2000 News Releases
Below you will find an index to the 2000 news releases from Stanford University.
You also can search the complete library to locate releases by specific criteria. This library contains releases dating from 1991 to the present.
January
- Cultural critic Marjorie Garber to speak on Jan. 11
- University President Gerhard Casper's Statement on the Restructure of Medical Center Leadership
- Martin Luther King Jr. celebration begins Jan. 9
- Historian Lewis Spitz dead at age 77
- Playwright Tom Stoppard to speak on Jan. 10
- Attorney General Reno proposes coordinated LawNet for Internet crime investigations
- Memorial Planned for Sports Nutrition Director Gail Butterfield
- Donald Carlson, former director of community relations, dies
- Wanted: Active Volcanoes from Iceland to the Galapagos
- Fiction writer Allegra Goodman to speak on Jan. 19
- Forget "The Big One": Little Ones Pinpoint Faults Better
- Gordon Wright, authority on European history, dead at 87
- Editors' note: Dawn Levy named News Service science writer
- Evidence builds for strong, new faults in the Mojave Desert
- Hoover Institution acquires papers of philosopher Eric Hoffer
- Robert Kinnally, dean of admission, to resign in July
- Keith Baker named cognizant dean for the humanities
- Africanist Robert Farris Thompson to speak on Jan. 28
- Economist says civil rights movement was economic success
- New findings support prospect of life on Jupiter's moon Europa
- Africanist Robert Farris Thompson to speak on Jan. 28
- Innovative nanotechnology is used to detect poison gases
February
- Stanford physical chemist receives National Medal of Science
- Stanford receives Technology Licensing Achievement Award
- Stanford University plans new facility for Jasper Ridge Biological
- Scientists keep searching for a signal from Mars Polar Lander
- Faculty and staff perform in annual talent show Feb. 4
- Economists positive but cautious about 'new economy' reports
- HighWire Press ensures that online publications don't get lost in cyberspace
- Lesbian-feminist writer Gloria Anzaldua to speak on Feb. 17
- New music ensemble to perform Feb. 9
- Will fighting crickets unlock the mystery of human depression?
- El Nino's impact may extend to the shores of East Africa
- Special effects will be focus of Feb. 11-12 symposium
- Will fighting crickets unlock the mystery of human depression?
- Study offers early look at how Internet is changing daily life: 2/00
- Chemistry teacher captivates young minds with lab theatrics
- Computer music concert features works by Stanford composers
- Trustees give preliminary approval for new health service building
- Trustees set tuition, room and board rates for 2000-2001
- Computer music concert features works by Stanford composers
- Artists, scholars and engineers look at special effects
- Pianist Cecil Lytle performs black composers' works Feb. 24
- Steve Biko's son to speak about his father's legacy on Feb. 17
- United Nation's Annan to Speak at 2000 Commencement
- Sweeping U.S. patents may threaten food supply, says Barton
- Registration for continuing studies courses begins Feb. 28
- Hofstadter 2000 Lecture features Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist
- Garbo-esque neutrinos may challenge Standard Model
- Physicists thrive with paperless publishing
- Global warming: It's not an exact science, but it's science all the same
- Djerassi's science-in-fiction explores sex and reproduction
- Filmmaker Haile Gerima to speak at screening of his latest work
- Kapilow and St. Lawrence String Quarter in concert Feb. 25
- Anthropologist tracks transnational movements of India's culture
- Stanford expands its connections to South Asia
- Researchers find white matter defect link to dyslexia
- New cryogenic detectors probe recent evidence for dark matter particles: 2/00
March
- HighWire Press publishers offer more than 137,000 free online articles
- New head of research appointed at SLAC
- David Kelley elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Freed China scholar believes Stanford's jailed scholar both ill and innocent
- Noted logician K. Jon Barwise dies
- Sociologists describe how hospitals, doctors fell from grace
- Stanford symposium to explore artificial intelligence frontiers
- Geologists redefine the Earth's "forbidden zone"
- McCaffery named president and CEO of Stanford Management Company
- Environmental scientists clean up toxic dirt: 3/00
- Steinbeck exhibition on display through April 30: 3/00
- Literary critic Wolfgang Iser to speak at Stanford on April 3: 3/00
- Stanford offers admission to 2,391 for Class of 2004: 3/00
- Sex-change forum to be held at Stanford on April 13: 3/00
- Conference marks acquisition of Hebrew collection: 3/00
- Cadence donates $2.1 million to Stanford computer lab: 3/00
April
- Provost John L. Hennessy named Stanford's tenth president: 4/3/00
- Nobel Prize winner and laser co-inventor to give Bunyan Lecture: 4/00
- General consuls of Chile, Ecuador, Spain to speak April 10: 4/00
- Poet Louise Gluck to give a reading on April 17: 4/00
- Charter schools advocate to speak April 12: 4/00
- Scholar Hua Di's conviction in China overturned on appeal: 4/00
- Creatures from the deep fight cancer and warn of environmental hazards: 4/00
- Strange "spin cycle" inside the sun may explain sunspots, solar flares and other mysteries: 4/00
- Theory begets practice: 4/00
- Professor David Kennedy wins Pulitzer Prize for history: 4/00
- Contemporary Japanese ceramics featured in new Cantor Arts Center exhibit: 4/00
- Poet Lorna Dee Cervantes to read her work on April 18: 4/00
- American and Russian students try grassroots diplomacy: 4/00
- UCLA's Deborah Stipek named dean of the School of Education: 4/00
- John Spreiter, professor emeritus of applied mechanics, dies: 4/00
- Universal portfolios take investors back to the future: 4/00
- Admitted students get advice on how to digest The Farm experience: 4/00
- Job satisfaction, not millions, should be goal, says Andreessen: 4/00
- Balkan scholars honor 'Uncle' Wayne: 4/00
- Computer science workshop focuses on building better databases: 4/00
- Stanford Graduate Fellowships program meets $200 million goal: 4/00
- Stanford to launch new humanities laboratory: 4/00
- Officials of Chile, Ecuador, Spain lecture on campus: 4/00
- Nobel poet Czeslaw Milosz to read on April 25: 4/00
- Students and mentors praise Stanford Graduate Fellowships: 4/00
- Sloan Foundation awards fellowships to three Stanford researchers: 4/00
- Cyberlaw expert leaving Harvard for Stanford: 4/00
- Five Stanford scholars receive Guggenheim Fellowships : 4/00
- Stanford launches Asian Religions and Cultures initiative: 4/00
- Executive compensation: why companies pay the way they do: 4/00
- Double bubble no trouble for Stanford professor, undergraduate: 4/00
- Five Irish poets to read at Stanford on May 4: 4/00
- Knight Journalism Fellows named at Stanford: 4/00
- Stanford to launch new program in ocean sciences: 4/00
- The 'real deal' about 'new deal' Social Security: 4/00
- Richard Shevell, aeronautics and astronautics professor emeritus, dies
May
- Six faculty named members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences: 5/00
- Stanford offers full slate of Cinco de Mayo events all week: 5/00
- Former Stanford vice president Kenneth Cuthbertson dies: 5/00
- University to develop conservation plan for Dish area: 5/00
- Milton, Rose Friedman honored by Koret Foundation: 5/00
- Transsexuals: 5/00
- Gift of $20 million to support women faculty and students in engineering and sciences: 5/00
- Conductor Karla Lemon leads Beethoven's No. 9 on May 18, 19: 5/00
- Online news readers explore news broadly, but are less tantalized by pictures than expected: 5/00
- International Knight Fellows Named at Stanford: 5/00
- Stanford grassland project seeks answers to the riddle of global climate change: 5/00
- Teacher uses images to make fluid mechanics anything but dry: 5/00
- Seven from Stanford elected to National Academy of Sciences: 5/00
- Public meeting to discuss restrictions to noncitizen participation in research: 5/00
- Fool's gold may provide clues to the evolution of life on Earth: 5/00
- Shifting views of children who work or live on the street: 5/00
- Contemplating what citizenship means beyond documents: 5/00
- Allegations of election fraud in Russia were ignored, scholar says
- Scientific discovery: Why aluminum doesn't rust: 5/00
- SLAC honored for community service: 5/00
- Block elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences: 5/00
- Young adults have double standards about sexual infidelity: 5/00
- Stanford files suit against company for infringement : 5/00
- Restriction puts satellite research in a holding pattern: 5/00
- MacArthur Foundation renews grant for peace and security studies: 5/00
- U.S. lead negotiator on Taiwan to speak at Stanford May 24: 5/00
- 20 million gift will fund new biology and chemistry building: 5/00
- Internet grading service reduces tedium for teachers, students: 5/00
- Physicists roast and toast Susskind: 5/00
- Stanford launches Pacific Rim disaster initiative: 5/00
- About 1,600 -- or 66.5 percent of those admitted -- accept admission to Class of 2004: 5/00
- AGU conference: 5/00
- The first wave: Bio-X grants $7 million to faculty for new research facilities: 5/00
- List of Bio-X Grants and Awardees: 5/30
- Cybercamps give students a head start on high tech: 5/00
- Laboring in obscurity is what risk management's all about: 5/00
June
- Advice on spreading high-tech entrepreneurship to Asia: 6/00
- Physicists hope to simulate a black hole event horizon in the lab: 6/00
- Linguistic theory to be basis for intelligent e-mail response product: 6/00
- All the world's a laboratory to a globetrotting geologist: 6/00
- Stanford study supports novel rainforest protection plan: 6/00
- Spectroscopy takes aim at an unsolved electronics mystery: 6/00
- "Olympics" for student entrepreneurs June 19-22 at Stanford: 6/00
- Casper receives honorary university degrees: 6/00
- Annan urges graduates to be stewards of globe's natural environment: 6/00
- Jeff Willick, physics assistant professor, dies in accident: 6/00
- University chaplain at Tufts named Stanford's dean for religious life: 6/00
- Student entrepreneurs win big in global challenge
- Scientists reveal new folding pathways for a single molecule
- Do fish farms really add to the world's supply of fish?: 6/00
- James Bettinger named director of Knight Fellowships Program: 6/00
- Researchers demonstrate the strange behavior of bent nanowires
July
- Swarthmore College admissions dean to head Admission and Financial Aid: 7/00
- Putting a price tag on paradise: 7/00
- The end of the line for the assembly line?: 7/00
- Computers with voices: Students explore how people respond: 7/00
- University trustee Vernon Anderson dies: 7/00
- Stanford Humanities Laboratory announces research projects for 2000-01: 7/00
- B Factory Physics
August
- Scientists discover key ingredient in sexual reproduction: 08/00
- Stanford hosts NASA's summer Astrobiology Academy: 8/00
- Stanford Dish area to close Aug. 14-31: 8/00
- New director named for the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences: 8/00
- Publishing executive with experience in print and new media to head Stanford University Press: 8/00
- Don Winbigler, former dean of students, dies at 91
- Reporters get a crash course in covering technology: 8/00
- Managing the new economy demands new skills, focus: 8/00
- Earthquake conference will focus on the San Andreas fault: 8/00
September
- Paul Ehrlich challenges evolutionary psychology and the 'selfish gene' in his new book, Human Natures: 9/00
- Video of Paul Ehrlich on his new book, Human Natures: 9/00
- Video Clip of Paul Ehrlich on his new book, Human Natures: 9/00
- Despite new technology, earthquake prediction remains elusive: 9/00
- Brains need elbow room too: Workshop stresses creativity skills: 9/00
- School of Education receives major grants to endow center to study youth
- Sourcebook 2000: 9/00
- Discovery of armored viruses may inspire new designs for nanotechnology: 9/00
- Stanford University to greet new students Friday, Sept. 22: 9/00
- Defense Department awards Stanford nearly $5.3 million for a "revolutionary" biosciences project: 9/00
- New advanced materials laboratory dedicated in Geballe's honor: 9/00
- Stanford Report launches redesigned web page, new URL: 9/00
- Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, Yale to invest $12 million in Distance Learning Venture; Herbert Allison to head effort: 9/00
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory receives $6 million grant to decipher protein structures: 9/00
- New Madrid earthquakes still threaten the central United States, scientists conclude: 9/00
- Stanford, City of Palo Alto Propose New Plan To Provide Faculty Housing and Preserve Golf Course - 9/00
October
- Bio-X awards $3 million in grants for imaginative interdisciplinary research and education projects: 10/00
- Bio-X grant recipient explores link between molecular chaperones and serious diseases: 10/00
- Stanford, City of Palo Alto announce proposal to provide sites for new middle school, city community center: 10/00
- Law School panel to discuss "Making the Most of the Internet Economy"
- Donald Kennedy leads Science into the 21st century: 10/00
- Art Walker profile: 10/00
- Stanford collaborates in Utah balloon study of weather and smog: 10/00
- John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center launches distinguished lecture series Oct. 25: 10/00
- Stanford author sees major gap between changes in the workplace and the policies needed to sustain social stability : 10/00
- Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader to speak on campus: 10/00
- Stanford launches five-year, $1 billion Campaign for Undergraduate Education: 10/00
- SLAC wins Department of Energy award for project management: 10/00
- The Flaw of Averages: 10/00
- Scientists discover volcanic activity in the Galapagos with the aid of satellite radar: 10/00
November
- Dance Division presents 'Dancing: Bringin' It Home,' Saturday, Nov. 11: 11/00
- Visualizing the invisible: Diode lasers shine light on tricky detection problems: 11/00
- Quantum leap in Internet security: single photons on demand: 11/00
- Yvor Winters Centenary Symposium to be held Nov. 16-18: 11/00
- Clinton names Fermi Award winners: Sidney Drell honored: 11/00
- Orgish wins O'Neill Award for contributions to research: 11/00
- Albert Guerard -- novelist, critic and devoted teacher -- is dead at 86: 11/00
- Tongue Smell Color tells of relationship between white man, black woman: 11/00
- Global warming: lessons taught by snails and crabs: 11/00
- '20th Century Lives,' a lecture series, kicks off Thursday: 11/00
- Colloquium to explore the medieval senses: 11/00
- Finding a market for 'ecosystem services': 11/00
- Baldridges honored by the American Cetacean Society: 11/00
- 'Riskful thinking,' 'elementary pleasures' matter to Gumbrecht.
- Beasley to step down as dean of Humanities and Sciences: 11/00
December
- Scientists, archaeologists and historians will unravel the mystery of Egypt's sunken cities: 12/00
- Philip Pizzo named dean of Stanford's School of Medicine: 12/00
- Psychologist Philip Zimbardo elected APA president for 2002: 12/00
- Endowment for French studies approaches $100,000, thanks to gifts: 12/00
- The art and science of predicting volcanic eruptions: 12/00
- Moses Abramovitz, leading student of economic growth, dies at 88 : 12/00
- News Backgrounder Duke photonics center will help state cultivate a 'photon forest' through corporate partnerships, research and education: 12/00
- The Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics at Stanford: 12/00
- Dawn Garcia named deputy director of Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists: 12/00
- Leslie Hume elected to Board of Trustees: 12/00
- $50 million gift to launch centers for advanced photonics and communications systems at Stanford and Duke: 12/00
- Stanford student Roxanne Joyal named Rhodes Scholar: 12/00
- Stanford offers admission to 520 Early Decision applicants: 12/00
- Appellate court upholds university's suspension of professor: 12/00
- Scientists track phosphate to better understand global warming: 12/00