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Tuesday,
Jan. 24, 2012

Photo: The Thinker inside of a box

The Thinker outside the box: Rodin's sculpture returns

Early Monday morning The Thinker, French sculptor Auguste Rodin's iconic work, resumed residency at the Cantor Arts Center after a two-year sabbatical at the North Carolina Museum of Art. He hasn't aged a bit.

Photo: Image of a woman in pain

Women report feeling pain more intensely than men

Women report more intense pain than men in virtually every disease category, say Stanford Medical School investigators who mined a huge collection of electronic medical records to establish the broad gender difference.

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With software, focus is on aircraft design, not coding

Stanford University Unstructured is an open-source software package that gives advanced engineering students a crucial leg up on the time-consuming process of writing their own code to optimize aerospace designs.

Campus Announcements

  • PowerPoint Workshop: Want to brush up on your PowerPoint skills? A course offered during the 2012 Winter Techie Festival can help you do just that. Learn how to build themes, use master slides and determine how much animation is too much. You also will pick up great tips and tricks to make your presentations stand out and take less time to build. The workshop is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 27, from 9 a.m. to noon. For more information or to register, visit the Techie Festival website.
  • Broken link: One of the links in the announcement about the Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching series was broken in yesterday's Stanford Report. For the correct link, click here.
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A new SCOPE blog feature offers readers a chance to post questions for experts. First up: Forgiveness guru FRED LUSKIN . . .

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