Departments
President’s Column - A Long-Term Investment |
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One of Stanford’s greatest strengths is its balanced
combination of undergraduate studies, graduate studies and research.
Stanford now is beginning to raise funds for a major initiative titled
Stanford Graduate Fellowships, starting with a grant of $2 million from the
Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust. Its goal is to raise at least $200
million in permanent endowments. By Gerhard
Casper
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Campus News
Far Fewer Sleepless Nights |
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At a time when federal support for the sciences and
engineering is evaporating rapidly, new fellowships such as Stanford
Graduate Fellowships will augment federally funded research
assistantships. Students who are nominated by their departments and
selected by a faculty committee will be given a tuition voucher of $12,000
and a stipend of $16,000 for each of three
years. By Diane Manuel
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Bass to
Chair Board of Trustees |
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Businessman Robert M. Bass, of Fort Worth, Texas, a
director of the Stanford Management Company, has been elected the 22nd chair
of the Stanford Board of Trustees. Succeeding John Freidenrich, who has
headed the board since 1992, Bass said that his main challenge will be to
maintain the positive momentum set by
Freidenrich. By Marisa Cigarroa
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Campus
News Digest |
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From Russia, With Love - Archives of the Pasternak
family acquired. 
Yield Rate Up - Number of admitted freshmen who decide to enroll up
by 6.3 percent from
last year.
Faculty Diversification - Statistics on percentage of Stanford women
and minority faculty.
Surfing Stanford - University redesigns its home page on the World Wide
Web.
Cartun Retires - Rabbi Ari Cartun leaves Hillel Foundation after 21 years.
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Science & Medicine News
Not Exactly Rocket Science |
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Technology is being developed that will enable physicians
to try out a variety of surgical outcomes before ever stepping into a real
operating room. As part of a collaboration between NASA’s Ames
Research Center and Stanford’s Department of Functional Restoration,
Stanford surgeons now are operating in the realm of “virtual
reality.” By Mike Goodkind
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Donald Knuth Wins
Kyoto Prize |
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Donald E. Knuth, best known as a pioneering mathematician
whose research has been of primary importance in the analysis of computer
algorithms and who is one of the founding fathers of computer science, has been
awarded the 1996 Kyoto Prize, Japan’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize and
the country’s highest private award for lifetime
achievement. By David Salisbury
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Treatment
Tested for Diabetes |
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A potential treatment for juvenile-onset diabetes that
could eliminate the need for insulin shots, is under study at Stanford.
The treatment, which stems from research on rats, is based on implanting
fetal pancreas tissue into the patient’s
forearm. By Rosanne Spector
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Science &
Medicine News Digest |
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Carcinoma Gene Found - Basal cell carcinoma caused by
defective gene.
Eco-Friendly Chips - Reducing environmental impacts of chip manufacturing
using computer-aided design tools.
Controlling Tuberculosis - Comparing effects of various levels of TB
control programs.
New Parasite Discovered - Researchers find deadly human parasite.
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Sports News
Showing Mettle in Atlanta |
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Stanford delivers 49 athletes, coaches and managers to
teams from 11 countries in 11 sports, and plays a part in one of the
real legacies of the Atlanta Olympics: the emergence of women’s sports
from the shadows of athletic
competition. By Mark Zeigler
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Sports
News Digest |
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Cardinal Takes Sears Cup - Stanford wins prestigious collegiate
athletics award.
Athletes Honored - 30 athletes awarded for athletic, academic, leadership and
public service achievements.
Cyclists Wheel to Another Title - Cycling team wins national championship
in road racing.
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Features
Class of 2000 |
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For the members of Stanford’s Class of 2000, lives
will change unalterably in the next nine months in ways they can’t now
begin to imagine. Before classes even begin, these students will encounter
the culture shock that all freshmen undergo, and will be challenged by
having to adjust to a highly competitive academic
environment.
By Marisa Cigarroa
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Cyber Window
on the Student Soul |
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The World Wide Web is an ever-widening global network of
computers, and thousands of Stanford students who have embraced the
Internet have no idea who might be dropping in to gaze at their home
pages - documents that in some cases amount to an electronic window
into their souls.
By Jeff Brazil
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Essay
Ancestor Worship |
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Though Americans are not an especially patriarchal people,
one form of ancestor worship still flourishes: the homage we pay to the
wisdom of “the Founding Fathers.” The most notable form of this
homage is the belief that in interpreting the Constitution our true goal
should be to recover the “original intentions” of its
adopters.
By Jack Rakove
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Recapturing the Pride of Place |
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Leland Stanford designed his new university with a distinct
style characterized by terra cotta roofs, carved sandstone arcades and palm
trees. More than a century after Stanford laid the cornerstone, campus
officials now are trying to restore the spirit of the original plan. Like
other universities that have suffered decades of unchecked development,
Stanford is searching its institutional soul for the appropriate way to
graft new architecture onto
old.
By Michael Cannell
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