May 12 stories

Headlines of the articles that appear in the May 12, 2004, print edition of Stanford Report, organized by page number:

Page 1:

• Conference looks at ways to help stressed out kids

• Right excels at shaping discourse with language, linguists say

Page 2:

• Environmental program awards grants

• Letter to the editor: Pfefferbaum's 'neglect of academic duties' case disputed by colleague

• Honors and awards

• Power outage hits campus

Page 3:

• 'What matters to me? Texts,' says English Professor Emerita Diane Middlebrook

• Hennessy, UC President Dynes each awarded $1 million Koret Foundation prize

• Lilly Poetry Prize winner to read work

• Two events to commemorate the birth of the Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda

Page 4:

• Physicist Kip Thorne to lecture on origin of universe, black holes

• Research team nets $6.3 million grant for optical router research

• Synchroton radiation impacts discussed

• In Print & On the Air

Page 5:

• Cancer symposium takes a personalized approach

• Attacking bipolar disorder early boosts outcomes

• Ethics proposals to vie for grants

• Med School to host HBO film screening

Page 6:

• Panic disorder's passage from mothers to daughters to be studied in trial

• Transplant rejection averted in animals by simple exposure to ultraviolet light

• Five Questions for Linda Giudice

Page 7:

• As the sun gets higher, public health events offer free skin cancer screening

• Students advocate policy changes in fast food, prescription drugs

• Media Monitor

Page 8-9:

• Amy J. Blue Awards:

   

  • Esther Phillips: 'Never has a bad day'

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  • Elaine Ray: Calm center of a hurricane

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  • Neil Hamilton: A 'responsive saint' who helped ease the pains of the Oracle system

Page 10:

• Opportunity Center being built near campus to stop the 'spiral' of homelessness

• Economics, pathology scholars elected to National Academy of Sciences

• Ronnie Lott donates $1 million for MLK research institute

Page 11:

• Twain scholars headed to the Farm to dissect author's life

• Stanford water supply system to be tested for lead and copper

• Newsstand

Page 16:

• Former Palo Alto mayor named director of community relations

• Technology training courses offered online by ITSS

• Cardinal Chronicle