1995 News Releases
Below you will find an index to the 1995 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.
January
- Premier administrative session replaces Jan. 12 senate meeting
- Herbert Lindenberger elected VP of Modern Language Association
- War correspondent chosen as Knight Fellow
- New patent policy requires new patent agreements to be signed
- Social science research influences computer product design
- Mediation expert Bush to speak at Stanford
- New type of catalyst makes hard plastic very elastic
- Lawyers brief managers on university legal issues
- Stanford Bookstore to receive $1 million in stock loss settlement
- Markey Trust awards $1.2 million to Stanford biological scientists
- Director describes latest discoveries of space telescope
- Two Stanford professors to lead national economics group
- Cultures, Ideas, Values faculty oppose major program changes
- Farrakhan helped build climate for Malcolm X's death, historian says
- Nobelist Arrow to teach economics in Italy
- Senate Steering Committee discusses minority graduate recruitment
- New visitor information center opens in Memorial Auditorium
- When jobs move, can workers follow?
- Study charts growing pains of emerging firms
- Common psychological pitfall can skew complex medical decisions
- Faculty Senate to consider foreign language, writing requirements
- Mechanical engineering instructor and hot-rodder dies at 48
- Falcon heads new ad hoc Committee on the Professoriate
- Beyond band theory
- Black leadership, culture to be focus of Black History Month events
- Indian Subcontinent group to stage bhangra dance competition, party
- Chicago legal scholar Sunstein to deliver Wesson lectures
- Endowment established to foster research on catastrophic risk
- Faculty approves enhanced language, writing requirements
February
- Baby boomers face uncertainty regarding retirement income
- Taiwan contributes $1 million to endowment fund
- Computer theft declines, but is still problem at Stanford
- Russian scholar Jack A. Posin dies at 94
- Stanford art Professor Albert Elsen dies at 67
- Engineering receives $690,590 from Sloan for minority Ph.D. program
- New education dean enthused about math, science education proposal
- Undergraduates: Feb 15 sign-up deadline for research at Hopkins
- Law school launches college for corporate board directors
- Nobelist gives popular lecture on astronomical test of Einstein's theory of gravity
- Stanford employees donate $196,139 during annual campaign
- Creating a Dewey decimal system for the data superhighway
- Progress in chemical-based computing reported
- Who will play in coming telecommunications "Field of Dreams"?
- Lecture to explore role of Stanford doctors treating Valley Fever
- Senate not interested in more culture wars
- Financial aid will keep up with tuition, Casper assures parents
- Few surprises in annual crime statistics
- Few surprises in annual crime statistics
- School of Engineering creates new center for professional development
- New dean announces review of School of Education's goals
- General Motors gives $1 million for research, minority recruitment
- Ginsberg accuses neo-conservatives of political correctness
- Sullivan analyzes reasons for left-right flip-flop on free speech
- Bauer, Van Etten, Dzau named to key leadership posts in medical center
- Anthropologist: How Zapatista masks set off Mexico's money crisis
- Why nuclear proliferation is likely to lead to accidents
- Why nuclear proliferation is likely to lead to accidents
- African American admissions coordinator urges teens to set their sights high
- Second annual Research Administration Conference to be held
- SLAC Plating Shop receives environmental award
- Secretary of Defense to speak at Stanford commencement
- Djerassi - What matters to me and why
- Stanford receives $5 million from Eloise Mabury Knapp trust
- Comedy, dance to be featured at César Chávez commemoration
- Document Express to close; new copy service contracted
- New interdisciplinary program in ethnic studies proposed
- SLAC scientists receive annual accelerator school prize
- Technological push and pull: The history of the global climate change concept
- Women, minority faculty grew by 10 percent in past year
- Law reviews: Do the inmates run the asylum?
- Fans will decide outcome of baseball strike, sports economist says
- Alumnus plans tour for vets who served with Australians
March
- Mitnick creates Sputnik-like urgency for better computer security
- Continuing Studies' spring quarter courses announced
- News Service writer Mary Ann Seawell dies at 53
- Childcare centers found to be difficult workplaces; affects care offered
- How to run very large classes
- School of Engineering honors staff service
- Church organist wins distinbuished alumnus award
- Women face unique barriers to academic success in computer science
- Pole delivered unheeded messages on Holocaust
- No price increase on student health insurance premium
- Admissions launches pilot program to attract top students
- Computer scientist seeks strategies to keep future cybertraffic flowing
- Constitutional experts analyze Stanford speech case
- Stanford scholar Harvey appointed to Defense Department post
- Engineering dean to take on new industrial relations role
- Bike racks first phase of new program to increase safety, security
- Statement on Corry vs. Stanford University President Gerhard Casper, Stanford University Faculty Senate, Thursday, March 9, 1995
- Biological basis of sexual orientation
- OTL fund awards grants to 31 research teams
- Koh: Asian growth should be seen as opportunity, not threat
- Open meeting scheduled on ethnic studies proposal
- Menlo Park resident spots two mountain lions near SLAC
- Webb, pioneer in organizational behavior, dies at 61
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- Faculty Senate proposes fewer requirements, regular review of CIV
- Deans learn to live with U.S. News ratings
- Six Stanford faculty elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Fewer students sexually active, but condom use still low
- Hing named to advisory panel on Immigration Service
- Interim policy for ADA compliance approved
- Social infrastructure may be key to Silicon Valley economy, dean says
- Promising new approach for modeling molecules
- Heat test sheds new light on nature of novel superconductors
- Reconnaissance mission to assist Stanford planners
- Nominations sought for Gores, Dinkelspiel, Cuthbertson awards
- Engineers will soon use `virtual reality` to design computer chips
- Federal changes lead to a record year for student loans
- More seniors heading straight to graduate school
- Gerald Gunther, law professor, honored by Duquesne University
- Two students arrested for prowling over President's Office
- Lecture series spotlights innovative architecture
- Stanford mails admission offers to 2,900
- Tobias Wolff to read from his works at Stanford
April
- Law professor examines property rights in cyberspace
- Stanford scientists collaborate in development of skeletal repair system
- Information overload is a transitional problem, says computer scientist
- Stanford junior selected for $30,000 Truman scholarship
- Benefit concert for China tour
- Lynn Orr named dean of the School of Earth Sciences
- Stanford troupe performs Moliere with powdered wigs and grit
- Father-son team examine benefits, costs of older fathering
- Elisabeth Pate-Cornell: From physics to human comedy
- NPR`s Sylvia Poggioli reports on Bosnia and pasta
- Today`s museum curators put visitors` interests first
- Six students win prestigious overseas scholarships
- Lecture on meaning of recent Kobe quake for Bay Area
- Koh: U.S., China, Japan hold keys to continued security in East Asia
- History professor David Kennedy shares tips on giving lectures
- New power supply object of joint R&D agreement
- SLAC, HP designing better detector for wafer surface impurities
- More efficient imager for nuclear medicine under development
- Scholar, conference explore birth of cinema
- Navajo Supreme Court to convene at Stanford Law School
- Museum renovation, new wing construction to begin this fall
- Stanford engineers involved in America`s Cup contender design
- Is there a ``hypercar`` in your future?
- Some law students, faculty take stance on Civil Rights initiative
- Eight from Stanford named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Six undergraduates honored for academic achievement
- Revised pay stubs to include additional information
- William Simon, analyst of ethics in the courtroom and boardroom, named to Law School`s endowed Montgomery professorship
- Stanford joins EPA's "Green Lights" partnership
- Parents and Students Converge on Campus for Admit Weekend``
- Overseas Studies staff to speak on campus
- Distinguished panel to discuss Asia at public forum
- Student teachers to present their work at ``Portfolio Conference``
- Humanities and Sciences Dean John Shoven lists the school`s accomplishments over past year
- Rice outlines budgeting process
- Faculty from 15 departments talk over new science core course
- Scientists study recently discovered atmospheric lights called red sprites
- Stanford economist elected to National Academy of Sciences
- Iris Brest leaves Stanford after 24 years``
- Activist Michelangelo Signorile launches gay- pride celebration
- Conference planned in honor of mathematician Robert Osserman
May
- Zare named chair of Annual Reviews, respected scientific publishers
- What matters to me and why: Richard Bube
- Two-hour videobridge links Stanford and Tokyo
- Interested in taking a study tour of Switzerland?
- Campus leaseholders schedule annual meeting
- Research center director awarded medal by Japan
- Search for new dean of the School of Engineering begins
- Educators say inner-city youth responsible for their $150,000 prize
- Avoid Earth`s bankruptcy: Link environment and economy, says Wirth
- Summer School for 7th, 8th graders, student teachers to be offered
- Phase One of work on new quad to begin in mid-May
- Committee on Research Schedules Open Meeting May 11
- New report on human rights in United States analyzed
- Unique ``Athlete`s Body`` conference scheduled for May 11- 13
- Albert Hale, president of the Navajo Nation, to speak
- New Internet window on Japan officially opens
- ``Hoops for Hope`` tourney to benefit East Palo Alto youth
- SEQ information center to remain open through June
- Stanford hosts 24th annual Powwow May 12-14
- McConnell: Respect, support student participation
- Mahood elected to chair Faculty Senate next year
- Geophysicists find rumblings at start of earthquakes
- State of the School Address
- Mathematician describes shape of the visible universe
- Knight Journalism Fellows named at Stanford
- Science Design Core Interim Report to Faculty Senate
- Four honored for teaching with Bing Fellowships
- Affirmative action important to scholarship, social scientists say
- Stanford starts "buddy" program to match veterans, new hires
- Nursery library challenges previous concepts of reading and literacy
- Free South Africa Fund`s shutdown symbolizes end of an era
- Wacky walk will proceed
- Shakespeare`s Shrew is tamed in 1950s suburbia
- Physician helps students see the humanity in public service
- Developing an interdisciplinary science course for non-majors
- Sports appeal discussed at academic conference
- Shake test of low-cost adobe reinforcement system takes place at Blume Earthquake Center
- Racial stereotyping in sports discussed at academic conference
- Felstiner translates Holocaust poet for American readers
- Engineering student receives finite element analysis award
- Research administrator, four others honored for staff excellence
- President Emeritus Richard W. Lyman to speak on demonstration era
- Thompson chairs NAS committee caught in political barrage
- Sinks and cyanotypes are the stuff of collaborative art
- NAFTA institutions reshaping American relations, scholars say
- Stanford to launch Channel 51 with Cable Co-op
- Stanford receives Sloan grant for on- demand education project
- Stanford receives gift of $8 million for Restoration Fund
- Former dean reflects in book on 100,000 admission decisions
- Yield enhancement efforts pay off ahead of schedule
- Nobel laureate William Sharpe writing a virtual textbook -- online
- Spotlight on arts-technology collaborative
- UCLA`s Camarillo to direct residential education
- Stanford, Wells Fargo to collaborate on new high-tech ID cards
- Three MBA students named as research scholars
- Srikant Datar named best teacher
- Safety, access improvements under way at Frost Amphitheater
- Chances for New Deal repeal debated at federalism conference
June
- Perry to discuss ethics of foreign policy at June 18 commencement
- Daniel Bershader, aerophysics pioneer, dies at 72
- Virtual children`s theater comes to life
- Doctorate surplus in science, engineering is ongoing, researchers say
- New student publication aims for thoughtful discourse
- Grant proposal improvement workshop scheduled for summer
- Muslim baccalaureate speaker to be first in campus history
- Faculty Senate allows proprietary research at SLAC
- LeGuin, Murphy blaze interdisciplinary science-fiction trail
- Commission on Undergraduate Studies presents Faculty Senate with new proposal for distribution requirements
- Joseph Keller honored by the New Jersey Institute of Technology
- First annual sexual harassment report covers 79 allegations
- Too much efficiency not good for higher education, March argues
- Eleven Stanford students honored for service to university
- Cal Poly-Pomona executive named to Stanford facilities post
- New, improved flying disc developed
- Faith teaches chaplain to keep asking `obnoxious` questions
- ``Seeing-eye`` robot demonstrated
- Stanford offers admission to 188 transfer students
- New initiatives proposed in budget to be presented to trustees
- Jam sessions, jazz greats at Stanford summer workshops
- 1995-96 parking permit fees, shuttle improvements announced
- Learning engineering design over the Internet
- Three-day meeting on Mars exploration scheduled June 19-21
- Public meeting on Mars exploration scheduled for June 20
- A brief history of satellite navigation
- Senate approves a series of proposals that will alter undergraduate curriculum requirements
- Explore Greece or tap your toes with Continuing Studies
- Sterling Award given to senior Marianna Davis
- Playwright Hwang addresses Phi Beta Kappa inductees
- Biology versus politics: Saving species, protecting property rights By Dennis Murphy and Lynn Dwyer
- Two new associate directors for Institute for International Studies
- David Henry Hwang -- profile of a playwright
- Gores teaching awards given to five Stanford scholars
- First Ph.D.s awarded in Future Professors of Manufacturing program
- Renovation of athletics area scheduled to be completed by fall
- Four honored for contributions to undergraduate education
- Update on congressional budget actions
- Pipeline projects at White Plaza, Campus Drive East scheduled this summer
- Ad Hoc Committee on the Professoriate presents Interim Report to Faculty Senate
- Ida M. Hoover, faculty widow, community volunteer, dies
- Former university counsel honored for service to Stanford
- Dickson, Kennedy and Thompkins speak at Class Day
- Stanford business Professor Whang traces ups and downs of supply chain management
- Secretary of Defense Perry defends Bosnia, nuclear policies
- Making sense of the changes facing U.S. manufacturers
- Engineering complex devices over the Internet
- Briefing by President`s science adviser on budget for science
- Stanford`s 104th commencement
- ``New programs launched to help staff during shift to new administrative systems``
- Board of Trustees approve the 1995-96 Budget
- Islamic studies scholar delivers baccalaureate address
- Mechanical Engineering`s Sheppard wins Rhodes Prize
- Business School`s top academic award goes to Gordon Holmes
- Cellular phone equipment being installed at Stanford foothills
- Butterfly research spells hope for endangered species
- Hopkins' Epel honored for fostering undergraduate research
- Hopkins' Epel honored for fostering undergraduate research
- Global companies must add value, not simply be bigger, speakers tell conference on global manufacturing
July
- Seventeen from Stanford earn Fulbright, related grants
- Stiglitz defends administration`s position on Japanese trade
- Video animation helps explain gamma-ray pulsar geometry
- Exhibit to spotlight recent art acquisitions
- Stiglitz suggests reform of student loan program
- Stanford adopts new policy on workplace violence
- Stanford students win national aerial robotics competition
- Reed Brimhall resigns from Stanford to accept new position
- Former Stanford fire chief Frank Jurian dies at 70
- Three daring young men with their flying machine
- Economist Boskin to head review of consumer price index
- Proposed cuts in federal funding for tuition reimbursement costs
- Physicists propose device to create ``molecules`` of light
- New trustees named
- Feigelson wins international crystal growth prize
- University of Maryland's Wais named Stanford dean of students
- Gene therapy decreases damage to rats' brains after seizure
August
- New Language Center director appointed
- Jazz masters jam at Stanford
- Summer interns study Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Research results challenge 'Bell Curve' analysis, present new information in the debate over affirmative action
- R&D Magazine names Calvin Quate its Scientist of the Year
- Congressmen take hands-on tour of research projects
- Out of the archives, onto the Internet
- Raiders tickets available to students, faculty, staff
- Orchestra's tour of China hits high notes
- Three Stanford professors win NEH grants
- Campus Drive East work scheduled for this summer
- Terry Castle stands by Jane Austen review
- Stereotypes found to affect performance on standardized test
- Employees asked to confirm home addresses
- Leading figure in organic chemistry dies at 82
- Marketing Professor Robert Davis dies
- E-mail, web sites: No more pencils, no more books?
- Hoover '1945' exhibit highlights personal war stories
- Stanford to help plan new Native American Education Programs
- McCluskey receives major information processing award
- University assesses how federal budget battle will affect research
- Longtime staff member Philip Curry dies at 45
- New information technology slowly transforming construction industry
- Chemistry grad student Hughes dies at 24
September
- Chances of worldwide plagues increasing, scientists say
- Parole violator arrested, also held on weapons charges
- Orientation '95 features Casper 'On Playing Hamlet'
- Channel 51 debuts on Sept. 27
- Business Wire founder Lokey funds new visiting professorship
- George Fisher, criminal and trial law expert, joins law faculty
- President Gerhard Casper to speak on motto Oct. 5
- Channel 51 debuts
- Indian art works showcase many cultures
- Mentors being recruited for Asian American sophomores
- Moses chairs major study of needle exchange programs
- Fathers of communications satellites receive Draper Prize
- Casper welcomes new students, parents to Stanford
- Stanford scientist receives National Medal of Science
- Stanford alum Schwab, wife, make lead gift for GSB housing
- New book looks behind the scenes of German unification
- Flu shots available through Dec. 5 at Cowell
- October is career month at Career Planning and Placement Center
October
- Memorial service to be held Oct. 7 for former Cal chancellor
- Computers help talented youth learn faster at home than in school
- Space shuttle test based on theories developed at Stanford
- Casper makes statement on affirmative action
- Employees invited to homecoming weekend activities
- Oct. 11 service scheduled for student who died
- 'Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching' series continues this fall
- Linguist Sells wins Hoagland Prize for teaching excellence
- Faculty will speak at public forum on affirmative action
- Law school to launch $50 million campaign during alumni weekend
- Stanford at forefront of trend toward smaller, localized transit
- Ireland's president to deliver lecture on changing constitutional law
- Annual charitable giving campaign opens
- Martin Perl awarded 1995 Nobel Prize in physics
- Program that links human biology, behavior celebrates 25th year
- Mahood succeeds Simoni as Faculty Senate chair
- New Faculty Club board elected
- Stanford announces record number of gifts, givers
- Stanford physicist wins international Science for Art prize
- Numerous construction projects on campus this fall and beyond
- Homecoming Weekend features panels, parties, and yes - a football game
- "Senate members question details of new policy on restricted funds"
- The meaning of tau
- "Stanford participates in 'Day of Discussion' on affirmative action"
- Symposium to explore complex issues of genetic testing, technology
- A conversation with President Gerhard Casper
- Irish president: Washington, Brussels face 'strong localizing impulse'
- Walkable, bike-friendly communities subject of workshop Oct. 30-31
- Report recommends more support be provided for teaching improvement
- Sexual harassment policy modifications proposed
- Student Affairs vice provost outlines goals for 1995-96
- Strong employment picture for 1995 Stanford Business School MBA grads
- Classics goes high-tech at Stanford
- Construction begins on renovated museum
- Retirement plans to be consolidated under new plan
- Graduate students continue sessions on faculty values
- Columnist Ellen Goodman to teach at Stanford
- California Supreme Court confirms Christian Science settlement
- Text of draft policy on sexual harassment
- Earth scientists to expand studies of ocean margins
November
- Provost Condoleezza Rice presents new policy on budgets of "restricted" funds
- Office of President and Provost sets new policy on restricted funds
- John L. Hennessy named new engineering dean (11/95)
- New publication outlines steps toward early graduation
- Minority program initiated
- World premiere of two one-act plays
- Science core to report to Faculty Senate
- Faculty challenge plan to phase out Food Research
- Scholars grapple with ethical issues of Genome Diversity Project
- $32 million program to develop holographic storage begins
- Recommendations to improve advising debated
- Suspects arrested in Big Game-related vandalism
- Man arrested for indecent exposure
- Complex members of drug-rich family of proteins created in test tube
- Stanford space experiment designed to take Sun's pulse
- Editor's Advisory: Economists to discuss consumption tax proposals Dec. 1
- Advisory Board continues deliberations on Food Research Institute
- MRI can be used to diagnose coronary artery problems
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- Universities should restore spiritual side, says Professor Martin Hellman
- Latest action on the federal budget front
December
- New trustee appointed to Board of Trustees; three re- elected
- Starting next year, minors will be offered
- Casper withdraws Strategic Communications Plan
- Adapting technology for disabled people
- Panel accepts Food Research Institute closure, wants improved transition plan
- Sexual harassment policy revisions addres confidentiality, records
- Scientists use business argument to gain funds for basic research
- Lyons named chair of Alumni Association's board of directors
- Geophysicists map youngest section of San Andreas Fault
- Mexican peso crisis illustrates distortion in some currency markets
- Surprisingly long-lived coronal hole
- Early Mars may have been more friendly to life than Earth
- Research coordinator, art librarian honored with O'Neill Awards
- Earthquake precursors: a cautious report from Parkfield
- How tsunamis gain destructive power
- Precise regional aircraft navigation by satellite demonstrated
- Holiday celebrations for 301 Stanford applicants