1991 News Releases
Below you will find an index to the 1991 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.
March
April
- Smoke bombs found in Sorority tents
- Stanford students volunteer for community fix-up
- Manipulation of 'equality,' 'racism' hinders fight for economic, racial justice, Bunzel says
- English professor, novelist Arturo Islas dies
- Continuing Studies to offer summer program to help students improve learning techniques
- Stanford investigating instructor's claims of drug violations
- Grundfest wins Olin Foundation faculty fellowship
- Debating diversity, multiculturalism on campus
- Nine honored with Dean's Awards for Academic Achievement
- Biale to address 'Zionism as an erotic revolution'
- Ford executive inaugurates new lecture series
- SLAC reports PCBs in ditch, plans cleanup
- Faculty Senate asks for study of benefits for gay couples
- Centennial events honor a century of staff diversity
- New civil engineering curriculum features core, wet side, dry side
- Joseph Berger wins Cooley-Mead Award for distinguished contributions to social psychology
- Channing Robertson named to Bowes chair in Engineering
- Venezuelan president plans May 5-6 visit to Stanford
- Farm workers president Chavez to speak at Stanford
- Stanford's provisional indirect cost recovery rate set at 55.5%
- First Amendment to be topic of forum, Tom Wicker lecture May 6
- Gordon Brown named to Dorrell Kirby Chair
- Arson fire damages kitchen at frat house
- Chicano students find community in times of struggle
- Emerging Zionism embodied ideological sexual conflict
- Project to explore Japan's banking system, its effects on growth
- Student sexual activity up, drinking down, survey shows
May
- Stanford unveils plan to address budget shortfalls
- Bogus letters claim staff, student 'investigations'
- Hoover names Smith associate director
- Hoover announces National Fellows for 1991-92
- Architect Van der Ryn to speak on sustainable communities
- Back from D.C., Rice offers inside look at U.S.-Soviet relations
- Suppes, Zare elected to American Philosophical Society
- Knight fellows announced
- Six Stanford scientists named Presidential Young Investigators
- Time, training said to be keys to improved teaching
- Stanford students believe in First Amendment, at least in theory
- National Academy of Sciences elects three Stanford scholars
- Graduate enthusiasm vital in teaching, deans' panel says
- Wicker decries 'nibbling' at First Amendment freedoms
- Venezuelan president urges trade cooperation to strengthen emerging nations
- Background: Management firm part of new system
- Hoagland named CEO of Stanford Management Co.
- Stanford gives government check, report on audit cooperation
- Chinese dissident astrophysicist Fang Lizhi to speak at Stanford
- Stanford instructor dismissed for conduct violating drug policy
- Confusion resolved; government accepts two Stanford checks
- Youth Opportunity Program supervisors sought
- Stanford recovers penalties for excess water use
- Integrating public service brings new meaning to teaching, panel says
- Juggling teaching, research precarious, panel says
- Shultz encourages Eastern Europe's quest for freedom
- Sheehan elected chair of '91-92 Faculty Senate
- Privatization expected to continue in Eastern Europe
- Stanford conference on Chinese 'occidentalism'
- Centennial 'fete' celebrates academia
- Experts discuss keys to success in Eastern Europe
- Bing School celebrates 25 years as child study lab
- Scholar uncovers hidden history of people with disabilities
- Stanford students aim to break world's leap-frogging record
- Jackson named Dean of Students
- Porras named associate dean of Stanford business school
- Memorial service set for Prof. John E. Nixon
- China likes science but not scientists, says Fang Li Zhi
- Student's book offers freshmen tips on college survival
- Guillotine, aqueduct on Quad show technology shapes culture
- Nine Stanford faculty members elected to AAAS
- Stanford paid 15 percent of indirect costs, report says
- No word yet on possible IRS investigation at Stanford
- Relations between U.S. and U.S.S.R. central to "new world order," Shevardnadze says
- 'Retirement party' for 25-year-old computer
- Faculty Senate refers domestic partners benefits back to committee
- Stanford filmmaker wins Student Academy Award
- 100-k race to commemorate 100 cardinal years
- Ely book focus of symposium 10 years later
- Historian Degler examines nature versus nurture debate
- Six individuals, teach-in organizers win service awards
- How people choose 'career paths'
- Soviet cosmologist at Stanford shows new view of universe
- Ocean-floor record of climate change subject of researcher's honor
- Transfer applications up 12 percent
- Wei named business school's new information chief
- Stanford gears up for 100th annual commencement
- Stanford scholars enjoy resurgent interest in Asian- Am studies
- Ideas sought for contents of Centennial time capsule
- No-parking rules enforced in 'Gerona triangle'
June
- Centennial Campaign most volunteer- intensive ever
- Parking prices
- Stanford's medical dean discusses resignation of neurosurgeon who alleges widespread sexual discrimination
- Holloway named co-director of arms control center
- Falcon to direct International Studies institute
- Better kidney machine, ultra commute car star Thursday in design demo
- Panel debates conversion to non-Defense research funding
- Centennial Campaign most volunteer- intensive ever
- Undergraduates directly benefit from Centennial Campaign
- Post-campaign is time for stewardship, regrouping
- Growth limits expected in post-Centennial Campaign era
- Endowed chairs encourage research, good teaching
- Centennial Campaign to reach $1.1 billion goal soon
- Look to the future to understand the present, economist advises
- Annual lab product show June 19
- Staar reappointed to Defense Language board
- Solar cars to arrive at Stanford Oval on first leg of race
- School of Education dean named to National Education Council
- University of Pacific's Leland named Stanford A.D.
- Undergraduate essayists honored
- South African activist teacher gets education doctorate
- Carl Djerassi wins nation's highest chemistry award
- Book Digest
- Geologists find gases that blew away from ancient volcano
- Teaching at Stanford: Is it really so bad?
- Massy to leave chief financancial officer post June 15
- Stanford jazz concerts planned in memory of saxophonist Getz
- Stanford car/vanpooling at highest-ever level
- Nobel laureate on investment portfolio 'fishing'
- Arts and humanities public service fellows named
- Faculty initiates broad study of education
- Senior Mark Oldman: 'Find what fires your imagination'
- Artificial intelligence expert took scenic route to graduation
- Alaskan student hopes to work with native population
- Student arrested in April smokebomb incident
- Prof. Marion Lewenstein named academic secretary
- Centennial Campaign surpasses goal of raising $1.1 billion
- $25-million Bass gift applauds Stanford contributions to mankind
- Stanford names Van Etten new chief financial officer
- $3 million gift launches program to educate professors of manufacturing
- Booker, Kafka receive Sterling Awards for service
- Housing applications from student couples on the rise
- Stanford Law School presents diplomas, honors
- Business School honors 379 with graduate degrees
- Three win Gores awards for teaching excellence
- Outgoing dean of admissions outlines challenges for future
- Education graduates urged to 'get wisdom, understanding'
- Four win Dinkelspiel Awards for outstanding service
- Committee on Stanford's future to toil long and hard
- Graduates given 'three blossoms' of advice
- American Studies Program adds race, ethnicity focus
- Stanford faces $24.5 million deficit in 1991-92 operating budget
- Stanford celebrates 100th commencement
- Trost symposium to explore new fields of organic chemistry
- David Donoho named MacArthur Fellow
- Olympic medalist Debi Thomas graduates from Stanford
- Departing seniors urged to seek changes, truth day by day
- Materials science professor balances teaching, research, administration
- Stanford-organized solar car race zig-zags across state
- Hoover scholars: Soviet economic reform lies with individual republics
- PROGRAM SEEKS WAYS TO BRING GOOD NUTRITION TO PEOPLE WHO CAN'T READ HEALTH ADVICE
- USW workers give strike authorization
- NARCOLEPSY DISCOVERIES PROVIDE CLUES TO NORMAL SLEEP
- Republic of Korea president to speak at Hoover June 29
- Breast Feeding Center Helps Moms, Kids and Caregivers
- Boaters, other volunteers sought for quake study
- Stanford Wins Injunction Against Nutri/System
- Golden medal winners for humanities, creative arts
- Undergraduate researchers honored
- Wolak honored for helping undergraduate research
- Centennial teaching assistants honored
- Sexual harassment charges filed against Med School professor
- Carnochan assumes new IIS position
July
- Gridlock on Wall Street
- Korean President sees powerful Asian trade alliances ahead
- Immigrants said to present challenge, opportunity for California
- When research and education clash
- Academic budget cuts roust emotions, researcher says
- Stanford center studies Soviet defense conversion
- Seeds of change in Business School economics
- Faculty committee begins work on vision of Stanford
- Distinguished scholar Robert Wesson dies at Stanford
- Stanford 'hams' take part in preparedness drill
- Stanford projects indirect costs, foresees lower recovery
- TREATMENT HELPS INFANTS WITH SEVERE FORM OF COMMON RESPIRATORY INFECTION
- Science, technology are focus of public seminars
- Israelis, Palestinians to discuss building a common future
- Vassar College dean to head Stanford undergraduate admissions
- Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Koppel, Doobie Brothers to headline Stanford Spectacular
- Road work
- Education reform will fail without better research, report says
- Stanford, union open contract negotiations
- NEUROSURGEON USES ABDOMINAL BLOOD SUPPLY TO 'FEED' WOMAN'S BRAIN AND PREVENT STROKES
- Stanford Symphony strikes the right chord in Eastern Europe
- New policies place health-safety burden on supervisors
- Campus homeowners rename group, elect directors and officers
- County commission moves to preserve frat house
- FASTBOOK service
- BRITISH BREAST CANCER EXPERT NAMED TO LEAD STANFORD MAMMOGRAPHY PROGRAM
- International conference to discuss earthquake zoning
- Stanford announces reform program on indirect costs NOTE: Three texts follow this release.
- Manzanita trailers to house Webb Ranch workers
- Undergraduate admissions officer to head MBA admissions
- Kennedy chronology
- This is the text of President Donald Kennedy's resignation letter to the Board of Trustees.
- Stanford President Kennedy to step down next year
- Board of Trustees accepts Kennedy resignation
- Former Knight Fellow killed covering battle
- Stanford given rebate for water conservation
August
- Documentary film looks at women in Mirror Mirror
- Stanford provides internal audit report on SLAC; no fraud found
- Professor agrees to make correction to credit former student's work
- Joint custody good for children when parents don't fight
- Career counselor offers job-hungry grads tips on finding work
- Sweeney new chairman of EES
- Former Stanford First Lady Ann Sterling dies at 85
- Documentary to be aired on KQEC
- Laid-off workers 'temp' between regular jobs
- Provost James N. Rosse recovering from infection
- Parking passes no longer a police matter
- U.S., Soviet experts propose bilateral moves in Northeast Asia
- American biographer makes British best-seller list
- Home-care program helps meet growing childcare needs
- Business School dean concludes part-time lecturer erred
- Synar subcommittee to review SLAC earthquake-repair requests
- Fire scorches 10 acres of foothills
- San Mateo firm wins Stanford shuttle bid
- Revamping of internal audit department under way
- Football parking to cost $5 in some lots
- Earthquake probabilities: a never-ending quest for better numbers
- Government, Stanford agree on billing method for current year
- Trustee-faculty group studying presidential search
- Quake collapsed roadway where ground was softest
- Taking the guesswork out of strengthening buildings in quake areas
- Stanford geophysicists join in Bay Area deep-fault study
September
- Convocation, reception to mark grad student orientation
- State appellate court upholds Stanford in Davies case
- Music department to hold auditions Sept. 23-24
- Traffic Services reorganized
- Hoover overseer, former trustee Ditz dies
- University Controller Frank Riddle resigns
- Stanford look-alikes sought for parade
- Frohnmayer to speak at Art Department open house
- While not 94599 (Entertainment), Chart of Accounts financial training a success
- Computer scientist honored with symposium, book
- Business School selects 1991-92 faculty fellows
- 'Frontiers in Biology' symposium to open new biology building
- RESEARCH SHOWS HOW ANGER AFFECTS HEART PATIENTS
- Katharine Ku named director of technology licensing
- Numbers, quality of enrolling freshmen remains high
- Faculty recruitment continues to be strong, deans say
- Joanne Coville named acting controller
- Stanford received $180.9 million in gifts in 1990-91
- Ditz to join centennial runners Sunday, Sept. 22
- Committee to identify Stanford's next president by spring/summer
- TYPICAL OLDER ADULTS BENEFIT FROM EITHER HOME OR GROUP EXERCISE, COMMUNITY STUDY SHOWS.
- AZT HELPS HEMOPHILIACS INFECTED WITH AIDS VIRUS
- Dependence upon Persian Gulf oil to grow
- Stanford told that Biddle filed personal suit, asks his removal
- Plans dropped for Westin Hotel on Stanford campus
- Endowed Professorships Honor Medical Center Research/Physicians
- Police arrest woman on suspicion of child-care center embezzlement
- Press conference to feature pioneers in electronic music
- KGO-TV Anchor Anna Chavez to co-host stadium spectacular
- Streets, parking lots to be closed during Finale Weekend
- Kimball -- A 'kinder, gentler' dream
- Kennedy welcomes his last freshman class to Farm
- Free tickets still available to centennial events
- Sullivan to speak at centennial convocation
- Oct. 11 panel to explore use of Sexton tapes
- Biographer Middlebrook anticipated a different controversy
- Federal judge named to Stanford Board of Trustees
- Centennial roundtables to be broadcast on SUNet
- Centennial events may be somewhat noisy
- Principal investigators meet Van Etten
- USW members ratify three-year labor contract
- Schawlow, Djerassi honored with national medals of science, technology
- Easier access to bibliographic data bases
- Business School welcomes MBA class of '93
- News Service under new management: The mission remains the same
- 1990 immigration law means good news, bad news for international scholars
- Raymond F. Bacchetti named VP for planning, management
- U.S. District Court Rules Against Censorship of Research Data in Stanford Cardiac Assist Research Contract Case
- New Diagnostic Scanner Helps Physicians Make Diagnoses Even When Patients Have Trouble Holding Their Breath
- Young Investigator Awards Program revised
- U.S. should lead in to saving planet's ecosystems, panelists say
- Individual values form the basis of religion's value as an international force for societal good
- Olkin awarded statistical association medal
- New weapons opportunity in new world order
- Mulroney on Canadian, U.S. roles in new world order
- Financing: a major challenge for engineers in the '90s
- Education, jobs called keys to dealing with immigration to U.S.
- Global cooperation: key to worldwide prosperity
- Now is the time to improve classroom education, panelists say
- Experts discuss agony of deciding "who lives, who dies"
- Family ultimately must be responsible for values, panelist says
- America's ethnic diversity seen as powerful by panel
- Panelists discuss role of art in changing society
- Living in zero gravity
- Soviet pioneer of electronic music pays historic visit to Stanford
- SAVE A TREE OR SAVE A LIFE
- Salinas: World changes require educational changes; 40 protest appearance
- Statistics Department receives appeal from Croatia
- Bush considers economics in every major decision
- Indirect cost materials, beetle among time capsule's contents
October
- Student arrested on sexual assault charges
- Budget discussion foreshadows hard choices to be made
- Library committee warns of jeopardy to library collections
- Fifty holograms in a fiber solve data traffic jam
- Volcanic action can prevent earthquakes -- sometimes
- Macho or wimp? With cichlid fish, it's all in the brain
- Soviet transition to capitalism in wrong order, economist says
- How Stanford Nobelists founded molecular biology on a red mold
- BLOOD DONORS TO GET FREE TICKETS TO
- Lifeline Emergency Response System Seeking Users
- ETHNIC DIFFERENCES CAN PLAY A BIG ROLE IN MEDICAL TREATMENT
- School of Earth Sciences plans Oct. 25 groundbreaking
- Revolutionary changes in East-Central Europe and USSR chronicled in new volume
- Soviet archives: new gold mine for historians
- Educator attacks 'double standard' in bilingual education
- Faculty members debate budget issues
- Living in zero gravity
- Pulitzer Prize-winning editor to deliver Knight lecture
- Tiger team targets Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- 'Stage Three' of financial reform package unveiled
- Vacant, quake-damaged fraternity house destroyed in fire
- MAEstro helps students become multimedia authors
- County considers utility tax on Stanford, campus homeowners
- Senate continues budget discussions
- Dean of Research announces Presidential Fellows' nomination procedure
- Parker 'an agent of change' in Stanford community
- STANFORD ONE OF THREE NEW CENTERS FOR NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
- Stanford's New Surgery Chair Believes in Research, Clinical Involvement by all Team Members
- Honor Code cases down from previous year
- Time-consuming process is producing lots of cooperation
- Program cuts will come later
- Targets announced for $43 million gap-closing program
- Stanford students to take part in 'Reach Out' day
- Milton to head national service commission
- Recent grad to coordinate service volunteers
- Sexual harassment: a victim advises others on how to win
- Parking permits now on sale at Information Booth
- Lillie to chair 15-member Stanford presidential search committee
- Fire destroys small cottage
- Faculty Senate Meeting of 10/24
- Report of the Committee of 15 on proposed amendments to Stanford's legislative and judicial Charter.
- Health researchers explore trends in Latino communities
- Stanford residents reminded to check fire hazards
- Third 'Town Meeting' set for Nov. 1
- Job-seeking MBA graduates survive the recession
- Doctoral student asks: How do minority managers manage diversity?
- Lecturer leavens business law with humor, humanity
- Annual Ragtime Ball set for Nov. 16
- Film on modern dancer Lester Horton premieres Nov. 17
- STRESS ENDANGERS BRAIN CELLS BUT FRIENDS MAY HELP
- Public squeamishness, press orthodoxy hurt country, editor says
- Complaints about benefits aired at 'town meeting'
- UCMI Review Panel on campus Nov. 11-13'
- South African constitution authors must be elected, ANC official says
- One car can't suit everyone, Honda chairman says
- Professorship created in memory of former dean
- University lawsuit alleges contamination
- Orientation session for new faculty on resources available to support teaching and research activities
- Students rally in defense of the arts at Stanford
November
- Stanford materials scientists invited to CMR open house today
- Beer study makes news; kudos even from Bears
- Heading to physics through a beer glass, darkly
- Yergin to deliver first A.J. Horn Energy Lecture
- Collaborative to sponsor conference on school change
- First Stanford American Indian Art Market scheduled for Nov. 23
- Next Town Meeting Friday, Nov. 15
- Faculty Senate meeting of Nov. 7
- Stanford student found dead in dorm room
- Stanford Japan Center for research opens with symposium
- United Way, CHA campaigns begin
- New Folio file created for texts, reports
- O-NEGATIVE BLOOD DONORS NEEDED
- Homelessness can rob children of childhood, study finds
- Student to be tried on charge of statutory rape
- Hoover fellow to consult for Sandia Laboratories
- Synergy House demolished
- Stanford appeals imposed cut in indirect-cost reimbursement
- LUNG TRANSPLANT IN INFANT WITH DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA IS FIRST OF ITS KIND
- Homeless families' relatives have less space to share
- Study sheds light on hidden population of homeless teens
- Undergraduate took to streets for Stanford homeless study
- What could schools, shelters, volunteers do better?
- Homelessness hazardous to children's, parents' health
- Fluency in English aids escape from homelessness
- Tree-cutting continues near Stadium
- Native Gathering at Stanford scheduled for Inner Quad
- Open Enrollment Reminders from the Benefits Office
- Unlikely allies oppose change in standard of proof
- Humanities and Sciences budget process
- Panel calls for continued efforts toward multicultural Stanford
- How the brain organizes itself: a bit of nature, a bit of nurture
- Health-premium genesis outlined
- DRUG PROVES EFFECTIVE FOR TREATING CHICKENPOX
- DR. DAVID RYTAND, STANFORD 'LEGEND,' DIES AT 82
December
- Deans to panel next Town Meeting
- Faculty liberalizes principal investigator policy
- Student uses trust fund to award Chinese youth scholarships
- Program gives minority students day on the job
- Proposed amendments to judicial charter are shelved
- Faculty select two staff for research support awards
- How people do bad things: turning off moral controls
- Stanford urging continued water conservation
- Ancient Romans led the way in no-fault divorce
- Designer units campus and Broadway
- Chinese students taught the worst about U.S.
- Alcohol education aims to change the culture
- Historian John Miller dies at 83
- Chemists achieve elusive goal: a bond-specific reaction
- ROOM-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS: KEEP LOOKING
- BIOLOGIST FINDS 'BOSS' DNA SEGMENT THAT TRIGGERS MUTATIONS
- Look in right places for room-temperature superconductors, says Geballe
- COMPUTERS HELP DESIGN, MANUFACTURING WORK TOGETHER
- 'ICE SCULPTURE' - NEW WAY TO MAKE BETTER RACKET
- Springer: composite structures - some like baking bread, others like ice sculptures
- Asian women's forum at Stanford
- Transit passes to be sold on campus
- Three Stanford students named Rhodes scholars for 1992
- Presidential search committee gathering nominations, advice
- Palo Alto made $29.7 million from Stanford commercial lands
- Stanford workers given "orphan" holiday
- Feigenbaum first recipient of World Expert Systems Congress medal
- Foreign student registration sets record for sixth straight year
- Public service center sells bricks for new building
- Stanford Law & Policy Review publishes issue on health-care reform
- Conference explores how to change schools
- Andersons give major graphics collection to Stanford
- Regional instability part of post-Cold War order, George says
- You CAN drink the water: hydrogeologists at work
- Stanford geophysicists probe deep structure of Bay Area earthquake faults
- Finite Resources: Dept. chair Khalid Aziz re Petroleum Engineering
- Earth sciences' next century
- IBM makes $100,000 grant to Stanford center
- The poor who've become poorer are children, economists say
- Student Access
- State Disability Plan contributions change for 1992
- Scientists debate new evidence for electromagnetic earthquake predictors
- Employee Life Insurance Rates Drop
- Library Bulletin Gives Way to Electronic Publication