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1.14.13Seed grants enable new online courses for Stanford students
The newest cohort of faculty pioneers will teach not only at Stanford, but also in high school, on overseas programs - and throughout the world. One of the grants is being used for a course that launches tomorrow.
Stanford biologists: Equal rights for women a critical first step to avoiding civilization's collapse
Stanford biologists say reducing consumption and promoting women's equality are critical first steps to preventing the collapse of civilization.
Stanford's Bing Concert Hall opens this Friday with soundscape fanfare
A three-minute fanfare packed with sounds shaped and inspired by the Bing Concert Hall - including harbor horns, music student assignments and the hall’s steel beams - will be the first music heard on opening night Friday.
Stanford researchers develop acrobatic space rovers to explore moons and asteroids
An autonomous system for exploring the solar system's smaller members, such as moons and asteroids, could bring us closer to a human mission to Mars.
Stanford football fans near and far catch Rose Bowl fever
On New Year's Day, 39,000 Stanford fans will take their seats at the 99th Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena. In addition, alumni and other fans have organized viewing parties in 20 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and London.
12.20.12
Zinn's influential history textbook has problems, says Stanford education expert
A Stanford education professor says Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" offers bad lessons in historical thinking.
12.14.12
Stanford offers early admission to 725 students
Stanford has sent acceptance letters to 725 high school students who sought admission to the Class of 2017 under the university's early admission program, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admission.
Stanford's newly minted Rhodes Scholars shaped by their own personal narratives
Stanford students who will begin their studies in England next fall include a master's candidate who hopes to become a writer focused on social issues, and a senior who hopes to better understand attitudes toward mental illness.
Stanford expert: 'Black swans' and 'perfect storms' become lame excuses for bad risk management
Instead of reflecting on the unlikelihood of rare catastrophes after the fact, a Stanford expert prescribes how to anticipate them when possible, and to manage them when not.
Stanford researchers' cooling glove 'better than steroids' - and helps solve physiological mystery, too
The temperature-regulation research of two Stanford biologists has led to a device that rapidly cools body temperature, greatly improves exercise recovery, and could help explain why muscles get tired.
Stanford researchers discover the 'anternet'
A collaboration between a Stanford ant biologist and a computer scientist has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants as they forage for food mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet.
6.14.05
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.
