Stanford headlines for the week of October 12, 2005

Conference to explore the social construction of ignorance
Dean Joss envisions larger Business School role in multidisciplinary graduate education
Satellite technology allows scientists to track warm sharks in frigid polar seas
Stanford team's win in robot car race nets $2 million prize
Open Enrollment events
Sudden change in social status triggers genetic response in male fish, study finds
Stanford's HighWire Press releases millionth free journal article
Health insurance rates to increase
Roberts hopes to streamline senate proceedings, striving for debate
Author to discuss book on female orgasm
Institute launched to bring "design thinking" to product creation
Honors & Awards
Hsu tapped for new advising position
Lively Arts 2005-06 season filled with the promise of memorable performances
Gravity Probe-B data collection ends: Was Einstein correct?
In print and on the air
Engineers from Stanford, GM, Bosch team up to make leaner, cleaner engines
$25 million gift endows overseas program, renamed in honor of Bings
Proposals sought for overseas seminars
Faculty Senate to meet for first session of quarter
Opera on atomic bomb focus of panel
All student hourly employees reminded to use online timecards as part of Kronos upgrade
'Knowledge and belief' to be explored
Economic policy research institute takes reins of the program in public policy
Mandatory training for stem cell work
Cohen named to new endowed post
Medical school sets up Office of Community Health
Expensive defibrillators may be worth every penny
Embryonic stem cell lines: Homegrown on the Farm?
One step closer to coaxing blood stem cells to multiply
Medical center people
Brave new brain: Special report on the cutting-edge research in neuroscience
Milan Henzl, developer of medicine for women's health, dies at 77
Three heart disease studies need volunteers
Media monitor
Report of the President to the Board of Trustees
Housing
ph.d. orals
Cardinal Chronicle
Offsite service center to begin takeover of staff BenefitSU calls