Stanford headlines for the week of August 6, 2008

Staffer Kristin Miscavage, Amy Blue Award-winner, dead at 56
Stanford jazz camp hits high notes
Knight Fellowship awards Risser Prize for global warming coverage
Science outreach program helps to prepare high-schoolers for rigors of college
New fruit-fly study adds weight to theories of another adult stem cell
Longtime Electrical Engineering staffer remembered at service held last month
Alumnus Jude Shao freed on probation from Chinese prison
Research Experience Program seeks applications for autumn quarter
Board of Trustees elects two new members: Christine Hazy and Susan McCaw
Class project takes wing with proposal for no-frills Colombian airline
Faculty invited to submit nominations for award honoring research support
Studies show people underestimate the willingness of others to help them out
Study challenges prevailing theory of aging in cells
Genetic evidence traces ancient African migration
Hospitals withdraw union recognition, workers reply
Panel reviewing ethics, use of stem cell lines
Two faculty will benefit from Keck awards to do research
Study finds HIV medicine can raise risk of drug resistance in mothers, babies
Stanford-Kaiser heart research center funded to study treatment outcomes
Stanford Medicine's summer issue explores the world of clinical trials
Heady research: Study finds molecule triggers hair growth in mouse embryos
Medical center people
Housing
Ph.D. Orals
Cardinal Chronicle