Stanford in the News
New York Times 4.30.08Race Is On to Advance Software for Chips
Stanford and six computer and chip makers plan to announce Friday the creation of the Pervasive Parallelism Lab. In addition to Stanford, the backers are Sun Microsystems, Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia, I.B.M., Hewlett-Packard and Intel. More >
San Jose Mercury News 4.28.08Laptop orchestras bridge the distance
On Tuesday, Stanford musicians will perform - in real time, via the Internet, in front of a live audience at Stanford's Dinkelspiel Auditorium - with musicians from Beijing University, 6,000 miles distant. With the aid of giant video screens, both groups will hear, watch and play along with each other. More >
India E-News 4.28.08ACM-Infosys Foundation award for Stanford professor Koller
Stanford University professor Daphne Koller has been chosen for the first ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in computing sciences for her innovative approach to artificial intelligence (AI) that allows computers to reason and learn about the world from real-time data, the IT bellwether announced here Monday. More >
Stanford Daily 4.28.08Op-Ed from Provost John Etchemendy: Free speech and Old Union
Provost John Etchemendy discusses the decision to remove an exhibition of photographs from the Old Union. "The problem is that what is appropriate free expression in one context on campus is not in another," he writes. More >
New York Sun 4.23.08Inaugural Rathbun Lecture: O'Connor Sees Ethical Deficit in Legal Profession
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor inveighed against unscrupulous lawyers and corrupt government officials following a speech she delivered at Stanford University last night. More >
Palo Alto Weekly 4.23.08Reinventing graduate education
A new Stanford grant program aims to foster creativity and community in Ph.D. programs More >
New York Times 4.22.08Letter: The Flip Side of Plastic
Jason Hodin, a postdoctoral researcher at the Lab of Environmental Toxicology, questions assertions in an article about the virtues of plastic. He notes that researchers are only beginning to understand fully the toxic nature of this material. More >
New York Times 4.22.08The Body in Depth
The School of Medicine is making available online images from the 1962 work "Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy" by Dr. David L. Bassett. Dr. Bassett's widow, Lucille Bassett, gave the image collection to Stanford in her will. More >
NPR 4.9.08David Lang Wins Music Pulitzer
Alumnus and New York-based composer David Lang won a Pulitzer Prize in Music for his composition The Little Match Girl Passion, which he created for the stage play of the children's story The Little Match Girl. Lang, who earned his undergraduate degree in music from Stanford, also played trombone and arranged charts for the Stanford Marching Band. More >
Chronicle of Higher Education 4.4.08What Happens in a Virtual World Has a Real-World Impact, a Scholar Finds
Forget the pills, hypnosis, and meditation. Losing weight or boosting self-confidence can be achieved by adopting an avatar and living in virtual reality, says Jeremy N. Bailenson, an assistant professor of communications at Stanford University. More >
New York Times 3.30.08Edison ...Wasn't He the Guy Who Invented Everything?
Mark Lemley, professor of intellectual property at Stanford Law School, discusses how the person who holds the patent is often the one associated with an innovation as opposed to earlier inventors. More >
New York Times Sunday Book Review 3.30.08High praise for Stanford Prof. Tobias Wolff's short stories
This review of Tobias Wolff's latest anthology, "Our Story Begins," praises the book for "reflecting the breadth of [Wolff's] gifts in the short form," and calls his voice "unfailingly authentic," his writerly instinct "vital" and "hardy." Wolff is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor at Stanford. More >
San Francisco Chronicle 3.29.08Art review: Chagoya's clash of cultures comic, caustic
In the words of critic Kenneth Baker, "Borderlandia" a retrospective of works by Stanford Professor Enrique Chagoya "familiarizes us with an artist who appears to work best when he does not know quite what he wants and so lets himself dream pictorially on his preoccupations with boundaries that divide cultural rituals, belief systems, social strata and eras." More >
New York Times 3.24.08Replacing Wire With Laser, Sun Tries to Speed Up Data
Sun Microsystems, in collaboration with Stanford and UC San Diego, is developing new technologies that will use lasers to connect chips and pave the way for a new generation of computers that are faster, more energy-efficient and more compact. More >
Sacramento Bee 3.22.08Op-ed: European leaders will miss blaming Bush
In his syndicated column, journalism professor Joel Brinkley discussed how President Bush's loss of credibility abroad made it easier for European leaders to refuse requests to participate in legitimate mulitlateral missions. More >
Los Angeles Times 3.18.08Law students make appeal for change
Stanford law students have founded Building a Better Legal Profession, which is aimed at forcing law firms to change the way they hire and promote young lawyers. More >
Palo Alto Weekly 3.18.08Stanford, Berkeley launch major stem-cell effort
Stanford and UC-Berkeley will launch a new stem-cell initiative that will include collaboration of their scientists and attract others from around the world. More >
Harvard Crimson 3.5.08New Stanford Facility Goes Green
Stanford University unveiled a cutting-edge, eco-friendly building yesterday that will use less than half the energy and a tenth of the water that a similarly-sized building would, according to University officials. More >
Palo Alto Weekly 3.5.08Stanford dedicates its 'greenest' building yet
Stanford University dedicated its most energy-efficient building on campus on Tuesday, one that will use half the electricity and just 10 percent of the potable water of a standard building its size. More >
San Jose Mercury News 3.5.08'Green' building dedicated
Stanford University on Tuesday dedicated the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building, the most sustainable campus building constructed to date. More >
San Francisco Chronicle 3.3.08Op-ed: EPA's own study argues for California waiver
Mark Z. Jacoboson, professor of civil and environmental engineering, argues that the EPA needs to reverse a decision it made last month and grant California the authority to set its own emission standards for carbon dioxide. More >
KGO ABC News 7 3.2.08Video: Stanford makes energy efficient new building
The new Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Building is proof that the latest sustainable architecture can look striking. More >
Chronicle of Higher Education 2.28.08New Stanford Environmental-Science Building Sets New Sustainability Standards
The first building in a new Stanford University science and engineering quadrangle will open Tuesday, complete with a long list of features intended to minimize energy use and maximize interaction among scholars. The 166,000-square-foot structure, which will house environmental-science researchers, was designed to the university?s own Stanford Performance Criteria for High Performance Buildings. More >
Newsweek 2.26.08Americans in Pyongyang include Stanford Professor William Perry
The New York Philharmonic made a historic performance in North Korea at the end of February. Among the dignitaries was former U.S. Defense Secretary and Stanford faculty member Wiliam Perry. What was the value of such a cultural exchange? "You cannot demonize people when you're sitting there listening to their music," he said "You don't go to war with people unless you demonize them first." More >
San Jose Mercury News 2.19.08Op-ed: Stanford helps philanthropists find best ways to help
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, a co-founder of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, discusses the role that universities can play in guiding charitable giving. More >
