2010 News Releases

Below you will find an index to the 2010 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 22

• Stanford research shows sharing in sorrow might make us a bit happier

December 16

• Tiny 3-D images from Stanford and SLAC shed light on origin of Earth's core
• Social media for social change: Stanford professor uses Facebook, Twitter and personal stories to promote bone marrow donations

December 14

• Stanford research follows spread of flu in high school
• Earthshaking possibilities may limit underground storage of carbon dioxide, says Stanford geophysicist

December 13

• Stanford admits 754 early applicants

December 10

• Satellite data provide a new way to monitor groundwater aquifers in agricultural regions

December 7

• Lit classes under attack? Stanford's Joshua Landy to the rescue

December 2

• Stanford students create 'do not track' software

November 24

• Developing countries often outsource deforestation, study finds
• Female fish – and humans? – lose interest when their male loses a slugfest, Stanford researchers say

November 19

• Stanford students fly in zero gravity to protect satellites from tiny meteoroids

November 10

• NYC director Joanna Settle comes to Stanford to take on one of Shakespeare's toughest nuts: All's Well That Ends Well

November 8

• Stanford scientists see the logic in the illogical behavior of neurons

November 2

• Harry Elam promises to make arts 'inescapable'

November 1

• Oil: How much is there, how much more will we use and at what price?

October 28

• Q&A: Stanford's Segura on midterm elections

October 27

• Stanford study shows getting older leads to emotional stability, happiness

October 22

• Stanford researchers help get your hands on - and in - a Humboldt squid this weekend in Washington, D.C.

October 14

• 'Ethics and War' explores the contradictions of modern conflict
• Need a study break to refresh? Maybe not, say Stanford researchers

October 11

• Stanford's Roundtable discusses longevity, aging and its impacts on society

September 30

• Stanford lands research grants for creative scientists and breakthrough projects.

September 28

• Stanford Management Company announces 2010 results

September 27

• Solar cells thinner than wavelengths of light hold huge power potential, Stanford researchers say

September 17

• Anglers and Stanford scientists join to track marlin swimming unusual migration routes across the equator

September 14

• Stanford historian tells why the West rules - for now

September 12

• Stanford researchers' new high-sensitivity electronic skin can feel a fly's footsteps

September 8

• Stanford land-use expert brings satellite data down to Earth

September 2

• Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest, says Stanford researcher

August 31

• High-speed filter uses electrified nanostructures to purify water at low cost

August 30

• Children raised by gay couples show good progress through school
• Stanford preparing for Dalai Lama's October visit

August 11

• MRI scans show brain's response to actions of others in Stanford study

August 3

• Carnivorous mice spread deadly plague in prairie dog towns, Stanford study finds

August 2

• New solar energy conversion process discovered by Stanford engineers could revamp solar power production
• Stanford Management Company appoints Ken Frier chief investment officer
• Bill Lane, Stanford benefactor and Sunset publisher, dead at 90

July 28

• Cantor's 'Mami Wata' exhibition spotlights the art of Pan-Africa
• Best hope for saving Arctic sea ice is cutting soot emissions, says Stanford researcher

July 27

• Kosslyn appointed director of Stanford's CASBS

July 26

• Hoover fellow: New revelations in Afghanistan are same old, same old

July 19

• Stephen Schneider, a leading climate expert, dead at 65

July 14

• King Institute hosts conference on global peace, justice and sustainability
• Stanford acquires a cache of ancient Chinese books

July 9

• Former SLAC director Jonathan Dorfan to become first president of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

July 8

• Heat waves and extremely high temperatures could be commonplace in the U.S. by 2039, Stanford study finds

July 6

• Stanford's 'Three Books' program turns to ethics

June 28

• Teaching law in Afghanistan and other developing nations, Stanford Law School makes legal education a global goal
• Stanford economist John Taylor wins $250K prize for outstanding achievement

June 25

• Scientific expertise lacking among 'doubters' of climate change, according to analysis by Stanford researchers

June 23

• Precise landscapes, luminous seascapes: The world of William Trost Richards

June 22

• Stanford Jazz Festival goes global

June 18

• Stanford will vote 'yes' on shareholder resolutions asking companies to report their efforts to avoid using 'conflict minerals' from Congo

June 16

• Sex, pregnancy and birth control: Stanford sociologists seek more info on trends in contraception use

June 15

• Stanford helps to digitally preserve mountains of documents

June 14

• High-yield agriculture slows pace of global warming, say Stanford researchers

June 10

• High school students use cutting-edge technique to create fluorescent proteins, thanks to Stanford researchers
• Stanford Poll: Large majority of Americans support government solutions to global warming

June 9

• A tale of two atolls: Stanford researchers study the impact of fishing on remote coral reefs

June 8

• 2010 Cuthbertson, Dinkelspiel, Gores awards honor faculty, students and staff
• Stanford acquires archives for experimental, underground filmmaking
• Voyage into the Arctic Ocean with Stanford researchers
• Media Advisory; not for publication: Stanford Commencement logistics

June 7

• Stanford mixes in mobile social media for Commencement Weekend

June 3

• Community invited to public meeting on campus health and safety
• Stanford students' new electric car breaks the mold, not the bank

June 1

• Exiled Ethiopian journalist decries 'outrageously ludicrous' elections

May 31

• Milton Van Dyke, influential fluid mechanics professor, dead at 87

May 27

• Stanford educator promotes Mideast peace through technology
• Scientists offer solutions to arsenic groundwater poisoning in southern Asia
• Visitor Center unveils interactive kiosks, celebrates roomy new quarters

May 25

• Hannah Arendt considered today: Totalitarianism, genocide and the need for thought

May 24

• Stanford historian, venture capitalist energize voters over political reform
• Small mammals – and the rest of the food chain – at greater risk from global warming than previously thought, say Stanford researchers

May 21

• Stanford's Pamela Matson urges urges U.S. To adopt coordinated research program on climate change

May 20

• Stanford scientists confirm that polluted groundwater flows from coastal septic systems to the sea
• Stanford law clinic fights to fix California school funding
• Volcker receives first SIEPR Prize, says 'time is growing short' to act on financial and environmental issues

May 17

• Fish facing reflections become feisty but fearful, Stanford researchers say

May 13

• Stanford physicist says Americans should overcome lingering doubts about nuclear power plants

May 6

• Construction to begin on Stanford's cutting-edge concert hall
• Leo Holub, founder of Stanford's photography program, dead at 93

April 30

• How Jews used 'creative resistance' to oppose the Nazis

April 29

• Five faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
• Aboriginal hunting and burning increase Australia's desert biodiversity, Stanford researchers find

April 27

• Howard R. Williams, Stanford oil and gas law expert, dead at 94
• Stanford scientists link ocean acidification to prehistoric mass extinction

April 22

• Stanford parallel programming course available online for free
• Stanford's solar observer sees the sun in high definition
• Stanford expert says volcano danger to airliners hard to predict

April 20

• Frankenstein returns to life in Spark of Being

April 19

• Stanford issues habitat conservation plan

April 15

• Stanford workshop examines video revolution's impact on journalism, government, education and business

April 14

• Pritzker family pledges $10 million to Stanford University to maintain access for needy Chicago students

April 13

• Stanford researchers find electrical current stemming from plants
• Plant pathogen genetically tailors attacks to each part of its host, say Stanford researchers

April 10

• Stanford Eastern Europe scholar: Despite catastrophe, 'Poland will survive'

April 8

• Stanford researchers focus on social networks to curb spread of disease
• From a POW camp to Berlin to Stanford: an avant-garde director's career

April 7

• Number of postdocs on campus sets a record

April 5

• Stanford's David Holloway weighs in on U.S.-Russian nuclear treaty slated for signing this week
• California state pension funds going broke, Stanford study finds
• Early Earth stayed warm because its ocean absorbed more sunlight; greenhouse gases were not involved, Stanford researchers say

April 2

• Web and mobile apps come under review on new Stanford site

April 1

• Nanoscale 'stealth' probe slides into cell walls seamlessly, say Stanford engineers

March 31

• Stanford engineering professor returns from Haiti and Chile resolved to improve earthquake construction education

March 29

• Stanford admission rate for Class of 2014 sets a university record

March 26

• From one jazz legend to another: Christian McBride to celebrate Herbie Hancock on March 31

March 25

• Scientist studies emotion in psychology, art and acting to help autistics

March 19

• 'Arcade' traces the life cycle of an idea – from blog to book

March 18

• From volcanoes to cancer cures, stimulus funds support a wide range of research at Stanford
• Q&A: Stanford's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya explains the health reform bill

March 16

• New report reveals the environmental and social impact of the 'livestock revolution'
• Urban CO2 domes increase deaths, poke hole in 'cap-and-trade' proposal, Stanford researcher says

March 12

• Scientists win $1 million for physics research
• New SIEPR building dedicated amid hopes to 'encourage better economic policy around the world.'

March 11

• Stanford students reach local community with designs to help people with disabilities

March 10

• Behavior of single protein observed in unprecedented detail by Stanford chemists
• Stanford research shows Silicon Valley land conservation didn't hurt housing development
• Stanford dance performance mixes it up, hip hop to classical

March 8

• U.S. poet laureate Kay Ryan speaks, teaches at Stanford

March 4

• Steven Chu to speak on clean energy at Stanford student event
• Stanford dancers delve into the physics of falling

March 3

• George Dekker, scholar of British and American literature, dies at 75

February 26

• Three Stanford seniors and an alumna win 2010-11 Gates, Luce scholarships
• Discovery in legumes could reduce fertilizer use, aid environment, say Stanford researchers

February 25

• Stanford health experts help develop North Korea's first drug-resistant tuberculosis diagnostic lab
• Can avatars change the way we think and act?

February 21

• New insights into helping marine species cope with climate change

February 20

• Stanford's Hank Greely puts neuroscience on trial
• Nanotechnology sparks energy storage on paper and cloth
• Global warming could hurt some poor populations and lift others from poverty, Stanford study finds

February 19

• Stanford scholar links Rome and America in Philadelphia exhibition

February 18

• In reality, simulation is key to math education, says Stanford mathematician
• Stanford software is gaining the sophistication to comprehend what humans write

February 17

• Stanford study finds secondhand smoke pervasive in California's Indian casinos
• Cantor Arts Center stages first-ever U.S. exhibition to spotlight 'national treasures' of 20th-century China
• Deep in ancient seafloor sediments off Antarctica, Stanford find insight into past – and possible future – climates

February 16

• Isaac Babel's Stanford biographer explores the Russian writer's world of violence, irony

February 11

• Forget Cupid. Online connections have valentines falling in love, Stanford researcher says
• Here comes the sun: Instrument developed by Stanford launches from Cape Canaveral
• California Supreme Court rules in favor of Stanford, County of Santa Clara on trails issue

February 10

• Stanford encryption pioneer who risked career becomes Hamming Medalist

February 9

• Stanford maintains aid, raises undergraduate tuition 3.5%

February 5

• Conductive eTextiles: Stanford finds a new use for cloth

February 3

• Stanford's robotic Audi to brave Pikes Peak without a driver

February 2

• Stanford signs Google Book Search agreement, endorses court settlement
• Count on this: Stanford researchers get better access to census data
• 'The Book Haven': A new blog for Stanford's literary universe

February 1

• Unabomber's writings raise uneasy ethical questions for Stanford scholar

January 28

• Stanford study shows older investors prone to mental misfires while playing the market

January 26

• Collaboration between Stanford Innovation Journalism Center and a Pakistani TV station honored
• Stanford-led research team aims for rapid detection of radiation dose

January 25

• Dalai Lama to make third visit to Stanford

January 22

• Money makes people happy, especially if they're paid by the hour

January 21

• Stanford DNA study: Hunting minke whales on grounds of overabundance not justified

January 20

• Coconut palms bring ecological change to tropics, Stanford researchers say

January 19

• Biology professor Peter Vitousek wins Japan Prize
• Stanford researcher urges universities, businesses to offer benefit to pay for housework

January 15

• U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice will be Stanford's 2010 Commencement speaker
• Q&A: Stanford's Byron Reeves on avatars in the workplace

January 13

• Stanford scientists link brain development to chances of recovering vision after blindness
• Stanford earthquake experts available to discuss temblor in Haiti with news media.

January 12

• U.S. lawmakers meet at Stanford for hearing on export controls
• Stanford's latest iPhone Apps course now available on iTunes U

January 7

• Welsh poet at Stanford: Small languages make a big difference

January 6

• Solar-powered irrigation systems improve diet and income in rural sub-Saharan Africa, Stanford study finds