2008 News Releases
Below you will find an index to the 2008 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 19
December 17
December 15
December 12
December 11
December 10
December 8
December 5
December 3
December 2
December 1
November 26
November 25
- Recent Stanford graduate awarded 2009 Rhodes Scholarship
- Natural Capital Project to develop software program for ocean conservation
November 19
- Library exhibit showcases textbooks from colonial-era readers to 'Dick and Jane'
- Quantum computing spins closer
November 18
- Symposium on local impacts of global warming to be held Dec. 3 at Stanford
- Students challenged to improve bike safety for cash, prizes and accident reduction
- Cantor Arts Center exhibition showcases new acquisitions, including Dürer prints, 'the ultimate in perfection'
November 14
November 12
November 11
November 10
- MEDIA ADVISORY - NOT FOR PUBLICATION
- MEDIA ADVISORY - NOT FOR PUBLICATION
- Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vinod Khosla to lecture on business and the environment Nov. 17
November 7
October 30
October 28
- Major universities see promise in Google Book Search settlement
- Stanford researchers: Global warming is killing frogs and salamanders in Yellowstone Park
October 27
October 24
October 22
- Intelligence documents detail Iran's training of Iraqi militia
- Drama Department spotlights T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'
- Space telescope finds a pulsar with a gamma-ray wink
- Let's face it: Researchers say voters swayed by candidates who share their looks
October 11
October 10
October 9
October 8
- Gifts to arts at Stanford top $200 million; new arts building planned
- Circadian clock may be critical for remembering what you learn, Stanford researchers say
- Media invited to panels on financial crisis, leadership Friday and Saturday
October 6
October 1
- Mental Health & Well-Being Task Force issues report
- Ethics Center receives $5 million gift, new name
- New York Times editor appointed Stanford scholar, adviser
- Aurora Forum to host broadcast of Biden-Palin debate before its first-of-the-year event
September 25
September 24
- John Fondahl, developer of planning methods used to keep large construction projects on schedule, dead at 83
- Free course on role of race, class, faith and gender in upcoming election
- University puts iPhone applications for student services to the test
- Stanford scores high for sustainability in national study
September 23
- Stanford Management Company report issued
- Tom Brokaw to moderate Stanford forum on leadership for the 21st century
- Annual 'Stressed-Out Students' conference begins Friday
- State-of-the-art director Robert Wilson to speak at Stanford
September 17
September 12
September 10
- 'Philosophy Talk' will record two shows Sept. 28 in front of theater audience
- Stanford committed to energy-efficient buildings, Hennessy says
- Jen-Hsun Huang pledges $30 million for innovative engineering center at Stanford
- 'Stress: Portrait of Killer' TV special features Stanford's Robert Sapolsky
September 5
September 4
September 2
August 29
August 27
August 22
August 20
August 19
August 18
- Using everyday language to explain scientific concepts could help students learn, study finds
- New method of overcoming multiple drug resistant diseases developed by Stanford researchers
August 14
- Slipping through cell walls, nanotubes deliver high-potency punch to cancer tumors in mice
- New planning grants to fund research on freshwater issues
August 12
August 11
- Reduce carbon footprint or find more energy sources? Americans want to do both, poll finds
- Actions of individuals are key to saving biodiversity--and ourselves, Stanford biologists say
August 6
- High school students participate in eight-week summer research internship through Office of Science Outreach
- Board of Trustees elects two new members
August 1
July 23
July 15
July 14
July 11
- Balancing development against the price of paradise lost: Stanford researchers spearhead growing push for dollars and cents assessment of benefits of nature
- Stanford builds the smallest 'Tree' ever
July 9
- Seeing the universe through gamma-ray eyes
- Stanford researchers take first look at working muscle fiber
- Democracy center picks 28 international leaders as summer fellows
- School of Education to begin posting faculty's peer-reviewed papers online
- Dish area closed due to red-flag warning on Wednesday
July 3
July 2
June 30
- For 10th season, Stanford Summer Theater presents works by Irish playwright Brian Friel
- Stanford, Samsung engineers sort out nanotube puzzle of keeping different types apart
June 24
June 23
- Foundation gives $5 million to endow Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies
- Stanford offers energy expertise and $1 million for retrofit of Santa Clara County Jail
June 20
June 19
June 17
June 16
June 12
June 11
- René Girard: Stanford's provocative immortel is a one-man institution
- Researchers reveal insights into hidden world of protein folding
June 6
June 5
June 4
- Stanford/SLAC satellite launch to be broadcast live on the web
- George Leppert, nuclear researcher, peace activist, dies at 83
- A 10-minute tutorial on plate tectonics
June 3
May 28
- A way to hear the electric car coming down the road
- Stanford Poverty Count promises more accurate measure than federal poverty index
- Douglas Skoog, analytical chemist and textbook author, dies at 89
May 27
- Carbon nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips
- Four faculty named as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators
May 21
- Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency awards first faculty research grants
- Aeronautics & Astronautics celebrates 50 years in sea, sky and space
May 20
- 'Talking Points Memo' founder to give Knight Lecture
- Two days of events celebrate, examine Stoppard's Coast of Utopia
May 19
May 14
May 13
May 12
- Robert Moulton, helped gain federal funds to build SLAC, dead at 89
- Stanford's John W. Gardner Center receives $4 million to foster youth leadership
- Award-winning play Harlem Duet tells the story of a modern Othello
May 8
May 7
- New gift from science philanthropist to benefit students at Stanford's astrophysics institute
- Professor ferrets out mysteries of biology by giving computers 'intelligence'
May 5
May 1
- Stanford researchers synthesize compound to flush HIV out of hiding and into crosshairs
- Five scholars elected to the National Academy of Sciences
April 30
April 29
April 23
April 22
- Stanford reading rescues poet who wrote of loss, destitution and abandonment
- 'Energy Crossroads' conference April 30 and May 1 at Stanford
April 21
April 17
April 16
- Pan-Asian Music Festival spotlights leading Chinese performers in U.S. debuts
- Annual walking tour to feature four faculty houses with unique histories
- Minty, memory-boosting gum at Cool Product Expo 2008
- Board of Trustees elects Leslie Parker Hume new board president
- Advance preparation key for survival, homeland security chief says
April 10
April 7
April 3
April 2
- Community invited for annual commemoration of Stanford's founders
- A. Louis London, Stanford engineering expert on heat transfer, dead at 94
- Stanford professor receives $10 million grant from Saudi university
- Cantor Arts Center exhibition of makishi highlights Central Africa
- The influence of the irrelevant: Researchers show stimuli unrelated to a decision can still influence the choice we make
- Harold Mooney wins prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
April 1
- King Research and Education Institute commemorates 40th anniversary of MLK assassination
- Deliberative Polling helps residents improve knowledge of affordable housing issues
- International colloquium tackles sports as a cultural force
March 31
March 28
March 19
- Finding deep roots, new genome software infers ancestry with high accuracy
- Stanford program wins $25,000 Goldman Sachs Foundation prize
- Stanford researchers developing 3-D camera with 12,616 lenses
- Larry Abbott, physicist-turned-biologist, to deliver Hofstadter Lecture on neural networks of the brain
March 18
March 13
March 12
- Stanford University Board of Trustees elects five new members
- Stanford acquires renowned collection of 'association copies'
March 11
March 10
- International grants totaling $1 million awarded to interdisciplinary Stanford research teams
- Risser Prize Symposium to examine effect of Cold War fallout on Western environment
March 7
March 5
- Two-day conference devoted to the impact of female influx in the sciences
- Iran's leading poet receives Stanford literature prize
March 4
- Stanford to help new Saudi university with applied math, computer science
- George Fredrickson, influential voice on race and racism, dies at 73
- Stanford biologist awarded 2008 Sophie Prize in Norway
March 3
February 27
- Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, to give public lecture March 5
- Stanford's Product Realization Network: Producing real results
- Waiting for dark matter in a mine, with the world's best detectors
- Media Advisory: Not for Publication
February 25
February 21
February 20
- Spring Migration Dance Concert spotlights cutting-edge choreographers
- Thousands expected to return for second Entrepreneurship Week
- Stanford announces financial aid enhancements
February 19
- Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman top list of American heroes
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Siegfried Hecker to discuss findings from recent North Korea trip
February 15
- Stanford researchers say living corals thousands of years old hold clues to past climate changes
- Map is first to track global human influences on ocean ecosystems
- Unveiling the underwater ways of the white shark
February 14
February 13
- Cyclists roll, roads close, for world-class bike race on Sunday
- Stanford celebrates 40th anniversary of 'The White Album'
- James M. Gere, civil engineer and founder of Stanford's Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, dead at 82
- Engineers demonstrate nanotube wires operating at speed of commercial chips
- Human culture subject to natural selection, Stanford study shows
February 12
- Stanford researchers make first direct observation of 3-D molecule folding in real time
- What are the grand engineering challenges of the 21st century? Stanford's William Perry and other luminaries have the answers
February 11
February 7
- Discrimination against blacks linked to dehumanization, study finds
- Stanford researchers hear the sound of quantum drums
February 6
- Stanford, Palo Alto to host 'U.S. version of the Tour de France'; world's best cyclists to race on campus Feb. 17
- Stanford researcher awarded Wolf Prize in Chemistry
- Metaverse U conference to bring leading thinkers on virtual worlds, Second Life
- Media X visiting scholars give seminars during winter quarter
February 4
February 1
January 30
- After 58 years on the frontiers of science, the HEPL building meets the bulldozer, making way for the next generation of research
- Nationwide 'Rhodes Scholarship' program launched to attract top teachers
- Stanford launches new promotion with iTunes for Lively Arts events
- BP Chief Scientist Steven E. Koonin to speak on energy, environment and security
- Lawrence Lessig to give final 'Free Culture' lecture
January 29
- Principal investigator of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission to give talk at Stanford
- Art exhibit spotlights tourism in America with paintings of Church, Homer, Moran
- Stanford celebrates Emily Dickinson's legacy with three free events
January 28
- Albert Hosmer Bowker, former Stanford dean, Department of Statistics founder, dies at 88
- New nanotube findings by Stanford researchers give boost to potential biomedical applications
January 25
- Jennifer Martinez named 2008 Daniel Pearl Memorial Journalism Intern
- Kyoto zuancho on exhibit at Stanford's Green Library
January 23
- Stanford site advances science of turning 2-D images into 3-D models
- Alan Waterman, outdoorsman, professor caught up in Vietnam-era protests, dead at 89
- Stanford professor's radio show spotlights Nobel laureates, writers, scholars giving their 'Entitled Opinions'
January 22
January 16
- Stanford computer scientist makes splash with Academy Award for fluid simulation
- Sam Karlin, mathematician who improved DNA analysis, dead at 83
January 15
- Leah Chodorow, longtime campus resident and community activist, dies at 98
- Price tag can change the way people experience wine, study shows
January 9
- Two faculty members receive grants for innovative energy research
- Stanford University Press revives interest in the controversial masterpiece of the Kabbalah
- Stanford University, Monterey Bay Aquarium and MBARI launch new center to tackle global threats to the oceans
January 8
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Stanford philanthropy center to host Google executives' Jan. 10 talk on charitable giving
- STEP elementary program opens doors to non-Stanford applicants