1998 News Releases
Below you will find an index to the 1998 news releases from Stanford University.
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January
- Two Fulbright scholarships named for Amy Biehl (1/98)
- Doyle, former president of Board of Trustees, dies (1/98)
- Week-long King Celebration begins January 11 (1/98)
- Suzanna Mak named university's first judicial officer (1/98)
- Former Stanford president, renowned chemist Ken Pitzer, dies (1/98)
- Russian violinist to perform with Stanford symphony (1/98)
- A silver lining in Korea's economic crisis? Perhaps, say democracy scholars (1/98)
- Two new trustees elected; two re-elected (1/98)
- Stanford economist Aoki seeks insiders' view of Japan's reform effort (1/98)
- Director of Athletics reports to the Senate (1/98)
- Gene helps plants to reach for sky . . . but what's it doing for mammals? (1/98)
- Dr. James Comer to speak at School of Education (1/98)
- Enthoven helps doctor managed care (1/98)
- World-renowned experts to launch humanities lecture series (1/98)
- Biological weapons: potential seeds of destruction (1/98)
- National higher education center charts a different course (1/98)
- Applications open for Asia/Pacific Scholars Program (1/98)
- Music faculty to perform Jan. 21 (1/98)
- Shoven will step down as dean in six months (1/98)
- Health economists win award for study of 'defensive medicine' (1/98)
- Visiting sculptor to discuss his work Jan. 27 (1/98)
- World premiere scheduled for Jan. 24 (1/98)
- Latest research casts new doubt on evidence for fossil life in Martian meteorite (1/98)
- Stanford University Press books win prizes (1/98)
- Statisticians dedicate new building, celebrate 50 years (1/98)
- History professor Sheehan receives Germany high honor (1/98)
- California Summit on Race in America scheduled for Jan. 30 (1/98)
- Talent showcase spotlights faculty musicians Jan. 30 (1/98)
- Applications continue on upward trend (1/98)
- Education may be more effective than tax breaks for encouraging Americans to save (1/98)
- Search for extraterrestrial intelligence subject of public lecture (1/98)
- Ethics in Society Program encourages moral reflection (1/98)
- Bill Gates discusses future of information age (1/98)
- Military general likely to succeed Suharto, adviser to Indonesia says (1/98)
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender sponsors seminar (1/98)
- Top scientists challenge colleagues to join Biodiversity Year (1/98)
February
- Writer Grace Paley to speak at Stanford Feb. 9 and 10 (2/98)
- Panelists address issues of race at day-long Stanford summit (2/98)
- Sexual assault in Stanford dorm (2/98)
- CTTL seeks proposals for using technology in teaching (2/98)
- A year to take stock of the world's biodiversity makes sense scientifically, morally, even commercially, scientists say (2/98)
- Christopher Jencks to speak about black-white test scores (2/98)
- Evan Just, former mineral sciences professor, dead at 97 (2/98)
- Stanford signs agreement with two other university libraries (2/98)
- American psyches under the microscope (2/98)
- Observe your actions to know what matters, ethicist advises (2/98)
- Philosopher Richard Rorty to teach at Stanford (2/98)
- Students, staff pitch in to minimize flooding damage (2/98)
- Unz, opponents face off over future of bilingual education (2/98)
- Student retracts report of sexual assault (2/98)
- Robert Walker, founder of overseas studies, dies at 84 (2/98)
- Hoover roundtable on Asian crisis set for Feb. 19 (2/98)
- Senate re-authorizes two interdisciplinary programs (2/98)
- Faculty teams invited to apply for research grants on global issues (2/98)
- Career fair targets liberal arts majors (2/98)
- Leland strives for balance between athletics and academics (2/98)
- Program in Feminist Studies receives advising award (2/98)
- Update on flood damage and recovery to Green, Meyer, Braun and Cubberley Libraries (2/98)
- Memorial celebration for linguist Robert Politzer planned (2/98)
- Stanford sets tuition, changes financial aid policies (2/98)
- Even molecules act like individuals (2/98)
- Ayer, former trustee, dies (2/98)
- Phyllis Wattis gives $3 million to Stanford Museum (2/98)
- The Earth moves . . . synthetic aperture radar takes the snapshot (2/98)
- Space-borne radar to "revolutionize" views of Earth's hazards (2/98)
- The nation's top linguists discuss Ebonics (2/98)
- The romance between geometry and physics (2/98)
- At life's most sensitive stage, embryos cope with stress (2/98)
- James Van Horne honored by Business School faculty (2/98)
- Students air their concerns at open forum (2/98)
- Journel, McCluskey elected to National Academy of Engineering (2/98)
- Casa Zapata hosts Zoot Suit Week (2/98)
- Peggy Hiraoka named director of Human Resources (2/98)
- Economists debate lessons of the Asian financial crisis (2/98)
- Chevron grant helps fuel Stanford Graduate Fellowships program (2/98)
- Christos launch new lecture and symposia series (2/98)
- Engineering buildings for the future (2/98)
- Strong financial markets boost Stanford's endowment (2/98)
- Grad wins university's third Marshall Scholarship for 1998 (2/98)
- Members of H&S dean's search committee announced (2/98)
- 980228sDemographer explores instability of American ethnic identities (2/28)nipp
- New faculty change specifics but not mission of sociology department
- Stanford solar physicists take part in eclipse webcast (2/98)
- Stanford applied physicist receives Franklin medal (2/98)
- 980228sDemographer explores instability of American ethnic identities (2/28)nipp
March
- Registration for Continuing Studies Program starts March 5 (2/98)
- Global Divas perform at Stanford March 7 (3/98)
- Stanford Symphony to perform Dvorák, Stravinsky, Chen Yi (2/98)
- Center receives grant for poverty-related issues in Latin America (2/98)
- Thai princess visits campus faculty, students, classes (2/98)
- Architect Peter Eisenman to speak at Stanford (3/98)
- Marion Dwight Hall, active Stanford alumna, died Jan. 30 (3/98)
- Ballet repertory group to make campus debut (3/98)
- Rationality and intelligence subject of Forsythe Lectures (3/98)
- Gregg accepts full-time academic position (3/98)
- Public lecture on future of astronomical research (3/98)
- Sticks and stones may break bones, but words also hurt (2/98)
- Skocpol will deliver 1998 Wesson Lectures (3/98)
- Cost of keeping nation's dams safe could top $1 billion annually (3/98)
- French playwright Hèléne Cixous to speak March 16, 17 (3/98)
- Stanford makes room for more graduate students on campus (3/98)
- ACLU president to speak on pornography and the Internet (3/98)
- Architect Eisenman decries media-mediated culture (3/98)
- School of Education is on the brink of renewal (3/98)
- Stanford Graduate Fellowships' first year: Recruiting the best (3/98)
- ASSU guide reviews approximately 200 courses (3/98)
- Faculty Senate renews interdisciplinary program (3/98)
- Ted Koppel to give commencement address (3/98)
- Program that teaches engineering students about high-tech entrepreneurship receives full funding (3/98)
- 1998 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement awarded to Anne and Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University (3/98)
- Hospitals reduce billing complaints by anticipating them (3/98)
- Cixous envisions the university as a stage (3/98)
- Weaknesses of tobacco settlements focus of seminar (3/98)
- Cornel West to speak at conference on race (3/98)
- Colombian ambassador says country's democracy, rule of law threatened (3/98)
April
- New Beckman Scholars Program to support research by five Stanford undergraduates (4/98)
- Not just men behaving badly (4/98)
- Hawaiian nationalist discusses rights Constitution doesn't recognize (4/98)
- Poet laureate Robert Pinsky to speak at Stanford (4/98)
- Stanford offers admission to 2,455 for Class of 2002 (4/98)
- The South Caucasus: Seeking security at an East/West, South/North crossroads (4/98)
- Trustees discuss future of alumni association (4/98)
- Stanford student named Truman Scholar (4/98)
- New trustee elected (4/98)
- Wender receives national chemistry award (4/98)
- Evolution critical to learning science, authors of new teachers' guide say (4/98)
- Chavez to be remembered in weeklong celebration (4/98)
- Mexican American civil rights leader to speak at Stanford (4/98)
- Economists seek better advice for individual pension investors (4/98)
- Purcell opera to be performed at Stanford May 1-3 (4/98)
- Programmable digital camera takes shape at Stanford (4/98)
- Political scientist George to receive Swedish prize (4/98)
- Take Our Daughters to Work Day (4/98)
- Sloan Foundation names two from Stanford for research fellowships (4/98)
- Humanists, social scientists teaching each other in new institute (4/98)
- Exhibit on 'Sunset Magazine: A Century of Western Living' opens May 12 (4/98)
- Knight Journalism Fellows named at Stanford (4/98)
- Stanford technology to deliver television, high-speed computer access over existing phone lines (4/98)
- Stanford statistician elected to National Academy of Sciences (4/98)
- Students receive Galarza and Islas Prizes (4/98)
- Scientific "battle" over the origin and fate of the universe (4/98)
- Latina activist discusses strategies to fight discrimination (4/98)
- California's largest Powwow to be held at Stanford (4/98)
May
- Better late than never, 60-year-old thesis on New York society published (5/98)
- Better late than never, 60-year-old thesis on New York society published (5/98)
- Assessing the costs of the millennium computer bug (5/98)
- Harvard professor to give Heyns Lecture in Religion and Society (5/98)
- Panel expects three challenges for competitive electricity markets (5/98)
- Gingrich discusses Social Security, other reform ideas at Hoover (5/98)
- Senate discusses long-range planning for tenured faculty (5/98)
- To Robert Waymouth, teaching is an ongoing experiment (5/98)
- Diversification of faculty inches forward (5/98)
- Six named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (5/98)
- Critic Harold Bloom to speak at Stanford May 18 and 19 (5/98)
- English professor explores history of opera in new book (5/98)
- Seminal figure in the history of semiconductor physics to deliver new lecture series (5/98)
- Comments from Stanford University Athletic Director Ted Leland regarding today's New York Times story on Nike's proposed changes in its overseas labor practices (5/98)
- Science Online available to Stanford community (5/98)
- Pioneer health educator Oliver E. Byrd dies (5/98)
- Symposium on May 16 to discuss Gary Snyder's epic poem (5/98)
- International Knight Fellows named at Stanford (5/98)
- Stanford Alumni Association Board of Directors votes to merge association with Stanford University (5/98)
- Sonia Sanchez to speak at Malcolm X commemoration on May 22 (5/98)
- Anthropology Department likely to divide into two units (5/98)
- Solar flare leaves Sun quaking (5/98)
- Americans aren't the only voters too busy for politics, China scholar finds (5/98)
- Solar sounds inspire music (5/98)
- Cells say the darndest things (5/98)
June
- Stanford economist Avner Greif among 29 MacArthur fellows (6/98)
- Harvey Hall, Stanford's fourth registrar, dies at 89 (6/98)
- Summer lecture series on aerospace science and technology (6/98)
- Applied Physics adds undergraduate degree (6/98)
- Professors urge U.N. to critically assess costs of global drug war (6/98)
- Patell wins Distinguished Teacher Award (6/98)
- Robots stalking robots stalking robots (6/98)
- Giant SHRIMP poised to target big questions with tiny ion beam (6/98)
- Stanford publishes book about Sunset magazine (6/98)
- Malcolm Beasley named dean of School of Humanities and Sciences (6/98)
- Drell wins first Pomeranchuk Prize (6/98)
- Hall to hold endowed chair in Hoover and Economics Department (6/98)
- Bay Area high school students win honors at national math competition (6/98)
- Political scientist North to be honored for international studies (6/98)
- Zare awarded Harvard alumni achievement medal (6/98)
- Ocean research in the news (6/98)
- Aoki wins prize for his comparisons of economic institutions (6/98)
- Geophysicist Zoback to receive 'exceptional service' award (6/98)
- Five to be honored for contributions to undergraduate education (6/98)
- English Professor Al Gelpi on British poet C. Day Lewis (6/98)
- Students pick enthusiastic, clear, accessible teachers for Gore awards (6/98)
- Stanford professor examines 1926 in new book of essays (6/98)
- Holloway, Blacker chosen to lead Institute for International Studies (6/98)
- South Korean president draws large crowd of admirers to campus (6/98)
- Law School graduates 215 students and honors Professor Barbara Allen Babcock (6/98)
- Stanford University Library launches electronic journal marketing group (6/98)
- Highwire Marketing Group announces worldwide network of sales agents (6/98)
- Scientific panel concludes some UFO evidence worthy of study (6/98)
July
- Copying nature's chemistry (7/98)
- Hodgson named head of SLAC's Synchrotron Division (7/98)
- The boundless José Sarukhán (6/98)
- Solar physics spacecraft in serious trouble (7/98)
- Sidney Drell retires on July 31 (7/98)
- Team to assess earthquake vulnerability of transportation networks (7/98)
- Stanford offering its first complete online degree program (7/98)
- The X-ray laser may soon become a reality (7/98)
- Two new sculptures installed at renovated museum (7/98)
- Political, economic impact of European monetary union debated (7/98)
- Trost wins national "green chemistry" award (7/98)
- Particle beams clash for first time at new collider (7/98)
- Asymmetric B Factory (7/98)
August
- New satellite tags track movements of Atlantic bluefin tuna (8/98)
- St. Lawrence String Quartet to join Stanford University as Ensemble-in-Residence (8/98)
- SLAC's Asymmetric B-Factory passes major milestone (8/98)
- Technology, longer lives leading to higher national health bills (8/98)
- SLAC lecture on next wave in information technology (8/98)
- Wonderfest 98 hits Stanford, Bay Area (8/98)
- Brain regions identified that influence what we remember or forget (8/98)
- Generation X not so special: Malaise, cynicism on the rise for all age groups (8/98)
- Edward L. Ginzton, co-founder of Varian Associates, dies at 82 (8/98)
- Smart farming practices can reduce nitrogen pollution (8/98)
- Plant biologist Paul Green dies at age 67 (8/98)
September
- Margaret Jewell Mullen, dance divisoin pioneer, dies (9/98)
- New optical detector could revolutionize astronomy (9/98)
- World Intellectual Property Organization to hold hearing on Internet domain name system (9/98)
- Online mentoring program started for women in science, engineering (9/98)
- Stanford wins $2 million grant to attract undergrads to science(9/98)
- Paul Brest, dean of the law school, to step down in August (9/98)
- Education reform expert joins Stanford faculty (9/98)
- Encryption control may encourage crime, not prevent it, Hoover scholar says (9/98)
- A sentimental send-off for a dowdy old friend (9/98)
- Sand Hill Road project gets green light (9/98)
- Mapping the maize genome is subject of new $13 million program (9/98)
October
- Economists debate merits of various Social Security schemes (10/98)
- Fraternity loses house following alcohol-related accident (10/98)
- History Professor Clay Carson to publish King autobiography (10/98)
- August Wilson to give Martin Luther King Celebration keynote (10/98)
- Stanford dedicates new Center for Buddhist Studies (10/98)
- Energy industry reform set back, not stopped, by financial turmoil (10/98)
- A Nobel laureate's take-no-prisoner's approach to the'global' economic crisis (10/98)
- African landscape shaped by single magma plume (10/98)
- Rice discusses pitfalls of teaching foreign policy making (10/98)
- U.S. likely to maintain troops in Asia for foreseeable future, scholars say (10/98)
- Lessons for those who want to replicate Silicon Valley (10/98)
November
- Anthropologists to discuss Amazonians' role in conservation (11/98)
- Shrimp and salmon aquaculture depletes worldwide fishing resources, new study finds (11/98)
- Task force appointed to study grievance, disciplinary procedures (11/98)
- Job turnover can't explain male-female wage gap, economist finds (11/98)
- Stanford law Review to sponsor symposium in honor of William Baxter (11/98)
- First direct detection of meteoroid impacts on Saturn rings (11/98)
- Leading computer experts to honor Douglas Engelbart's vision (11/98)
- Study reports Native Americans may have come from Siberia (11/98)
- Stanford expert says policy-makers need to get beyond language in assessing bilingualism (11/98)
- Rethinking Russia's place in history, art and politics (11/98)
- Intelligence agencies urge scientists to join fight against biological, chemical weapons (11/98)
- Senate endorses change in copyright policy (11/98)
- Education conference weighs role of private sector (11/98)
- Differences in brain function found for attention deficit disorder. (11/98)
- Marguerite hours extended (11/98)
- Differences in brain function found for attention deficit disorder (11/98)
- Nobel Laureate Richter to step down as director of SLAC (11/98)
- Nobel Laureate Richter to step down as director of SLAC (11/98)
- Stanford University Online Learning Forum Available Live on the Web (11/98)
- Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka to speak at Stanford on Nov. 30 (11/98)
- Prominent mathematician dies at 85 (11/98)
- The Martian underground was safe place for early life (11/98)
December
- High-tech device dramatically speeds recovery from hypothermia (12/98)
- Microsoft no monopolistic threat to Internet, economist says (12/98)
- The 'bug' problem greater than man-made biological weapons (12/98)
- Stanford to alter tuition benefits for employees (12/98)
- Plan for 'retirement' career, Seagram's chairman advises students (12/98)
- Searching for life on Jupiter's moon Europa (12/98)
- Filamentary structure of atmospheric sprites confirmed (12/98)
- Stanford plays major role in $60 million semiconductor research project (12/98)
- Condoleezza Rice to complete her service as Stanford Provost in June (12/98)
- Some smelter slags represent a significant environmental hazard (12/98)
- Stanford offers admission to Early Decision applicants (12/98)
- B-Factory leader Dorfan named third director of SLAC (12/98)
- U.S., Latin American mayors to discuss urban crises Jan. 11 (12/98)