The Stanford Daily

Author: Chuan-Mei Lee

Innovation Editor

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Podcasting: Journalism for the masses?

By Chuan-Mei Lee
NEWS| Mehdi Yahyanejad, a post-doctoral fellow specializing in bioinformatics at Stanford, typically spends Thursday evenings with a microphone and a laptop computer.

Yapping it up: Grad students form Internet phone startup

By Chuan-Mei Lee
NEWS| Roommates Ray Chen and Harrison Tang, both master’s students in electrical engineering, envision a world in which the Internet replaces traditional landline telephone networks.

Women politicians discuss barriers

By Chuan-Mei Lee
NEWS| Oakland Councilmember Desley Brooks and Washington Court of Appeals Judge Mary Kay Becker spoke on a panel focusing on women’s role in politics last night as part of the Women’s Community Center’s month-long Herstory celebration.

Students pack in for Zuckerberg, sushi

By Chuan-Mei Lee
NEWS| It was standing room only in the Oak East Room at Tresidder Memorial Union last night as several hundred students squeezed in to hear the founders of Thefacebook.

Phone scammers offer fake grant money

By Chuan-Mei Lee
NEWS| Last Sunday, freshman Danielle Lostaunau answered a call on her cell phone and was told that she had been chosen to receive a very special $8,000 grant.

SAID sponsors health panels

By Chuan-Mei Lee
NEWS| Roughly 250 Stanford students, faculty and community members registered to attend the fourth annual Stanford Conference on International Development on Saturday at the Graduate School of Business.

F.D.A. stalls morning-after pill decision again

By Chuan-Mei Lee
NEWS| Over Thanksgiving break, a female Stanford student awoke to the scary realization that she had less than 72 hours to obtain a morning-after pill.

A novel on your cell phone?

By Chuan-Mei Lee
INNOVATION| Can computers and machines persuade people to think or act a certain way? They already do. They convince teens that caring for an infant is hard work. They motivate smokers to quit smoking. And they persuade online book customers to buy more books.

Vitamin ABCs: What does your body need?

By Chuan-Mei Lee
NEWS| Walking down the vitamin aisle at Safeway can be a baffling experience. Should you take a mutli-vitamin? Separate supplements? There are dozens of different vitamins and dietary supplements being sold. Given all of these choices, it’s often hard for even the smartest Stanford student to know what to take.

Feel guilty if you're not studying all the time? You may be a workaholic

By Chuan-Mei Lee
NEWS| It’s 11 p.m. on a Friday night. People are heading over to SAE or Bob or wherever there might be booty-shaking music. But not the 30 or so students still hard at work in Meyer Library. Is it just midterm season? Or is there a subculture of workaholism at Stanford?