1997 News Releases
Below you will find an index to the 1997 news releases from Stanford University.
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January
- English professor pens book on Noel Coward, Radclyffe Hall (1/97)
- Stanford Law School names Thomas Heller to Shelton Professorship (1/97)
- Sex gene discovery opens door for new studies of genes, brains, behavior (1/97)
- Senate will hear update on graduate fellowship program (1/97)
- Encina Hall East will be renovated to house IIS (1/97)
- Malaysian prime minister to visit Stanford Jan. 15-16 (1/97)
- New directors for Stanford-UCSF merged patient services (1/97)
- Two young Stanford scientists receive Presidential award (1/97)
- Housing system undergoing comprehensive review (1/97)
- The Stanford Prison Experiment: Still powerful after all these years (1/97)
- New signature of black holes detected? (1/97)
- Graduate Fellowship, Overseas Studies discussed at senate (1/97)
- Martin Luther King Project to produce digital products as well as books (1/97)
- DOE director of energy research visits Stanford (1/97)
- Report explores issues of privacy and electronic record keeping (1/97)
- Inventor of celletto expands world of computer music (1/97)
- The legacy of the computer HAL in 2001 (1/97)
- Space-borne radar to "revolutionize" views of Earth's hazards (1/97)
- W. David Rozkuszka, documents librarian, dead at 53 (1/97)
- Buying pots and pans over the Internet (1/97)
- Competitive markets in electricity don't always lead to low prices, economist says (1/97)
- $75,000 engineering fellowship established (1/97)
- Stanford Business School Professor David Montgomery Wins Prize (1/97)
- Rhode named president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools (1/97)
- Search for distant planets subject of public lecture (1/97)
- Stanford Humanities Center receives $625,000 NEH grant (1/97)
- Saldivar announces new undergraduate initiatives (1/97)
- Louise Spindler dies; Stanford lecturer for four decades (1/97)
- CTTL seeks proposals using technology (1/97)
- Stanford launches development research center with policy reform focus (1/97)
- Faculty Senate discusses course evaluation forms policy; hears report on Law School (1/97)
- New round of SLAC layoffs (1/97)
- Bill Bradley to spend a year at Stanford's Institute for International Studies (1/97)
- Researchers corral millions of microscopic membranes (2/97)
February
- Carson on Carson (2/97)
- 245 offered second-round early admission (2/97)
- Stanford scholars seek real-world solutions to environmental problems (2/97)
- Students press for socially responsible endowment fund (2/97)
- Stanford chaplains see revival of faith on campus (2/97)
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- Tea and Cookies takes on a serious tone (2/97)
- New argument for freeing banks (2/97)
- Sharing the burdens (2/97)
- Americans are feeling the pinch of services lost from ecosystems, Ehrlich says (2/97)
- Stanford MBA survey released (2/97)
- Mooney calls on scientists to find how biodiversity protects ecosystems (2/97)
- Price reformers trapped in their own policy (2/97)
- Public symposium on hazard of cosmic impacts (2/97)
- First working model of cellular furnace created (2/97)
- Nature subsidizes humanity with services worth trillions, ecologist says (2/97)
- Helping students build portfolios rather than transcripts (2/97)
- Elastic plastic moving from lab to industry (2/97)
- Schneider offers three questions to make a citizen-scientist (2/97)
- Teaching entrepreneurship to engineering students (2/97)
- Stanford launches European Forum with lecture by Germany's undersecretary of state (2/97)
- Sexual harassment report delivered to senate (2/97)
- Four Stanford faculty elected to National Academy of Engineering (2/97)
- Food supply fluctuations could cause crises for world's poor, researchers say (2/97)
- Economists discuss relevance of their profession (2/97)
- Board of Trustees raises undergraduate tuition by 4 percent(2/97)
- Yahoo! founders endow new Stanford chair (2/97)
- Professor Emeritus Benjamin M. Page dies at 85 (2/97)
- Stanford approves $1.2 million for bike improvements (2/97)
- New comparative program in race and ethnicity debuts (2/97)
- Number of endowed professorships increases by 12 (2/97)
- Ralph J. Smith dies; professor emeritus of electrical engineering (2/97)
- Not just the underclass on welfare, California study shows (2/97)
- Parents will arrive on campus this weekend (2/97)
- Political scientist honored for reducing risks of nuclear war (2/97)
- Geophysicists catch eruption before it starts (2/97)
March
- Fredrick Kruger, professor emeritus of earth sciences, dead at 84 (3/97)
- Faculty Senate to discuss CIV replacement course (3/97)
- Kingsley Davis, Hoover fellow, demographer, sociologist, dies at age 88 (3/97)
- New Hamburg Fellows in conflict prevention and early adolescence (3/97)
- Fifth new national academy of engineering member with strong Stanford ties (3/97)
- Weisberg to report on faculty gains and losses (3/97)
- Casper tells parents how he feels about college rankings (3/97)
- Former defense secretary Perry to teach, write on defense issues (3/97)
- Computer graphics and animation subject of public lecture (3/97)
- Uphill battle to improve status of women on the faculty (3/97)
- Stanford, SLAC to host Sixth International World Wide Web Conference (3/97)
- Smallest force measurement reported (3/97)
- Merger mania in medical care not likely to continue, economist says (3/97)
- Masque, a new literary magazine, is unveiled (3/97)
- Overseas Studies offers new program in Mexico (3/97)
- Humans have doubled Earth's usable nitrogen, scientists say (3/97)
- Rolf Eliassen, pioneer of environmental engineering, dies at 86 (3/97)
- Marine animals shed light on how drug resistance evolved (3/97)
- Kennell Jackson looks at his childhood in Virginia (3/97)
- Wilbur Knorr, professor of philosophy and classics, dies at 51 (3/97)
- Smart product design course has many fans (3/97)
- Gibbons inducted into Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame (3/97)
- Panofsky receives one of world's oldest science medals (3/97)
- Women in the legal profession focus of April 5 conference (3/97)
- "Cloning Sheep; Cloning Humans" available on line (3/97)
- Arrays of hundreds of identical millimeter-sized machines may replace conventional mechanical devices
- Tube technician wins O'Neill Award for supporting research enterprise (12/92)
- THE ONCE AND FUTURE WEB (3/97)
- Stanford University introduces new student health care plan (3/97)
- Students from Britain and Bay Area will debate merits of banning the bomb (3/97)
- Knight Fellowships for journalists win $1.25 million grant (3/97)
April
- Stanford offers admission to 2,604 for Class of 2001 (4/97)
- Reach out and teach: Distance education at Stanford (4/97)
- Stanford student dies in Yosemite hiking accident (4/97)
- Symposium on decision-making to focus on the legacy of Amos Tversky (4/97)
- Learning by teaching (3/97)
- Stanford partner in new effort to revolutionize high-performance computing (4/97)
- More overtime, higher earnings with elimination of California's daily overtime law, study finds (4/97)
- Stanford junior selected for $30,000 Truman scholarship (4/97)
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- Scientists locate two memory processes in human brain (4/97)
- Annual Founders' Day celebration expanded (4/97)
- Four Stanford students named Goldwater Scholars (4/97)
- Students serve as guest curators of Hoover exhibits (4/97)
- Filmmaker and holography expert dies (4/97)
- William L. Taylor to speak at Cubberley Lecture on May 20 (4/97)
- Dreams of a City documentary airs April 14 (4/97)
- Stanford historian Jack Rakove wins Pulitzer Prize (4/97)
- Chilean ambassador to keynote major conference on Chile (4/97)
- The Science Core experiment: Snapshots of the first year (4/97)
- Vandalism at eating club under investigation (4/97)
- African identities to be subject of April 26 conference (4/97)
- Slack key guitar festival at Stanford (4/97)
- Human rights expert will return to Farm as alumni mentor (4/97)
- Founders' Day celebrated in style (4/97)
- No throwing in the towel for women in the legal profession (4/97)
- Former nuclear security negotiator Goodby outlines "loose nuke" issues (4/97)
- Confer brings theater to Bay Area schools (4/97)
- $100 million pledged for Stanford Graduate Fellowships (4/97)
- Project shows native bacteria can destroy widespread pollutant in groundwater (4/97)
- Second Stanford junior becomes Truman Scholar (4/97)
- A Statement by Gerhard Casper on the U.S. News & World Report College Survey
- Managed care for Medicare (4/97)
- Bach's St. Matthew Passion at Stanford April 25 and 26 (4/97)
- Nine faculty named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (4/97)
- Bravman becomes second Bing Centennial Professor (4/97)
- Spotlight on Stanford conductor Karla Lemon (4/97)
- Rankings: Round Two (4/97)
- Philosophers, coaches, athletes to discuss ethics in sports (4/97)
- Steve Sano on the musical threads in his life (4/97)
- Journalism graduate student wins Reader's Digest prize (4/97)
- Knight Journalism Fellows named at Stanford (4/97)
- Former Supreme Court Justice White to judge moot court competition (4/97)
- Hundreds protest anti-gay hate crimes (4/97)
- Events mark acquisition of Saroyan Collection (4/97)
- Sloan Foundation names two from Stanford for research fellowships (4/97)
- Four Stanford faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences (4/97)
- Legislation to replace CIV headed for approval (5/97)
- Software labor shortage could hit low-tech employers, public sector hardest (4/97)
- Euro currency merger, 'Year 2000 problem' add to software labor demand (4/97)
- Stanford's 'Mr. Telephone' passes away (4/97)
May
- Sun's motion may explain cosmic axis (5/97)
- Stanford English professor wins $50,000 literary award (5/97)
- Faculty Senate agrees to new student disciplinary system (5/97)
- Conference on the avant-garde to begin Thursday (5/97)
- Elizabeth Drew to speak at Stanford (5/97)
- Fernald: Turn teaching ideas upside down to design a new course (5/97)
- Tenure decision on anthropologist to be reconsidered (5/97)
- History faculty question a denial of tenure (5/97)
- 70 courses available in new Freshman Seminars Program (5/97)
- Djerassi receives Gibbs Medal (6/97)
June
- Rethinking Africa's future: What the West can do (6/97)
- New Central Asian countries draw attention at Stanford conference (6/97)
- Stanford Channel expands June 1 (6/97)
- Black Community Services Center gets renewed support (6/97)
- Research, real life meet in Counseling Psychology Training Program (6/97)
- Fast squid beats slow limpet with a speedy sodium channel (6/97)
- Ecologists warn President Clinton: Prevent rapid climate change (6/97)
- NATO expansion must proceed slowly despite risks, Goodby says (6/97)
- Anthropologist protests plans for his second tenure review (6/97)
- Geophysicists catch eruption before it starts (6/97)
- Warren Christopher to co-chair ongoing law school fund drive (6/97)
- Stanford announces new technology initiatives (6/97)
- Debate over evidence for Martian life in meteorite rages on (6/97)
- Neutrino experiment inaugurated (6/97)
- A North American lifts her voice for South American street children (6/97)
- Teaching duties found to vary for teaching assistants (6/97)
- Butterflies are back: Rumors of extinction were premature (6/97)
- History professor a founder of Chicano studies (6/97)
- Image science gaining new emphasis (6/97)
- International Knight Fellows named at Stanford (6/97)
- Taylor elected to Royal Society of London (6/97)
- University feels pinch of tight housing, labor markets (6/97)
- Schools list academic initiatives for next year (6/97)
- New study shows university research critical to industry innovation (6/97)
- New vice provost named to reform faculty mentoring (6/97)
- Stanford swaps hazardous halogens for new cool lights (6/97)
- Scholars express cautious optimism about Hong Kong transition (6/97)
- Baccalaureate speaker Fein calls graduates to "holy audacity" against poverty (6/97)
- Class of '97 celebrates last day as seniors (6/97)
- Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer speaks at commencement (6/97)
- Four Discover innovation award finalists have Stanford connections (6/97)
- Students share award for writing on dispute resolution (6/97)
- Performance schedule for Stanford Jazz Workshop (6/97)
- Law School graduates 214 students; honors Professor William B. Rubenstein (6/97)
- Freedman, Taylor honored for undergraduate teaching (6/97)
- Making money and jobs with technology: How the successful say they do it
- Too much of a good thing? (6/97)
- Corporate behavior: Corporations can learn from each other (6/97)
- Equity analysts see through rose-colored glasses (6/97)
- Accounting for insurance loss reserves (6/97)
- Ambidextrous organizations (6/97)
- Computer industry: Low-cost production, high-tech success (6/97)
July
- Journalists discuss clash of ideals, reality in their business (7/97)
- Simms tapped to head American Indian and Alaska Native program (7/97)
- Try this at home: Designing virtual musical instruments (7/97)
- Single polymers: They vibrate harmoniously, unknot unpredictably (/797)
- Stanford and Yamaha pioneer partnership in music synthesis (7/97)
- New approach for producing novel antibiotics demonstrated (7/97)
- Ping-pong diplomacy returns to Stanford after 25 years (7/97)
- Flamenco dance and music take center stage at Stanford (7/97)
- Genes of a "useless weed" reveal clues to plant biology, with a possible bonus: a plastic potato? (7/97)
- Middle school 101 (7/97)
- New approach for producing novel antibiotics demonstrated (7/97)
- TWA 800 explosion may have been caused by electrostatic charge (7/97)
- Economic research center names new director, launches new research initiative (7/97)
- A flying wing could be in your future (7/97)
- The whole world's in our hands, scientists say: It's up to humanity to take responsibility for managing the planet (7/97)
- Political science professor awarded Brazil's Order of Rio Branco (7/97)
- What Schneider told the president about global warming (7/97)
- Marshall Smith nominated for federal education post (7/97)
- Supercomputer simulations may lead to improved jet engines under new DOE program (7/97)
August
- Stanford, Interval announce new "reverse spin-off" from industry: a research center in computational genetics (8/97)
- Nicholas Hoff, pioneering aeronautical engineer, dies (8/97)
- Bollard Club graffiti case resolved (8/97)
- Fabienne McPhail appointed director of Stanford's Women's Center (8/97)
- American SAT, English A-level exam trends reflect changes in sibling environment, psychologist says (8/97)
- "Topping off" ceremony to mark art museum's progress (8/97)
- Earthwatch high schoolers help decipher human genome (8/97)
- 'Success tax' on pensions eliminated (8/97)
- A new index of earthquake risk ranks Boston equal to San Francisco (8/97)
- Faculty Board grants tenure to anthropologist Gupta (8/97)
- Law School marks new professorship with Lizzie Borden 'Trial' (8/97)
- Hoover's Anderson named to panel on higher education costs (8/97)
- A new biochemical link established between stress, sex and dominance (8/97)
- Recent Stanford graduate dies in car accident (8/97)
- Optimizing earthquake mitigation strategies (8/97)
- New design for single-electron devices proposed (8/97)
September
- Symposium to celebrate mathematical giant Ahlfors (9/97)
- Henry Rowen named head of Asia/Pacific Research Center (9/97)
- First class of Asia Pacific Scholars arrives at Stanford (9/97)
- Continuing studies courses offered in fall quarter (9/97)
- Greenspan voices concerns about quality of economic statistics (9/97)
- Program in Jewish Studies receives two sizable gifts (9/97)
- Risk-takers sought for new education program (9/97)
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- New students to arrive Friday, Sept. 19, for orientation (9/97)
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- Tractor drivers soon may say, "Look, Ma! No hands!" (9/97)
- Stanford approves consolidation of hospitals and clinics with UCSF (9/97)
- Business School MBA class most competitive so far (9/97)
- Visiting scholars to teach HumBio majors from personal experience with science, policy (9/97)
- Exhibition of modern prints opens at Stanford Art Gallery (9/97)
- Introductory Seminars are a big draw (9/97)
- Stiffening the spines of large space structures (9/97)
- Stanford physicist nominated for White House advisory post (9/97)
- New endowed deanship for School of Humanities and Sciences (9/97)
- Honors College marks fifth successful year (9/97)
October
- Big Game Bonfire is a tradition of the past (10/97)
- Drell, Zare appointed California Science and Technology Fellows
- Blame, credit for economy apportioned at economic center's birthday conference (10/97)
- Faculty Senate will begin meeting this week (10/97)
- Feigenbaum receives highest civilian honor from Air Force (10/97)
- Introduction to the Humanities for freshmen (10/97)
- Zare receives U.S. and English awards (10/97)
- Frontiers of computer intelligence subject of symposia (10/97)
- Kinnally plunges into life at Stanford (10/97)
- Applying self-adaptive circuitry to improve computer reliability (10/97)
- Annual Alumni Dance Concert scheduled for Oct. 25 (10/97)
- Stanford will participate in new earthquake engineering center (10/97)
- New computer music center comes to Stanford (10/97)
- Competitive electricity markets: Modelers try to anticipate problem spots (10/97)
- New telescope puts Stanford sky gazers in the big leagues (10/97)
- Ma Bell's labs: Were they really as good as their reputation? (10/97)
- Library materials budget is under pressure, Keller reports (10/97)
- Stanford Development Office has another good year (10/97)
- Stanford's Scholes wins Nobel for economics (10/97)
- Experimental course trains a new breed of master builders (10/97)
- Steven Chu wins Nobel Prize for research on interplay of light and atoms (10/97)
- Former Spelman head to give keynote during MLK celebration (10/97)
- Lee receives Packard Fellowship (10/97)
- Stanford's Scholes wins Nobel for economics (10/97)
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- Pulitzer Prize poet Gary Snyder featured in Stanford workshops (10/97)
- Class of '37 breaks fund-raising record (10/97)
- Casper to deliver "State of the University" speech (10/97)
- 1997-98 Frederick E. Terman Fellows named (10/97)
- Board of Trustees elects two, re-elects two (10/97)
- Dollar/yen wars a lingering pox on both countries' houses, economists say (10/97)
- Stanford scientists help design Madagascar park to preserve rare species and sustain the people living nearby (10/97)
- "Frontier geology" uncovers Mesozoic Asia: Continents clashed while dinosaurs roamed (10/97)
- Women from 13 countries to discuss building a more compassionate society at Nov. 2 conference (10/97)
- Casper addresses higher education cost commission (10/97)
- Local populations race to extinction 3 to 8 times faster than whole species (10/97)
- Memorial scheduled for English professor (10/97)
- Orson Cutler Shepard, materials science pioneer, dies (10/97)
- Casper announces initiatives to bolster humanities and arts (10/97)
- Pop music at the core of youth culture, says a soon-to-be-released book (10/97)
- Memorial for Stephen Kline; engineer, interdisciplinary thinker (10/97)
- Roberts first holder of innovative teaching chair (10/97)
- Herbie Hancock to speak on "Music, Technology and Improving Human Lives" (10/97)
November
- Faculty panel to discuss "Race in America" (11/97)
- Memorial will be held for physicist Max Dresden (11/97)
- Piano recital by Adolph Baller students scheduled for Nov. 12 (11/97)
- Chinese leader meets local physicist (11/97)
- Conference on a more "compassionate society" at Stanford (11/97)
- University officials are worried about graduate housing crunch (11/97)
- Students will have more information to use for course guide (11/97)
- Priestly passions: Dean Robert Gregg talks about what's dear to his heart (11/97)
- Pringle of Landor Associates appointed to key development post (11/97)
- New views of 20th-century Mexico to be explored in Nov. 13-15 conference (11/97)
- Susskind wins prestigious Sakurai Prize in theoretical physics (11/97)
- Engineering interns chronicle their experiences at high-tech startups (11/97)
- Cárdenas, Mexico City's first mayor elect, to discuss impact of his election at Stanford on Nov. 20 (11/97)
- Senate confirms Bienenstock as White House adviser (11/97>
- Conference probes 'pragmatic' alternatives to drug war (11/97)
- Computer history exhibit opens in Gates (11/97)
- Don't blame the Trojan Horse: Earthquakes toppled ancient cities, Stanford geophysicist says (11/97)
- Stanford faculty, students discuss race in America (11/97)
- Deborah Rhode defends affirmative action during Lyman lecture (11/97)
- Richter delivers "State of SLAC" address (11/97)
- Stanford concerts scheduled for Nov. 21 and Dec. 1 (11/97)
- Stanford acquires Apple Computer Inc. collections (11/97)
- Shuttle experiment to shed light on future of electronics miniaturization (11/97)
- Why peace agreements often fail to end civil wars (11/97)
- Gumport named one of the Young Leaders of the Academy (11/97)
- Listmakers recognize talent among Law School faculty (11/97)
- Czech prime minister: NATO about ideas, not enemies (11/97)
- Engineering dean: Traditional supercomputers will disappear in a decade (11/97)
- Report calls for changes to undergraduate housing system (11/97)
- Stanford libraries acquire Nathaniel Hawthorne family papers (11/97)
- Lower brain activity in visual cortex associated with dyslexia (11/97)
- "Votes for women" exhibition opens Dec. 1 (11/97)
December
- Holiday concerts scheduled (12/97)
- Parkinson wins oldest American technical award (12/97)
- Governing methods as important as policies, new Mexico City mayor stresses (12/97)
- You heard it through the grapevine: Econ 1 brims with surprises (12/97)
- Continuing Studies Program offers winter classes for adults (12/97)
- History professor has advice for new teachers (12/97)
- Religious studies professor tunes to medieval "conversations" (12/97)
- Pamela Matson elected AAAS fellow (12/97)
- Boston's best-loved structures are most vulnerable to quakes (12/97)
- Radar views of Earth's movements to star at AGU meeting (12/97)
- South Africa's Goldstone to Deliver Law School Lecture (12/97)
- Atmospheric sprites may have streamer structure (12/97)
- Casper decries uncivil tone of rivalries (12/97)
- Falcon to step down as IIS director (12/97)
- Faculty grievance procedures revised (12/97)
- History students win Marshall Scholarships (12/97)
- Richard Snow, educational psychologist, dies at 61 (12/97)
- New committee established to oversee TA training (12/97)
- Former Senator Bradley tries rewriting the 'American narrative'(12/97)
- In Los Angeles even brown smog clouds may have silver linings (12/97)
- Pulitzer Prize-winning history Professor Don E. Fehrenbacher dies (12/97)
- Super sports stadiums becoming bigger expense for taxpayers: 12/97
- Pulitzer Prize-winning history Professor Don E. Fehrenbacher dies (12/97)
- Super sports stadiums becoming bigger expense for taxpayers (12/97)
- Twenty-eight day cycle found in solar neutrinos (12/97)
- Poet Denise Levertov, former creative writing professor, dies (12/97)
- Linguist Greenberg honored for broad contributions to social science (12/97)