Stanford headlines for the week of June 18, 2008

Telescope blasts into orbit in search of clues to how universe works
Oprah Winfrey addresses Stanford Class of 2008
Gomes cites Dr. Seuss, Aristotle, Red Queen in Baccalaureate speech
Oprah talks to graduates about feelings, failure and finding happiness
Stanford on YouTube debuts with video of Oprah’s speech
In speech, Rev. Peter Gomes exhorts ‘virtue of failure’
New grants to fund research in ‘sustainable built environment’
In speech, Fischer likens life to giant jigsaw puzzle
Cell phone laws to take effect starting on July 1
Saddam Hussein’s papers, along with controversy, find a temporary home with the Hoover Institution
This picture is worth a thousand experts, in the art world
Screening older adults for HIV found cost-effective
Transplant surgeon gives annual Shumway lecture
Cantor Arts Center invites blood donations at exhibit
Researchers use math to predict how fast cells move
Medical center people
Dake returning to Stanford to direct cardiac catheterization and angiography lab
Graduation 2008: Support basic science to solve medical challenges, Kornberg tells grads
Faculty senate meets today on faculty, diversity
Class Day speaker says discovery is critical to personal and planetary future
Darwin a good example for us all, Durham says in Class Day address
Report of the President to the Board of Trustees
Memorial Resolution: Fernando Alegría
Housing
Memorial Resolution: David D. Perkins
Faculty Senate minutes - June 12, 2008 meeting
Ph.D. Orals
President’s introduction of Oprah, congratulations to Class of 2008
Cardinal Chronicle