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Institutions RSS FeedsMaher retires as associate registrar - Susan Maher retired from her position as associate registrar for the university from on Friday, Nov. 14 after more than 30 years of service....Feed Source: news-service.stanford.edu Staffers bid farewell to Jane Marcus - Jane Marcus, a longtime information technology employee, retires on Friday after 31 years of service.... 7 new members inducted into Athletic Hall of Fame - Stanford has inducted seven new members into the university's Athletic Hall of Fame.... Dürer?s 'Engraved Passion' on display - The works of Albrecht Dürer, "the greatest printmaker in Western history," and others are featured in the Cantor Center for Visual Art's current exhibition, 'Dürer to Picasso', which opened last week and continues through Feb. 15, 2009.... County planners to hear land-use study - Stanford will present a land-use study Thursday to the Santa Clara County Planning Commission that outlines how it will continue to promote compact development on its central campus and protect natural resources in its 2,200 acres of foothills through 2035.... Bike safety innovation contest announced - The 2008 Invention Challenge will offer prizes to teams of Stanford students who think of new ways to improve bike safety on campus.... Senate approves proposal for library feasibility study - The Faculty Senate last week approved a proposal to analyze the cost and feasibility of revitalizing Stanford's library system by improving the Socrates digital catalog, renovating Green Library to provide rooms for research projects, and building a state-of-the-art library?a home for digital as well as print media?in the center of campus.... Exhibit of primers, readers in Green - American primers and readers published from the late 18th- to mid-20th centuries are on display in Green Library through Dec. 31.... Entrepreneur says green tech must first make economic sense - Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla warned that the world cannot simply conserve its way out of the current environmental crisis and must instead create technology alternatives that are both affordable and widely accepted by consumers across the globe.... At annual pre-Big Game 'Bearial,' Oski given last rites - Members of the Stanford Band led the annual ?Bearial of the Cal Bear? processional, which culminates with the impalement of an effigy of Oski, the UC-Berkeley mascot, on the Claw fountain (officially White Memorial Fountain) in White Plaza.... Thinking about sports - Stanford professors discuss the practice, ethics and structure of Cardinal sports.... Global warming symposium to be held Dec. 3 - A panel of journalists and researchers will gather at Stanford early next month to discuss the localized impacts of climate change.... Nobel winner pushes for banking with a conscience - He helped transform poor women into entrepreneurs and beggars into businesspeople. Now Muhammad Yunus is encouraging the next generation of financial thinkers to follow his lead of putting people in front of profits.... Experts lay out Obama's foreign policy challenges - The self-described "skinny kid with a funny name" is now being called the "world president" in overseas headlines. But even as foreign leaders and opinion makers applaud Barack Obama's move to the White House, he'll have to wrestle with what many say is America's tarnished international reputation.... Precourt Institute awards faculty new round of research grants - The Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency has awarded its second round of competitive research grants to members of the Stanford faculty. Seven proposals will receive a total of $824,000 in seed grants over the next year for projects designed to promote energy-efficient behaviors and technologies.... Copyright © 2008, Typojoe.com. All Rights Reserved. |