New humanities grants announced

Tenured and tenure-track faculty to receive $5,000
By Heather Heistand
NEWS| In a move that earned him a standing ovation from the Faculty Senate at the end of last quarter, President Hennessy announced a new pilot program to give all tenured and tenure-track humanities faculty $5,000 yearly grants to cover research costs.

Longtime Haas Center administrator departs

By Kelley Fong
NEWS| The Haas Center lost an influential leader and one of its original staff members in Jeanne Wahl Halleck, who retired in November from the position she had held for more than 20 years.

Nap your way to success

By Emma Trotter
NEWS| A recent Stanford study has revealed that napping during the day, far from sapping cognitive abilities, actually improves attentiveness and working efficiency — a fact which many Stanford students seem to have known all along.

Students jump into e-business

By Clay Bavinger
NEWS| Last fall, Management Science and Engineering Prof. Ashish Goel charged the students in his Internet commerce course with a task that still eludes Silicon Valley elites: to create a profitable Internet-based business.

Stanford remembers King’s dream

By Ben Eppler
NEWS| Several on-campus events are scheduled to honor the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. during the month of January.

Google to assist telescope project

By Camila Tapernoux
NEWS| Google announced plans last week to join Stanford and 18 other universities in the construction of a telescope with a three-billion pixel digital camera —the largest such camera ever built — which will be able to survey the entire visible sky every three nights for a ten-year period when it is completed in 2013.

Mr. Hennessy goes to China

By Laura Rumpf
NEWS| Business School students embarked on a week-long study trip to China last week, visiting Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.