1996 News Releases
Below you will find an index to the 1996 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
- Economists see 'mosaic' of factors contributing to prosperity
- Summer job program places engineering students in high-tech startups
- Stanford humanists hold international conference
- Conference on defense research to be held at Stanford
- Study of foreshocks lends support to concept of a silent start for quakes
- Stanford's Channel 51 goes interactive with McNamara class
- Democratic, Republican economists analyze '96 campaign issues
- Casualty, damage estimates of great quakes revised upward
- Stanford judges award Alfred Kazin lifetime achievement award
- Two new exhibitions at Stanford Art Gallery
- Casper supports plans to close FRI and merge two engineering programs
- Model aircraft flies by itself using satellite navigation sensors
- Great Altar of Pergamon subject of President's Choice Lecture
- Stanford researchers suggest how sleep re-charges the brain
- Researcher explores skills Indian youth can use to say no to suicide
- Trustee, banker Byerwalter named Stanford VP and CFO
- Gates to speak at dedication of computer science building
- Mexico's finance minister describes his year of turmoil
- Futuristic 'flexible lab' classroom opens at Stanford
- The heat is on Latin America to reform its courts
- Hopkins Marine Station: basic science on a living coastline
- A more flexible architecture for parallel processors
- Gates 1 p.m. dedication moved inside; to be televised
- Robot assistants: Mechanical brawn to help human brains
- Researchers demonstrate ability to "fax" 3-D objects
- Mae Jemison to deliver commencement address at Stanford
February
- Columnist Ellen Goodman to speak at Stanford
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Lani Guinier to speak at Stanford conference
- 'Early Decision' admits to make up 35 percent of freshman class
- New facility unites computer science faculty
- Aquarium, Stanford researchers team up to place tunas on view
- Richter to speak at AAAS meeting
- Student misconduct cases show steady increase
- Threats to soil, water put humanity's life supports in peril, biologist says
- Human water use reaching upper physical limit, scientists warn
- Scientists needn't fear "50-foot humanists," philosopher says
- Why psychologists need to study cultural diversity
- Gene enhancement not so different from a nose job, says Hoover scholar
- Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House subject of talk at Stanford
- Drugs, democracy part of Mexico's 'turning point,' scholars say
- Stanford to launch research center for improving higher education
- New trustee named
- Djerassi on birth control in Japan - abortion 'yes,' pill 'no'
- Stanford to raise tuition by 4 percent for 1996-97
- Ramon Cortines, former head of N.Y. schools, to speak Feb. 28
- Man admits firing gun at dance; sorority issues statement
- The hydrogen economy reconsidered
- SLAC announces layoff of 28 people
- "Destiny of Man" subject of public lecture
- Home caregiver arrested for allegedly bilking campus couple
- Status report on technology and teaching commission
- Professor publishes new book on black American history
- Master of Liberal Arts program hosts information session Feb. 29
- Stanford-Berkeley conference to focus on multiethnic nations
- Stanford hosts parents, siblings of students March 1-2
March
- Six scientists named Terman Fellows
- President of Brazil to speak at Stanford March 11
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- Stanford Libraries acquire Black Panther Party collection
- Sloan Foundation names five from Stanford for research fellowships
- Sun V.P. to deliver public lectures on computer interfaces
- Desktop satellites are students' final exam
- Pioneering South African legislator to speak at Stanford
- Brazilian president announces chair in Brazilian studies
- Interstellar molecules detected in the laboratory for the first time
- Price incentives work in health care "managed competition" (3/96)
- Course on cathedrals to be on Channel 51 - for credit
- Workers without bosses: How ants and bees know what to do when (3/96)
- Smart antennas and the radio renaissance
- Rapid DNA probe could lead to low-cost tests for genetic diseases
- New poll finds Californians want some school reforms, not others
- Four Stanford students awarded Truman Scholarships
- Christopher to deliver major policy address at Stanford April 9
- Colin Pittendrigh, "father of biological clock," dies at 77
- Engineering Dean Gibbons honored by semiconductor industry
- Stanford mourns loss of David Packard
April
- Six from Eastern Europe selected for new fellowship program
- Nominations being accepted for staff excellence award
- Libraries acquire major French collection
- South African apartheid foe Helen Suzman receives Ralston Prize
- Athlete sentenced to probation for making annoying phone calls
- Trustees approve clinical sciences research building
- Competition for Fulbright, related grants now open
- Faculty asked to identify Rhodes, Marshall, Churchill candidates (4/96)
- Transcript of press conference April 9
- Christopher challenges academia to aid in environmental initiative
- Economists urge better cost-benefit analysis of government regulations
- Stanford chemist to receive NSF's 1996 Waterman Award
- Center wins award for distance learning
- Economist studies nuclear safety in Russia
- Children again focus of student-run 'Difference' conference
- Election '96 not likely to clarify political shift, experts say
- Haas Center announces 1996-97 John Gardner Fellows
- Two Stanford scientists receive Guggenheim Fellowships
- Perkins named interim judicial affairs officer at Stanford
- Stegner Fellows in Poetry and Fiction announced
- IgNobel editor to air improbable research results April 30
- Seven faculty named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (4/96)
- Who owns what creative product? Scholars find no easy answers
- Ukrainian diplomat to speak at Stanford May 3
- 25th Stanford Powwow scheduled for May 10-12
May
- Knight journalism fellows named at Stanford
- Plant biologist elected to National Academy of Sciences
- Stanford News Service now on World Wide Web
- Stanford initiatives to strengthen education
- Smith, pastor at Allen Temple, to be baccalaureate speaker
- Film festival, conference to mark 10 years of Jewish studies
- Restoration Fund gains $20 million
- Looking at the Sun through new eyes (5/96)
- Quake hazard reporting has pitfalls, journalists find
- Paul and Anne Ehrlich honored with Nuclear Age Peace Awards
- Another divide: American versus Israeli Jewish culture
- Experts on Russia to discuss upcoming presidential election
- Stanford Libraries acquire Saroyan papers
- Conference probes features of American Jewish culture
- Walesa to speak at Stanford May 31
- Summer courses in Continuing Studies Program
June
- Prime parking spaces to cost $310 a year starting this fall
- William Rivers, journalist, media critic, teacher dies
- Russian election too close to call, scholars say
- Third annual Summer Teaching School offered to area 7th, 8th graders
- Can computer chip makers reduce environmental impact?
- Stanford's 'yield rate' increases to 61.4 percent
- Amos Tversky, leading decision researcher, dies at 59
- Estelle Freedman publishes new book on prison reformer
- Stanford to confer nearly 5,000 degrees at commencement
- New labs, aquarium dedicated at Hopkins Marine Station
- Cell biologist Daniel Mazia dies at 83
- Solar incognita: Scientists map unexplored part of sun's interior
- George Somero: Tracking how life survives under harshest conditions
- Space tether redux
- Construction activity, albeit 'low-impact,' to increase
- Freidenrich is confident medical center merger will happen
- Trustees elect new chair
- Bay Area high school students win national math contest (6/96)
- Barbara Block, Anna Deavere Smith win MacArthur grants
- Baccalaureate speech: the "challenge to whom much is given"
- Tom Killefer, former university trustee, chairman of U.S. Trust, dies
- John Gardner honored by Education Commission of the States (6/96)
- Science education innovator Mary Budd Rowe dies at 71 (6/96)
July
- Historian Frederick Bowser dies at 58 (7/96)
- Casper bids "especially affectionate" farewell to Class of 1996 (7/96)
- Physicist Arthur Schawlow inducted into Inventors Hall of Fame (7/96)
- Donald Knuth receives Kyoto Prize, the Japanese "Nobel" (7/96)
- Stanford Magazine receives two national awards (7/96)
- Prepare for big ruptures on Hayward fault, scientists say (7/96)
- Stanford Press, Libraries to publish books on Internet (7/96)
- Four Stanford coaches to head Olympic teams (7/96)
- New exhibition at Stanford Art Gallery (7/96)
- New book assesses Education in a Research University (7/96)
- Why computers have been slow to change large workplaces (7/96)
- Stanford computing: productivity change is also slow here (7/96)
- Eugene Grant, pioneer in quality control, dies at 99 (7/96)
- TV-reliant voters more interested, knowledgeable of candidates' personal characteristics (7/96)
August
- Meteorite yields evidence of primitive life on early Mars (8/96)
- Background: Zare lab method for detecting organic materials in meteorites (8/96)
- Student Evan Chen dies (8/96)
- Stanford Libraries sponsor Copyright and Fair Use Web site (8/96)
- New studies of human brains show stress may shrink neurons (8/96)
- Research designed to improve chip testing (8/96)
- Fall line-up of Continuing Studies Program courses (8/96)
- Journalist William F. Woo to teach at Stanford (8/96)
- GSB Professor Emeritus Herbert Dougall dies (8/96)
- Earth scientists go 3-D with $3.4 million software gift (8/96)
- Future school principals learn under fire in Stanford program (8/96)
- Graduate students, scholars struggling to find rental housing (8/96)
- Ruth Schneider retires after 29 years of service (8/96)
- Stanford engineers help measure the force of T-rex's bite (8/96)
- Lawsuit against Stanford University dismissed (8/96)
- Overbilling suit against Stanford dismissed (9/96)
- Novel 3-D video display technology developed (8/96)
September
- Faculty club employees laid off to make room for new management (9/96)
- New students to arrive Friday, Sept. 20, for 5-day orientation (9/96)
- Harold Mooney named Eminent Ecologist for 1996 (9/96)
- Justice Kennedy urges law students to set example for rest of world (9/96)
- Hague, Washington officials to participate in conference on war crimes (9/96)
- New fellowship endowed in civil engineering (9/96)
- Asymmetric B Factory (9/96)
- Schawlow to receive American Innovator Award (9/96)
- Networking lessons from the Silicon Valley (9/96)
- Sophomore College opens doors to opportunities (9/96)
- Memorial service for student Evan Chen (9/96)
- Workshop on "engendering" the curriculum (9/96)
- Professor Emeritus Roger Gray dies
- Beyond browsing on the Internet
- SSRL receives added support to extend operations (9/96)
- WorkLife Center offers wide array of support services (9/96)
- Stanford named one of top 100 companies for working mothers (9/96)
- Dance concert on October 12 (9/96)
- President Casper gives new students advice about making choices (9/96)
- Ceremony to mark endowment for new Korean Studies professorship (9/96)
- Timothy Wirth, undersecretary of state for global affairs, to speak Oct. 11 (9/96)
October
- Casper says university will still need to raise more money (10/96)
- World's local electronic net pioneers discuss successes, frustrations (10/96)
- Stanford has record-breaking year raising funds (10/96)
- Stanford Business School welcomes record-setting MBA class (10/96)
- Political scientist Sagan honored with prize for teaching (10/96)
- Search begins for Science, Technology, Society director (10/96)
- Six young faculty members named Terman Fellows (10/96)
- Professor Gerald Wentworth dies (10/96)
- Ellen Woods takes on additional responsibilities (10/96)
- Poet Laureate Robert Hass to speak at Stanford (10/96)
- William Beaver named to Accounting's Hall of Fame (10/96)
- New book by Paul and Anne Ehrlich strikes back at "brownlash" (10/96)
- English professor's new novel satirizes academic life (10/96)
- Faculty Senate gears up for busy year (10/96)
- Despite small departments, physics has enviable Nobel record (10/96)
- Middle-of-night call signals new Nobel (10/96)
- Technology historians honor economist Rosenberg (10/96)
- Lawyers discuss innovations in mass personal injury lawsuits (10/96)
- Tuition benefit to be maintained for current staff (10/96)
- New director seeks to strengthen undergraduate advising (10/96)
- Dance division joins drama department (10/96)
- Casper encourages input on housing issues, disciplinary procedures (10/96)
- High-tech workers become new focus of immigration debate (10/96)
- Conference on French poet Mallarmé at Stanford (10/96)
- Poland's political, economic changes to be conference topic (10/96)
- Stanford Professor Lee Shulman to head Carnegie Foundation (10/96)
- Four Stanford scientists selected as 1996 AAAS Fellows (10/96)
- Senators discuss new teaching evaluation forms (10/96)
- Economist writes rulebook to discourage speculation in currency markets (10/96)
- The gender gap in politics goes deeper than a liberal-conservative split (10/96)
- University's financial framework will be replaced (11/96)
November
- Former world leaders to discuss future of nuclear deterrence (11/96)
- New director of choral studies to broaden musical horizons (11/96)
- Casper will take stock of the university's resources (11/96)
- Former Solidarity leaders, scholars dissect Polish transition (11/96)
- Colombian journalist honored for coverage of news media (11/96)
- Native American professor publishes new book on American Indian movement (11/96)
- Stay tuned: Weather reports from Mars (11/96)
- Committee presents draft recommendations to overhaul student judicial systems
- Bonfire set for Wilbur (11/96)
- Casper outlines "State of the University" (11/96)
- Split government not expected to get much done, election watchers say (11/96)
- It helps to have a foot in the door (11/96)
- Misreading the competition hurts (11/96)
- GSB Professor Srinivasan wins top award (11/96)
- Russia's Alexander Yakovlev to speak at Stanford Nov. 19 (11/96)
- Rowen predicts democracy for China in 20 years (11/96)
- Historian's new book traces internment of Japanese American professor (11/96)
- Research centers announce 1996 prize for Eastern European scholars (11/96)
- Dismantling nuclear arsenals likely to be long process, panelists say (11/96)
- Feminist studies professor describes defining decades in her life (11/96)
- Politics growing problem due to internationalization of science (11/96)
- Universities plan to add minority Ph.D.s in post-Prop. 209 climate (11/96)
- "You own your own education" (11/96)
- Infectious disease threat requires directed research thrust, biologist says (11/96)
- Latest African crisis shows weakness of post-Cold War policy, scholars say (11/96)
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- Interim report on revised CIV program goes to Faculty Senate (11/96)
- Proposal for program in comparative studies of race, ethnicity (11/96)
- HighWire Press a pioneer in moving scientific journals online (11/96)
- Drell honored with Wick Award (11/96)
- Mathematician Keller wins Wolf Foundation Prize (11/96)
December
- Six Stanford faculty members elected 1996 APS Fellows (11/96)
- Pensions can become a tax trap for some Americans, economists say (12/96)
- English professor a specialist in material culture (12/96)
- Winter courses in Continuing Studies Program (12/96)
- Vice Provost Edmonds gives State of Student Affairs address (12/96)
- New ethnic studies program approved (12/96)
- Marshall O'Neill Awards announced (12/96)
- Rickford discusses how to teach through discussions (12/96)
- Senators grapple with structure of freshman seminars (12/96)
- Faculty Senate will hear status report on Stanford Introductory Studies (12/96)
- Robert Gregg awarded the alumni association's Lyman prize
- Stanford-developed radar technique used in reported discovery of ice on the moon (12/96)
- Live broadcast of Nobel Prize festivities (12/96)
- Biology Professor Sapolsky on "What Matters to Me and Why" (12/96)
- Rice outlines budget pressures for fiscal year 1998 (12/96)
- Securities Class Action Clearinghouse launched (12/96)
- Policy of free Internet access for students is being examined (12/96)
- Stanford senior named Rhodes scholar, two receive Marshalls (12/96)
- Thunderstorms have flickering, high-altitude halos (12/96)
- Are postage stamps going the way of the horse and buggy? (12/96)
- Background: The science behind the gene for sexual behavior (12/96)
- Scientists identify gene for sexual behavior in male flies (12/96)
- First-Light declared at Hobby-Eberly Telescope (12/96)
- Stanford offers admission to first-round of students (12/96)
- Economic historians ask: How natural were American natural resources? (1/97)
- Pinning down the position of the solar dynamo (12/96)