2003 News Releases
Below you will find an index to the 2003 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.
December 17
- Stanford University reports FY 2003 financial results
- Dennis Powers, former director of Hopkins Marine Station, dies at 65
December 11
December 10
December 8
December 5
- New dean of students selected after eight-month search
- From Stanford to the Amazon: Professor uses satellites to protect forests, global climate
- Scientists solve puzzle of how kinesin motor molecules walk -- or limp -- across cells
December 2
- Five students selected as Marshall scholars
- Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
- Credit where credit is due: The controversial decision to remove Ed Ricketts as co-author of The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- George Orwell symposium set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3
- Scientists track mysterious squid in the Sea of Cortez to protect local fishery
December 1
November 26
November 25
November 24
- Scientists launch San Andreas Fault Observatory at Dept
- Two Stanford students win Rhodes scholarships
November 20
November 19
- Multidisciplinary team develops devices to restore vision
- Islam scholar advocates broader tolerance, pluralism
- Posters depict birth of Iran's Islamic republic
- Participants sought for April 4 Community Day
November 18
November 12
- Author Tobias Wolff to read from new novel Nov. 17 at Stanford
- Stanford prepares to launch round two of 'Discovering Dickens'
- French ambassador to speak at inauguration of the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
November 11
November 5
November 4
- Stanford alumni 'bringin' it home' for annual dance concert
- Thomas McBride, former Law School associate dean, dies at 73
October 30
- Researchers create 'supersized' molecule of DNA
- Five Stanford scholars elected 2003 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
October 28
- Hudson Valley hauntings studied in new book by English lecturer
- Mathematics Professor Emerita Mary Sunseri dies
- Computing with a human touch: Stanford researcher reflects on a career spent in artificial intelligence
October 27
October 22
- 'East Wing': The inside story of life and work inside the Clark Center
- Bio-X research extends far beyond Clark Center
- Bio-X: Innovative but hardly alone
- Jonathan Berger makes music for life
- Bush awards National Medal of Science to chemist John Brauman
October 20
- Stanford joins federal center to lessen aircraft noise, emissions
- Forum to examine notion of 'character' in American presidency
October 15
- Stanford records archival history of the GATT
- Hopkins Marine Station to hold open house Saturday, Oct. 25
- Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen M. Sullivan announces decision to complete deanship at close of five-year term; will direct new Stanford constitutional law center
October 13
October 7
October 6
October 1
- Second Annual Daniel Pearl Music Day set for Oct. 9 in Memorial Church
- Stanford University endowment report issued by Stanford Management Company
September 30
September 29
- HighWire Press wins award for service to nonprofit publishing
- Overhaul may bring better, faster Internet to 100 million homes
September 23
September 22
- Salmon farms pose significant threat to salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest, researchers find
- Project addresses managing sensitive information in a wired world
September 18
- Long-term natural gas supplies should meet growing demand in coming decades, study finds
- Abbasi family endows new Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford
September 17
September 16
- MEDIA ADVISORY:Convocation ceremony to be held Sept. 18
- Nishi named research director of Center for Integrated Systems
- Third annual Community Day at Stanford scheduled for April 4, 2004
September 11
- Schwarzenegger ahead of Bustamante in Internet survey on California recall vote
- Appendix to the Stanford University/Knowledge Networks California Ballot Survey
September 10
- Alan Strain dead at 79
- Trost and Du Bois to receive national awards from the American Chemical Society
September 9
September 8
August 20
August 11
August 7
August 6
- Continuing Studies offers wide range of Autumn Quarter courses
- 'Philosophy Talk' tackles the big questions (not engine trouble)
August 5
August 4
July 29
July 24
- Whale populations are too low to resume commercial hunting, geneticists find
- The "fixed" hotspot that created Hawaii was not stationary after all, study finds
July 23
- Bio-X symposium will be held at the Clark Center on July 31
- Everything is Illuminated author wins Saroyan Writing Prize
- Kona turtles and judges of the reef
July 22
- Committee for Dish recreation use issues final report
- School of Engineering to host "Future of Air and Space Travel" symposium July 31
- Edward Teller wins Presidential Medal of Freedom
July 21
- Lucio Ruotolo, longtime professor of English, dies at 76
- Panel to discuss whether news media promote irrational fear
- The Rev. Scotty McLennan draws on literature for sermon series
July 16
July 14
July 9
July 3
July 2
June 30
- Leonard Ortolano appointed interim director of Stanford's Haas Center for Public Service
- Coit D. Blacker named director of Stanford's Institute for International Studies
June 23
June 18
- McCarthy receives Benjamin Franklin Medal
- Stanford Law School to co-host panel on jurisdiction and the Internet in a global marketplace
June 16
June 13
June 12
June 11
- Stanford, city of Palo Alto announce offer to provide new athletic fields, housing
- Experts say SARS underlines need for global biodefense
June 9
June 6
June 4
- Stanford to form presidential committee on workplace policies
- Women groped by man on bicycle; no injuries reported, police say
June 3
- Stanford prepares for visitors from SARS-affected areas and creates device to track students' SARS exposure
- Students tackle terrorism, illiteracy, disaster relief and more in social entrepreneurship contest
- Jazz Fest line-up includes Branford Marsalis, Poncho Sanchez
- Sadako Ogata discusses humanitarian assistance during war and peace
June 2
May 30
May 28
- Tessier-Lavigne receives 2003 Robert Dow Neuroscience Award
- Scholar discusses educational benefits of Socratic method
- SEC Chairman William H. Donaldson to deliver opening remarks at Stanford Law School's 9th annual Directors' College
- Bangladeshi journalist selected Senior Research Fellow in Knight Fellowships program
- Students design campus for Guatemalan street children
May 27
May 23
May 21
May 20
May 16
May 14
- Affirmative action in university admissions
- International Knight Fellows named at Stanford
- Konrad B. Krauskopf, pioneer geochemist, dies at age 92
May 13
- Continuing Studies has educational cure for summertime blues
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects seven Stanford scholars
May 9
May 8
May 7
- Shankar, Marsalis, Sedaris among names on tap for Lively Arts 2003-04 season
- Professor of Spanish joins actors Spacey, Eastwood on film board
- Seven Stanford faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 5
May 1
April 30
- Documentary portrays harsh lives of refugee children in Pakistan
- "Work stinks": It's more than just a slogan among ants, researchers find
- Carstensen named 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient
April 29
- Knight Journalism Fellows named at Stanford
- 'Public Life in a Wired World' subject of May 5 Aurora Forum
April 28
- Exploratorium to honor Pief Panofsky
- Stanford to host "Engineering the Future" symposium
- Symposium on sustainable manufacturing makes a case for green business
- SLAC experiment identifies new subatomic particle
April 24
April 23
April 22
- "Spring Migration" dance concert kicks off Friday, April 25
- "Signed Design" exhibition on view through May 4 in Art Gallery
April 21
- April 27 memorial set for computer scientist Bob Engelmore
- Philanthropist George Kozmetsky makes $6 million gift to Stanford
April 17
April 16
- Panels assess broader implications of the war in Iraq and its aftermath
- Chyba to deliver Bunyan Lecture on search for life in outer space
- Beefed up disease surveillance overseas key to guarding Americans from bioterrorism attacks at home, scientist argues
April 14
April 11
April 9
April 8
- Controversial ex-U.S. surgeon general to speak at Aurora Forum
- Stanford University statement on SARS
- Tony, meet Maria: West Side Story opens this week at Stanford
Aprl 7
- New York Times editorial page editor to deliver Knight Lecture
- Walter Hewlett joins Board of Trustees
April 4
- Residential & Dining Enterprises to manage Tresidder Memorial Union food service operations
- Stanford kicks off Queer Awareness Days celebration
- Cardinal Ballet licensed to perform parts of Balanchine piece
- Speedy elephants use a biomechanical trick to 'run' like Groucho
- Beyond 'pi in the sky': Andrei Linde lauds the new era of precision cosmology
- Odyssey of an escaped slave who fought in the U.S. Navy against the Confederacy brought to life by great-grandson
April 1
- Dish hours extended for hikers and joggers
- Researchers use haptics -- the science of touch -- to 'feel' objects that don't exist
- Cardinal Classic dance competition swings into action April 5
March 31
- Stanford Community Law Clinic to hold open house April 2
- A fun, eclectic program awaits visitors to Community Day, April 6
March 28
March 27
March 26
March 19
- Sarah Billington and Alexandria Boehm named Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professors
- White House names Stanford's Robert Gray among nation's top engineering mentors
- War in Iraq may torpedo America's wealth, says Stanford Business School study
March 17
- Anthrax threat needs aggressive government action plan, say researchers
- Wolfgang Kuhn, professor of music and education, dies at 88
March 14
March 12
March 11
- Cockroaches inspire the next generation of legged robots
- Rolf Faste, associate professor of mechanical engineering, dies
- Engineer's work helps government prioritize terror risks
- Stanford scholar looks at risk and reality
- Knight of the Burning Pestle revived for 100th anniversary
March 5
- As Pablo Neruda centennial approaches, projects take shape
- East Palo Alto YMCA named beneficiary of Community Day at Stanford Fun Run/Walk
- Student Activity Space Task Force issues interim report
March 4
- Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo to speak at 2003 Commencement
- Stanford Community Law Clinic to provide students with real-life experience; serve needy clients
March 3
February 25
- Archaeological items featured at Community Day; contest launched to guess functions of century-old items
- Optical trap provides new insights into motor molecules -- nature's ultimate nanomachines
- Stanford-Singapore Partnership augments environmental engineering programs
- Director's cut of Alambrista! to make Bay Area premiere Saturday, March 1, at Stanford
February 24
- Bookstore reverses incorrect charges
- Dyslexic children's brains operate more like those of normal readers following training designed to help them hear sounds in words, new study finds
- Six Stanford scientists receive Sloan Fellowships
February 19
February 18
- Garcia-Molina elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Scientist looks at less to find out more about quantum materials
- Genetics may help solve mysteries of human evolution
- AAAS 'goes Hollywood' to dramatize the perils of communicating science in a pressure cooker
- Marine biologists probe 'black box' mysteries of the sea
- Sex and gender scientists explore a revolution in evolution
- First Daniel Pearl Memorial Journalism Intern named
- GPS pioneer Bradford Parkinson awarded Draper Prize in engineering
- Stanford joins MIT in amicus brief on importance of diversity in science and technology education
February 13
February 12
- Munger elected to Board of Trustees
- Exhibition traces instantaneous-photography movement
- Archaeology, social change, Arab-Israeli conflict on Continuing Studies' spring menu
- Stanford acquires the historic Hebrew Library of Copenhagen's Jewish community
- Trustees set tuition, room and board rates for 2003-04
February 11
February 10
February 5
- Anthropological puzzle: When does culture affect behavior?
- Natural Man opens Feb. 13 at Pigott Theater
- New book explores fate of Polish women exiled to the Soviet Union during World War II
- Professor Joel Beinin: Moral commitment OK in classroom
- Forum to focus on Americans' mixed feelings about work
February 4
February 3
January 30
January 29
- Pilobolus, St. Lawrence collaborate on new work
- Against backdrop of depressed arts funding, Stanford commissions increase
- First-ever online deliberative poll reveals informed opinions on worldwide issues
- Human Rights advocate Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, to deliver 2003 Tanner Lectures at Stanford
- Twenty student groups awarded $1,000 grants from the Office of the President and Provost for Community Day
January 27
- Stephen Wolfram explains "A New Kind of Science" Feb. 10
- Does the academic study of international relations matter in the real world of foreign policymaking?
January 24
January 23
January 22
- Tap legend Fayard Nicholas coming to Stanford for residency
- Cosmic inflation theorist Alan Guth to deliver Hofstadter Lecture
January 21
- Dean of Students Marc Wais leaves Stanford for VP post at New York University; Chris Griffith to step in as acting dean
- Stanford to host multifaith conference on religious conflict and mediation
- Buckminster Fuller conversations continue starting Jan. 22
- China can help defuse the nuclear crisis with North Korea, William Perry says
January 16
January 15
- Stanford to receive $7.5 million gift for particle astrophysics and cosmology institute
- Linguist Nunberg discusses problems of Internet filters
- Lecture series to focus on current issues in contemporary China
- Synchrotron-based spectroscopy shows whether to clean up -- or leave be -- some of America's worst Superfund sites
- Martin Luther King, Jr., celebration to include Freedom Train, talks, church services
January 14
January 13
January 10
January 8
- Gabriel A. Almond, preeminent political scientist, dies at 91
- Exhibition featuring works by JosÈ Bedia to open at Cantor Center
- Literatures, languages division establishes lecture series
- Experts call for new higher education research agenda
January 7
January 6
- Angela Davis, Richard Rorty, Gordon Wood to discuss national pride, shame
- Stanford marks JosÈ Posada's 150th birthday with exhibition of graphic artist's work