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Thursday, July 5, 2012
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Sam Shepard's play Curse of the Starving Class, along with a Shepard film series, community symposium and Continuing Studies course, comprise Stanford Summer Theater's season devoted to the actor and playwright.
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A new course and podcast project, created by Stanford students, seeks to explain the Anthropocene, a term scientists are considering for a new geological period defined by human impact on the planet.
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Last week, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences hosted a social sciences summit, a smorgasbord of talks in fields ranging from game theory to workplace politics. The conference featured a keynote by New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell.
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Staff leave donation program now university-wide: As of July 1, the Stanford Community Leave Bank, which was rolled out on a limited basis in the spring, is now university-wide. It allows benefits-eligible staff to donate accrued vacation leave hours to a central leave “bank,” which will allocate leave hours to benefits-eligible staff in need due to a catastrophic qualifying event after they have exhausted all of their own available leave hours. Read more on the University Human Resources website.
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