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Michael McFaul nominated as new ambassador to Russia

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Michael McFaul, political science professor and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, has been nominated by President Obama to serve as the next ambassador to Russia. McFaul also has served as deputy director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Fingertip-size microscope's potential for studying the brain

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A tiny portable microscope has been built by Stanford researchers. The miniature device can be used in the lab or in the field for biological research and potentially for medical screening for diseases. The microscopes, built using existing technologies, could be inexpensively mass-produced.

Researchers develop objective way to measure pain

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Sean Mackey, chief of the Division of Pain Management, and his colleagues at the medical school have taken a first step toward developing a diagnostic tool that could eliminate a major hurdle in pain medicine—the dependency on self-reporting to measure the presence or absence of pain.

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  • Full schedule of Town Hall meetings on health care changes: The Benefits Office will hold three more Open Enrollment Town Hall meetings this month: in the San Francisquito Building on Porter Drive (Sept. 21); at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (Sept. 22); and at Hopkins Marine Station (Sept. 28). In addition, active employees can participate in a WebEx Workshop from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20. The full schedule includes sessions that will take place during the Open Enrollment period. For additional information on Open Enrollment and printable copies of the Open Enrollment newsletters, visit the Benefits website.
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