2006 News Releases
Below you will find an index to the 2006 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 20
December 18
December 15
- Stanford University reports FY 2006 financial results
- Admission offered to 750 students through Single-Choice Early Action
December 12
December 11
- Flexible electronics advance boosts performance, manufacturing
- Climate scientists to discuss the chilling consequences of nuclear war
- Botulism study could lead to new vaccines and treatments to counter bioterrorist attacks
- Stanford researchers predict a new state of matter in semiconductors
December 8
- J. Keith Mann, professor emeritus of law, dies at 82
- Scientists offer new model for forecasting the likelihood of an earthquake
- Study questions the 'biodiversity hotspot' approach to wildlife conservation
December 7
December 6
- Aurora Forum presents 'An Evening with the Kitchen Sisters'
- Richard Saller to head School of Humanities and Sciences
- Artist Gail Wight: A scientific engagement
December 5
- Path is critical in learning tough topics, thermodynamics professor says
- Thomas Kailath to receive electrical engineering society's highest award
November 30
November 29
November 28
November 27
November 23
November 20
November 16
November 15
- New program trains scholars to communicate the science and economics of climate change
- Researchers look at how technology is changing the concept of traditional education
November 13
November 10
November 9
November 8
- 2006-07 Hoover Institution Campbell National Fellows named
- C-SPAN to air roundtable discussion with Ted Koppel on Thanksgiving
- Stanford, conservation groups launch new project to quantify the value of nature
- Stanford robot learns to grasp everyday chores
November 7
- African American columnists to discuss 2006 elections
- Scientists use gene therapy to improve memory and learning in animals
November 6
- Computer science 'still a good career,' leader of job migration task force says
- Stanford launches national survey on recruitment and retention of academic couples
November 3
November 1
October 31
October 30
October 25
- Open SESAME: A particle accelerator offers opportunities for scientific cooperation in Middle East
- Mexican immigration roundtable set for Oct. 30
- Veteran war correspondent and Jarhead author to discuss effects of combat
October 24
- Wonderfest science celebration to be held at Stanford, UC-Berkeley Nov. 4 and 5
- IRS ruling allows charitable trusts to be invested in Stanford endowment
- Global reality check: Technology must address coal to fix warming climate, scientists say at three-day energy forum
October 23
October 20
October 18
- Class examining immigration issues to be open to community
- Discoverer of '10th planet' to give public lecture about the planet debate
- Stanford engineers shed light on the crash of the USS Macon, last of the 'flying aircraft carriers'
- UN film festival offers little-seen perspectives on global human rights issues
- Whole Earth Catalog symposium to trace cyberculture's roots
- Santa Clara County court rules against Committee for Green Foothills lawsuit
October 17
- Stanford receives undergraduate research grant from Amgen Foundation
- Stanford on the Moon? Alums plan an off-planet satellite campus
- Library event to honor creator of Harold, of purple crayon fame
October 16
October 10
- The Stanford Challenge: University sets out to address global problems, educate leaders, foster excellence
- The Stanford Challenge Fact Sheet
- Experts to discuss problems in financing California's public schools
- Hoover National Security Affairs Fellows named for 2006-07
- Abuse of terror suspects, prisoners in wake of Abu Ghraib scandal is focus of conference
October 6
October 5
- Stanford alumnus commits $30 million gift to fund energy efficiency institute
- Stanford University's Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at SLAC contributes to 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October 4
- Roger Kornberg wins the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Sharks, whales and giant tuna to be featured topics at Hopkins Marine Station open house Oct. 14
- Hotmail co-founder is helping India create its next Silicon Valley
October 3
October 2
September 28
September 27
- Social science researcher proposes overhaul of survey methodology
- Department of Petroleum Engineering adopts new name and broader mission 'beyond petroleum'
- With record resolution and sensitivity, tool images how the chemistry of life organizes in a cell membrane
September 25
September 19
September 18
- Exhibit puts spotlight on the theatrical Charles Dickens
- Yahoo! funds international journalism fellowship at Stanford
- Ted Koppel to moderate roundtable on global threats
September 14
- Stanford University places Stanford Band on indefinite provisional status
- Stanford University endowment report issued by Stanford Management Company
September 12
September 11
- An artificial cornea is in sight, thanks to biomimetic hydrogels
- Scientists discuss new frontiers in single-molecule research at American Chemical Society
September 6
- Former university general secretary, fund-raiser Daryl Pearson dead at 87
- Engineer ramps up protein production, develops versatile viral spheres
August 31
August 30
August 28
August 25
August 24
August 23
August 21
August 18
August 8
August 7
- ACT to bring new play workshop to campus
- Drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis are more virulent than experts assumed, study finds
August 2
August 1
July 28
July 24
- Reidy named vice president for land, buildings and real estate
- Stanford poised to address grand challenges in physics, national report indicates
July 12
- Martu art exhibit reveals a people's intimate relationship to ancestral lands
- Activist Raymond Giraud dead at 85
- Ann Arvin appointed vice provost and dean of research
- Library debuts online multimedia archive with R. Buckminster Fuller Collection
- Six journalists selected as Western Enterprise Reporting Fellows
July 11
- Committee for Green Foothills lawsuit results in construction delay on public trail
- UPDATE: Restoration-era wit gets a contemporary reading in theater festival
July 10
- Writer and alumnus Po Bronson to speak July 17
- Tiny tremors and small earthquakes provide intriguing clues about seismic activity, study finds
July 3
June 30
June 21
June 16
- Walter Meyerhof memorial scheduled for July 16
- Commencement 2006 facts and figures
- Free public lecture series provides science under the stars
June 14
June 12
- Stanford to inaugurate new Center for Computational Earth and Environmental Science on June 20
- Engineering education should welcome women, professional society leader says
- MEDIA ADVISORY: COMMENCEMENT LOGISTICS
- Freshman wins James Robinson Award for journalists
- New wave of international investment may ease global infrastructure woes, researchers find
- When it comes to gene transcription, random pauses aren't quite so random, study finds
June 8
- Member of 'Little Rock 9' to speak at East Palo Alto High commencement
- Jennifer Bilfield named Stanford Lively Arts artistic and executive director
- Researchers 'lase' a trail to early detection of breast tumors
June 7
- Amid globalization debate, engineering students seek mutual understanding
- Jesse's "Cool" garden grows
- Conservation offers financial rewards for cattle ranchers, study finds
June 6
June 1
May 31
- Scientists identify protein 'finger' that triggers tumor suppression in cells
- Symposium looks at therapeutic benefits of musical rhythm
- Professor Gilbert Sorrentino, leading avant-garde novelist, dead at 77
- Bing Nursery School to celebrate 40th anniversary with symposium
- Medical anthropologist aids China's emerging anti-smoking efforts
May 30
May 26
May 23
- Research collaboration 'translates' into potential wound therapy
- Holt Ashley, giant in aeronautical engineering, dies at 83
- Gabriel Garcia appointed faculty director of Stanford University Haas Center for Public Service
May 22
- Woods Institute awards new round of Environmental Venture Program grants
- Mohamed ElBaradei to speak at Stanford on nuclear future
- Engineering school must innovate to stay atop rising competition
May 18
May 17
- Ancient Etruscans unlikely ancestors of modern Tuscans, statistical testing reveals
- Space telescope arrives in Washington, D.C.
May 16
- Drama Department presents Aleta Hayes as Deianeira
- Sandra de Anda Saldeaña, Law Café cashier, dead at 32
- Stanford police investigate second armed robbery, release sketches of suspects in first incident
May 12
May 10
May 9
- 35th annual Stanford Powwow to be held on campus May 12-14
- Memorial service for William Woo on May 19; Woo fund established
- 'Stressed Out Students' conference holds public session
- Silicon Valley venture capitalist backs biofuel
- Awards ceremony on May 19 to honor community service partnerships and faculty who bring volunteerism into curriculum
- Stanford scientist recognized for his contribution to solar physics
May 8
- MEDIA ADVISORY
- Bings make gift to Stanford in Washington Program
- Stanford raises living wage for subcontracted workers
May 5
- 2006-07 John S. Knight Fellows announced
- Knight Ridder Washington editor to speak at Knight Lecture and Symposium
- MEDIA ADVISORY
May 4
May 3
- New lie detection technology worries Stanford ethicist
- $10 million endowment helps to secure future of gender research at Stanford
- Experts from the U.S. and Netherlands to discuss risk of catastrophic levee failure in California and other states
May 2
April 27
April 25
- Universe's 'greenest' systems are black holes
- Economist Paul Milgrom elected to National Academy of Sciences
- University of Iowa Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby selected as Stanford's new AD
- Researchers gain new insight into strength of crystalline industrial materials
April 24
April 19
- Double duty: Magnetic nanotechnology holds promise in fighting cancer, advancing computing
- Humanities Centers names 2006-07 fellows
April 18
April 17
- Manning Marable to address Katrina, Malcolm X in campus talks
- Five faculty receive Sloan Fellowships
- French film director Claire Denis cancels April 18 and 19 appearances
- From lollipops to Silly Putty, chemical engineer demonstrates that 'flexible electronics' are not child's play
April 12
- Vaden Health Center to discontinue dependent care insurance
- William Woo, longtime journalist and journalism professor, dead at 69
April 11
- Stanford to offer first online high school for gifted students
- Thomas Connolly, professor emeritus and nuclear engineer, dies at 83
April 9
April 7
- Advanced project management program wins international award
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Carol Browner, former EPA chief, to discuss global warming on April 11
April 5
- Gravity Probe B know-how plows into Space Technology Hall of Fame
- French film series to feature renowned director, award-winning films
- Computer Science Department celebrates 40 years of changing the world
April 4
April 3
March 31
- Americans pessimistic about future health of environment, voice strong bipartisan support for improvement
- Stanford offers admission to 2,430 applicants
March 30
March 27
- Weekly seminars will focus on science, technology and society
- Exhibit looks back at the aftermath of the Great Earthquake of 1906
March 22
March 21
March 20
- New database system accommodates uncertain data and sources
- Stanford professor hopes to mimic the brain on a chip
- Kavli Building opens to explore challenges in astrophysics and cosmology
- Nobel laureate James Cronin to deliver Hofstadter Lecture on cosmic rays
March 17
March 15
March 13
- To avoid doing more harm than good, land trusts must consider market forces when acquiring property
- New technique provides the first full view of the far side of the sun
March 10
- Stanford University begins removal of Site 515 antennas
- Formal offers of financial support for trail improvements made through letters sent to San Mateo County, Portola Valley and Los Altos Hills
- Stanford Knight Fellows launch campaign in support of threatened Colombian TV journalist
March 9
March 8
- With 'Stew,' arts initiative links up with New York's Public Theater
- Hurricane Katrina did not raise nation's awareness of poverty, inequality, scholars say
- Financial aid program for Latin American students established
- Corporate governance center launched: $10 million gift from Rocks funds effort to study issues such as shareholder rights
March 7
- Global Climate and Energy Project announces new energy research programs totaling nearly $8 million
- Scientists recommend change now to lessen climate-change effects
March 6
March 3
- Stanford researchers calculate the mathematics of terror
- Mexican presidential election forum at Stanford to examine future of democracy
March 1
February 28
- Paul Roberts, engineer and environmentalist, dies at age 67
- James Angell, university carillonneur and electrical engineer, dies at 81
February 27
- David Epel to deliver the 2006 Ed Ricketts Lecture in Seaside on March 4
- New Yorker architecture critic to deliver Christensen Lecture March 2
February 24
February 22
February 20
- Unearthing explanations for New Madrid earthquakes
- Scientists look to the Bahamas as a model for coral reef conservation
February 17
- Three new trustees elected to board
- Rare gamma-ray flare from a distant star disturbs Earth's daytime ionosphere
- World faces challenge as life expectancies lengthen, scientist says
- Leading authority on the history of slavery to deliver Tanner Lectures
February 15
- Study: Vague language about drug side effects lowers chance that patients will follow prescriptions
- Melinda Liu receives Shorenstein Journalism Award
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference to be held March 10-11
- Academic performance and social behavior in elementary school are connected, new study shows
- Outgoing NASA Ames center director Hubbard accepts visiting scholar appointment
- Stanford Board of Trustees sets tuition for 2006-07
February 14
February 13
- Two Stanford professors elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Computer interface design starts with respecting the real world
February 10
- Application numbers for undergraduate admission set record
- Stanford mathematician Keith Devlin, a.k.a. National Public Radio's 'Math Guy,' explains the changing nature of mathematical proof
February 8
February 7
- Model explains how electron beams make nanotubes visible
- Astronaut Ellen Ochoa to talk about her career Feb. 14
February 6
February 3
February 2
- Agreement reached on Tuesday with service-workers union on benefits issues
- Eight research teams awarded $1 million to find new ways to address global problems
February 1
- Center for African Studies launches 'African Intellectuals' project
- Panel to discuss women in mathematics
- 'A Wealth of Ideas: Revelations from the Hoover Institution Archives' opens to the public
- Coretta Scott King memorial scheduled for Thursday at the King Institute
January 31
- Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter to present Presidential Lecture on Feb. 6
- King Institute founder Clayborne Carson reflects on Coretta Scott King
- Statement by Stanford University President John Hennessy on President Bush's proposal for an American Competitiveness Initiative
January 30
January 27
- Oscar Serbein, expert on risk management and insurance, dead at 86
- University aims to support all female graduate students with new childbirth policy
January 26
- Sustainable forestry in the West: past, present and future
- Matt Kahn celebrates 55 years of teaching, creating at Stanford
January 23
- Scientists discover that groundwater brings nutrients--and possibly contaminants--to coral reef ecosystems
- Lecture series assessing environmental, social impact of Hurricane Katrina starts tonight
- Stanford Law School names Sabrina Johnson associate dean for communications and public relations
January 18
- Joe Oliger, computer science professor emeritus, dead at 63
- New foundry's 'microfluidic' chips can accelerate biomedical research
- Cornel West to discuss access and equity in education
- MEDIA ADVISORY
- Symposium recalls international campaigns to end apartheid in South Africa
January 17
- Memorial service for Henry Taube, Nobel laureate, to be held Feb. 6
- History professor to focus on French royal wives in gallery talk
January 11
- Memorial service set for history Professor Kennell Jackson
- InSAR satellite technology honed to broaden detection of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
January 10
- King Institute inauguration, anti-apartheid symposium honor MLK legacy
- Campaign for Undergraduate Education closes with all goals exceeded