2004 News Releases
Below you will find an index to the 2004 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 29
December 14
- Stanford and Google to make library books available online
- Geophysicists debate the cause of hotspots
- Stanford Law School receives $3 million from John M. Olin Foundation
- Stanford University reports FY 2004 financial results
December 13
December 10
December 8
- Stanford biologist working to restore native forests to Hawaii
- Researchers discover direct link between agricultural runoff and massive algal blooms in the sea
- Stanford Libraries acquires Silicon Valley documentary photographs
December 7
December 2
- Contests motivate top students in large courses, says award-winning teacher
- William Saroyan writing prize expands to include non-fiction award
November 30
November 23
- Awakuni to depart Stanford for the University of Hawaii
- Youth health advocate Sarah Schulman named Rhodes Scholar
November 22
November 17
November 9
- Former copy center manager arrested on suspicion of grand theft
- Disarm nukes or face more dangerous parity through proliferation, ElBaradei says
November 5
November 4
November 3
- Stanford Environmental Molecular Science Institute will study pollutants, one molecule at a time
- Biography revisits Fred Terman’s roles in engineering, Stanford and Silicon Valley
November 1
- Onetime acting dean and longtime Business School administrator Samuel 'Pete' Pond dead at 90
- Computer scientists really are engineers, honor society concludes
- A year after opening of Clark Center, collaborative projects (and Peet’s coffee) brewing
October 28
October 27
- Psychology expert to discuss Abu Ghraib, war on terror
- Center receives $4 million from Annenberg Foundation
October 26
October 22
October 20
October 13
- U.S. Supreme Court will strike federal sentencing guidelines as unconstitutional, law experts say
- IRWG to tackle tough gender questions affecting universities and society, new director says
- Deliberative Democracy reinvigorates 'We the People'
- Upcoming conferences focus on families and boys
October 12
- Decaying antenna farm hints at glorious radioastronomy past
- Engineering alumni meet for a playdate
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Stanford Environmental Sustainability Conference Oct. 14-16
- 'Tardy' earthquake in central California yields treasure trove of seismic data
- Flu vaccine distribution limited due to national shortage
- Campus concert in memory of alumnus Daniel Pearl
October 11
October 8
October 6
October 5
October 4
September 30
- Stanford, UC-Santa Barbara to create digital repository for Library of Congress
- New Stanford center probes nanoscale material
September 28
- Daphne Koller named MacArthur Fellow
- Stanford researchers get $20 million to establish center for physics-based simulations of biological structures
September 27
September 24
September 22
- Three Stanford researchers win president's early career award
- Aurora Forum launches year with debate about dissent
- Children’s Center of the Stanford Community plans fundraising auction Saturday
September 21
September 20
September 16
September 15
- Staff hiring freeze lifted, but prudence still a high priority
- Stanford University endowment report issued by Stanford Management Company
- Memorial set for lecturer Kathleen Namphy
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Convocation ceremony to be held Sept. 20
September 2
- Joel Ferziger, pioneer in thermoscience, dies at 67
- SLAC will continue to play a major role in designing the International Linear Collider, lab director says
- Community Watch: Stanford receives Green Business certification
August 27
August 26
August 13
August 12
August 9
August 4
August 2
July 28
- Casanova or caveman: Scientists isolate nerve cells that choreograph male fly's courtship behavior
- Ecologist calls for creation of an international panel to assess human behavior
July 27
July 21
July 19
- Shedding light on luminosity
- Antimatter experiment hits a key milestone
- Art meets science: Renaissance painting inspires interdisciplinary collaboration and unusual museum exhibit
July 9
July 1
June 28
June 18
June 14
June 11
June 10
June 8
June 7
June 4
June 2
- Continents played key role in collapse and regeneration of Earth's early greenhouse, geologists say
- Scholar gets visa; makes it to meeting
May 27
May 24
May 21
May 19
May 18
May 17
May 14
May 12
May 10
May 7
May 5
May 4
- Conference to focus on school-related stress
- MEDIA ADVISORY
- New Yorker editor to discuss news media since Sept. 11, 2001
- Staying between the lines: Automotive innovations promise improved safety
May 3
- Korean Studies at Stanford boosted by $2 million gift from Korea's Pantech Group
- McMurtry elected chair of the Board of Trustees
April 30
April 28
- Harry Sanders, former director of campus planning, dead at 89
- Twelve journalists selected as 2004-05 U.S. Knight Fellows
April 27
April 23
- Scientists develop sophisticated new simulation method for protein folding
- Scientists post a lower speed limit for magnetic switching
April 20
- Outta here! After four Earth-bound decades, gravity experiment launches
- Ancient pebbles provide new details about primeval atmosphere
- Stanford launches Institute for the Environment to promote creative solutions for a sustainable world
April 19
- Stanford researchers use today's technology to understand yesterday's treasures
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Gravity Probe B launch scrubbed, rescheduled for tomorrow
April 16
April 15
April 14
April 13
April 12
- Gardner Center receives $1 million gift to support youth development in Redwood City
- Richard Gross, longtime social studies teacher, dead at 83
April 8
April 6
- French Professor Brigitte Cazelles dies at 60
- Scientists question reports of massive ant supercolonies in California and Europe
- Harry Frankfurt to deliver 2004 Tanner Lectures
- Brown v. Board of Education: A 50th anniversary symposium
April 2
March 31
March 29
March 26
March 23
March 22
March 16
- Nobel laureate Wieman to discuss 'quantum weirdness' at Hofstadter Lecture
- Posters from the Northern Ireland conflict on display at Hoover Institution
March 12
- Aerogels may spawn life-like lab-on-a-chip devices and better model membranes
- Stanford graduate students challenge White House handling of environmental science
- Eight Stanford scientists receive Sloan Fellowships
March 10
- Scientists confirm phenomenon of falling beer bubbles
- Supreme Court Justice O'Connor to deliver Commencement address
March 9
- Stanford team invents scheme for stopping light on chip
- Susan Okin, feminist political theorist, dead at 57
March 8
March 7
March 3
March 2
March 1
February 26
February 24
- Faculty Senate approves measure targeting for-profit journal publishers
- Summit to host Alan Greenspan, economists from around the globe
February 23
- Stanford's spacecraft design course among first educational offerings at new Space Technology Center
February 20
February 18
- Former Provost James N. Rosse dead at 72 of sudden illness
- Parkinson inducted to National Inventors Hall of Fame
February 17
- Cantwell and Street elected to National Academy of Engineering
- SLAC inaugurates lecture series for the public
- Would you like a receipt with that election? Technologists advocate a paper trail for electronic voting machines
- Models help estimate children's exposure to toxins
- Scientists, lawyers discuss decision-making amid uncertainty
- International science team tracks ocean predators around the globe
February 10
- Board of Trustees approves tuition rate hikes
- Series of events devoted to the late Russian writer Isaac Babel
February 9
- U.S. push for diesel poses risk to public health, scientists say
- Turning sound into art, DeMarinis brings to life 'hybrids of past and present'
- Computer scientists develop tool for mining genomic data
February 4
February 3
January 30
January 29
January 28
January 27
- Panel to explore the role of the black church
- Heinz Eulau, pioneer in political behavior research, dead at 88
- Two Stanford professors' books nominated for top literary award
January 26
January 23
January 20
- Stanford launches public lecture series on genomic medicine beginning Jan. 26
- Gnostic Gospels author Elaine Pagels to speak Jan.26-29
January 15
- "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?" author to speak Jan. 22 at Stanford
- Six shuttle passengers injured in collision with construction crane
January 14
January 13
- James Robinson, Stanford Report editor, dies at 44
- Stanford University Program on Energy and Sustainable Development receives grant from BP
- William Reynolds, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, dies