Stanford headlines for the week of January 24, 2007

Aerosol pollution slows winds, reduces rainfall
New online course evaluation system declared a success
Stanford police searching for missing student
Gift to Religious Life endows new fund
Staff, public invited to career fair Thursday
Stanford at top of its class in campus-greening practices and endowment policies, report says
Jenny Bilfield plans to bring new approaches to Lively Arts
Sending more troops to Iraq is a big mistake, panelists say
Memorial ceremony Feb. 13 for Seymour Martin Lipset
Honors & Awards
Colleagues and friends mourn death of pioneering geneticists
College days of student activism inform Richard Shaw’s perspective on work
Quote/Unquote
Center for Study of North American West to present lecture on crisis in fisheries
Physics Professor Andrei Linde to give lecture focusing on high-energy universe
Telescope, spacecraft linked for launch
Public invited to attend February arts residency lectures, readings and more
Genetic signature predicts recurrence of breast, prostate, lung cancers
Flexible options help balance career, family needs
Postmenopausal women needed for diet study
Grant will fund project to improve care of patients with chronic illnesses
Media monitor
Medical center people
Study questions using syndromic surveillance for anthrax
5 Questions: George Fisher on the two-year decline in U.S. cancer deaths
Researchers will study effects of exercise on abdominal aortic aneurysms
Housing
Cardinal Chronicle
Nominations sought for Deans' Award