Stanford headlines for the week of May 14, 2008

John W. Gardner Center gets $8 million endowment to foster youth leadership
Dancing at the Stanford Powwow
Easterly doesn't think foreign aid is the solution to world poverty
Danish newspaper editor says free speech is in jeopardy
Key advance made in quest to develop computers that use quantum photonics
Famed scientist’s papers, artifacts arrive at library
Award-winning play Harlem Duet tells story of modern Othello
Boots on the ground
Salman Rushdie tells stories of oppression, freedom and the fatwa
Emergency notification system, AlertSU, scheduled for testing this afternoon
Faculty Senate to meet Thursday; Academic Council meeting follows
Moulton, who helped get funding to build SLAC, dead at 89
Honors & Awards
Heat wave warning issued in Bay Area
Annual Meeting of the Academic Council
Annual Academic Council meeting to be held Thursday, May 15
How to sustain food, biofuels, forests to be focus of Boething Lecture
Symposium on music and brain returns
Three employees honored with annual staff award
Grounds supervisor known for dedication to crews, campus
For Earth Systems associate director, students come first
Financial aid expert enriches her life with service to students and community
$43M grant for state-of-the-art stem cell facility
Research reveals how lungs grow airway branches
Cancer society chief to talk on global tobacco
Tired of faculty photo? It's time to get another
Platypus genome shows how evolution gave mammals a reproductive edge
Paradox protein starts and stops cancer, study finds
Rockson named to new endowed professorship
Former professor of pediatrics, James French, dies at 70
Medical center people
Media monitor
Housing
Ph.D. Orals &&&
Stanford Lively Arts 2008-09 season balances edgy and traditional repertoire
Cardinal Chronicle
National History Education Clearinghouse is launched online