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Science
& Medicine Briefs |
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Fishing by Satellite - Satellites watching the migratory patterns of fish.
Boost for Biology - Biology program given a rather large grant.
It's Not Fair - Being unhappy about your body weight can affect trying to loose it.
Seeing The Light - New invention able to clock light with extreme precision.
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Sports News
New to the Hall of Fame |
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Twelve outstanding athletes from 10 sports have been inducted as the class of 1998 into the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame, which already has 300 members.
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New and Old Maloney |
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Stanford has a new field hockey facility right next to Sunken Diamond, where the old Maloney soccer field used to be, while soccer has moved to the new Maloney Fields.
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Features
Toggling Between Ethnicites |
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Ethnic identities have become more complex as the numbers of interracial couples and children of mixed races rise all around the country.
By Kathleen O' Toole
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Profile - Al Camarillo |
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Al Camarillo is widely credited with training almost half the nation's university faculty teaching Chicano studies, but for his students he always has been a teacher to whom they can talk.
By Diane Manuel
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Learning Curve |
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"Understanding Racial and Ethnic Identity: Increasing Self-Understanding." a compelling class seen through the eyes of professor and student.
By Teresa LaFromboise and Willow Lung
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It's a Wrap |
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A gastronomic tour around the campus today: multicultural, polyglot, and pan-ethnic.
By Robert Strauss
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Made to Eat |
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A provocative essay defending the return of the nurturing mother
By Annamaria Napolitano
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AIDS: Beyond the Lab |
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As AIDS makes devestating inroads in a nearby community, Stanford tries to reach across a geographic and economic divide.
By Sally Lehrman
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Madagascar: The Butterflies Way |
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Stanford scientists help design a Madagascar park to preserve rare species and sustain the people living nearby..
By Janet Basu
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Stanford Observed |
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The sun sets on the final issue of Stanford Today magazine.
By Alan Acosta
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