Silicon Valley companies join forces for new hospital

Apple, eBay, HP, Intel, Intuit and Oracle are founding members of the new Stanford Hospital Corporate Partners Program, which will support the development of the new $2 billion hospital. Their contributions are projected to provide as much as $150 million over the next 10 years.

The brain knows what the nose smells, but how?

Biology Professor Liqun Luo, left, and postdoctoral fellow Kazunari Miyamichi have developed a technique to trace neural pathways across the brain by mapping the path of odor signals as they travel to the higher centers of a mouse brain, illuminating the ways mammalian brains process smells.

BeWell@Stanford: Facing the fear of finance

Eric Tyson, author of Personal Finance for Dummies and Investing for Dummies, talks about the factors that keep us from taking control of our financial well-being. Tyson, who earned an MBA from the Graduate School of Business, offers commonsense advice on money matters.

Senate to hear reports on GSB, mental health, well-being

At Thursday's Faculty Senate meeting members will hear a report from Garth Saloner, the dean of the Graduate School of Business, and from a panel discussing student mental health and well-being.

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• Staff Resource Fair: The Staff Resource Fair, scheduled for Thursday, March 17, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Oak Lounge in Tresidder Union, will be an opportunity for all staff to get information about services and programs that might be useful professionally and personally. Pre-registration is encouraged. For more information visit the fair's website.

Football coach DAVID SHAW will announce his first recruiting class today  . . .

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