Stanford headlines for the week of August 22, 2007

Friends and family bid farewell to Bill Walsh during service at Memorial Church
Editor of Science on how pork-barrel politics harms research funding
Los Angeles Times reporter wins Risser Prize for environmental journalism
Fliegelman, leading scholar in American literary, cultural studies, is dead at 58
Stanford initiatives to be presented at environmental journalism conference
Environmental journalism at the crossroads
Eco-friendly buildings are big step toward shrinking Stanford's carbon footprint
Transforming ivory towers to eco-versities
Panel to discuss quest for eco-friendly fuels, conservation
California's marine protection areas: a science-based investment in conservation
Q&A with Gretchen Daily, Woods Institute fellow and professor of biological sciences
Research roundup: Environmental solutions from Stanford
Stanford team puts campus on map; wins Google Earth 3-D modeling contest
School of Medicine extends smoking ban to outdoor zones
Restoring sandstone
Renowned radio astronomer and imaging pioneer is dead at 86
Nancy Hofstadter, widow of Nobel laureate in physics, is dead at 87
Vantage Point: Moving in the right direction and in the right way
Fall Continuing Studies program includes courses, public lectures, film festival
Hennessy travels to South America on government education mission
Study: Forest protection works in Peru
Robotic car ‘Junior’ one step closer to qualifying for Urban Challenge race
Stanford will help faculty, staff quit tobacco use
Case management can cut medical risks and cost
Rizk-y business: Himalaya trek leads doc to rescue
Seeking everyday heroes
X-ray art exhibit shows terror's human impact
Writing is thrilling, but he'd like a nap
Radiosurgeon named to new endowed professorship
Researchers seek volunteers for study on type-2 diabetes and TB infection
Medical student's device named finalist in competition
Study gives hope transplant patients could live free of anti-rejection drugs
Medical center people
Pull a muscle that won't heal? Culprit is weakened signals to stem cells
Housing
William Saroyan International Prize for 2008 linked with writer’s centennial
Ph.D. Orals
Incentives for vanpools are many, including increased subsidy
Cardinal Chronicle