Stanford headlines for the week of July 9, 2008

Bicentennial Oak now history, but wood being saved
Stanford signs teacher-training agreement with Chilean university
Bioenergy potential seen in abandoned agricultural land
Energy expertise, $1 million presented for retrofit of county jail
Hong Kong-based Ho Family Foundation gives $5 million to expand, strengthen Stanford Buddhist studies program
Program packages primer on Beijing in time for Games
Shultz on North Korea
Stanford Summer Theater’s 10th season features works by Ireland’s Brian Friel
Translations and Faith Healer cast lists
Stanford Summer Theater Irish film series line-up
Results of research on atomic collisions fly in the face of conventional wisdom
Stanford engineers show nanotube circuits can be made en masse
Education faculty to make articles available to all
Honors & Awards
Geophysicist Simon Klemperer awarded 2008 Cox Medal
Graduates honored with 2008 Firestone, Golden medals, and new Kennedy Prize
Symposium to honor former SLAC Director Jonathan Dorfan
Engineers devise a solution for problem of sorting out different nanotube types
Democracy center reaches worldwide, picks 28 leaders as summer fellows
Telescope sees universe through gamma-ray eyes
Philanthropy, civil society center awards six fellowships
Scientist builds smallest 'Tree' ever
Bio-X researchers take first look at working muscle fiber with needle-thin probe
Taking a page from Facebook: Researchers track brain networks in Alzheimer's
Amid trauma, getting medical relief to Iraq civilians
Researchers find way to predict IVF pregnancy
Researchers get stem cell institute grants for $5.6 million
High school students learn to be summertime scientists in top research labs
Cancer cells revert to normal when signal goes below threshold, study finds
Molecule targets kidney cancer cells
Medical center people
Mitchell named cancer center director
Housing
Gross, Goldsmith win inaugural Stanford Postdoctoral Mentoring Award
All that jazz
Cardinal Chronicle
Campus-wide switch to new e-mail, calendar service begins
Beloved baseball administrative staffer to be honored
Detour