Stanford headlines for the week of November 7, 2007

Junior the robotic car places second, bagging $1 million
Study finds deadly bacteria responds to light
Indigenous leaders study resource management on campus
Deborah Kim Emery, researcher at Gardner Center, dead at 35
Talk to address catastrophe risk analysis
All-female robotics team to visit the Farm
Comings & Goings
Honors & Awards
Simon Schama examines British, American differences in abolishing slave trade
Faculty Senate meeting Thursday
$10 million to launch strategic initiative
Center’s 10th year celebrated with conference on diversity and its challenges
New academic secretary recalls years at Oxford, night spent on a target range
Historical society wins governor’s award for promoting pasts of campus homes
Play conveys twins’ opposite lives
New site makes it easier for patients to find clinical trials
Researchers shed light on black box of diabetes
New cardiovascular residency approved
Pilot mentoring program to start in pediatrics
Blood center director to talk about research
Curriculum reform takes medical school a notch higher for the future
Memorial planned for Richard Jobe, 82, plastic surgeon
Beachy named to endowed Gallo professorship
Labnotes
Ruth Gross, pediatrics researcher and advocate, dies at 87
Ph.D. Orals
Housing
‘Mom’ of radiological sciences lab wins Marsh O’Neill Award
New website has financial tasks, information better organized
Cardinal Chronicle