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Overseas campuses not likely
NEWS|
If Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Northwestern and Virginia Commonwealth sound like stops on a college tour of the Eastern United States, think again.
BOSP alters application
NEWS|
Students applying to go abroad now have two tries to match with one of the Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) centers.
Perry speaks on U.S. defense
NEWS|
At yesterday’s Stanford in Government Policy Lunch with Former Secretary of Defense William J.
MPAA backtracks on file sharing claims
NEWS|
College students made up the biggest slice of the film industry’s pie chart for illegal movie downloads until recently. Now Hollywood is revising its numbers.
Student cashes in on YouTube sale
NEWS|
Google has recently come under fire from media companies that claim their footage is being pirated on the YouTube site.
Roosevelt to offer two-unit Public Policy course
NEWS|
Stanford Technology Connects Rural Areas to Medical Centers
CORRECTIONS|
Intelesense Technologies, one of nine spin-off companies generated by the Stanford School of Medicine's National Biocomputation Center, is poised to improve healthcare in Ethiopia with its unique and adaptable telecommunication systems.
BOSP works to put Madrid site on map
NEWS|
Students who imagine taking a study break at a tapas bar with their Stanford peers and new Madrid companeros may soon realize their dreams as the Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) staff work to open a new center in Spain’s major urban center.
Futurist sees world changed by technology
NEWS|
Falling under such titles as inventor, entrepreneur, writer, scientist, filmmaker and computer engineer, Ray Kurzweil is a veritable renaissance man, envisioning a future transformed by artificial intelligence.
New venture to update Chinese medicine
NEWS|
The School of Medicine has recently committed to power a business venture that will provide researchers, consumers and physicians in China with information about advances in Western medicine.
Students play The Game
NEWS|
Think pulling an all-nighter means locking yourself in Meyer with a textbook and gallons of a radioactive green energy drink?
Drinking Without the Hangover
CORRECTIONS|
Imagine waking up on a Sunday morning, feeling healthy and thinking fondly about the previous night's frat party and your impeccable behavior.
Activists describe West Bank violence
NEWS|
Two young human rights activists spoke last night about the Palestinian population of Tel Rumeida, Hebron, a West Bank neighborhood that also contains some of what were considered the most fanatical Israeli settlements.
Stanford profs lead CA education inquiry
NEWS|
Californians lead the nation on industrial, technological and ideological fronts, but when it comes to public education the Golden State trails far behind.
Pentagon listens in on anti-war groups
NEWS|
The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California filed a lawsuit on March 7 demanding the immediate release of information from the Pentagon regarding members of anti-war student groups at UC-Santa Cruz and Berkeley.
Printers will see double
NEWS|
If Residential Computing’s new printing policy proves effective, more students will be flipping through double-sided slide print-outs in lecture next quarter.
Health, low-fat diets not linked
NEWS|
In February, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) published surprising findings that bewildered avid pursuers of low-fat labels in supermarkets.
To rebuild or abandon?
NEWS|
A handful of rain-soaked listeners gathered yesterday evening at 7:30 p.m. to hear a city planner, an engineer and a social scientist speak in Braun Hall about how to prudently approach reconstructing the city of New Orleans.
Stem cell policy changes
NEWS|
A small cross section of California academics, bio-tech executives and patient advocates met on campus Feb. 10th to finalize guidelines that will dictate the way state-funded embryonic stem cell research is conducted in California.
Prof tackles core of human cognition
NEWS|
Last night, Cubberly Auditorium was packed long before Prof. Douglas Hofstadter of Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences took the stage to lecture on his fundamental theory on human cognition in a talk entitled, “Analogy as the Core of Cognition.
Career week kicks off with lib arts fair
NEWS|
A crowd of student job-seekers, some in business attire, converged at the Tresidder Union’s Oak Room at noon yesterday for the Liberal Arts Career and Internship Fair — the first event of the Annual Stanford Career Week, a six-day informational sequence sponsored by the Stanford Career Development Center (CDC).
Martin Luther King Jr. Institute inaugurated
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On the eve of the holiday weekend, Stanford’s Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute appropriately celebrated its recent formation in the Oak Room at Tresidder from noon to 2 p.
Residences prepare for winter quarter ski trips
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After unpacking their things as they return from winter break, many Stanford students will attend only a few classes before packing up again to hit the slopes.
Registrar speaks about
NEWS|
As the quarter nears its end, Stanford students are scrambling to secure summer internships — some that may conflict with Stanford’s notoriously late finals week.
Naija celebrates culture
NEWS|
Students from the Nigerian Student Association, or Naija, and members of the Nigerian dance group Kuumba performed in the cultural show “Who We Be,” which featured Nigerian food, dance, history, music and fashion.
Bionic eye could stimulate sight in blind
NEWS|
A group of Stanford researchers this February unveiled a new technology that could someday simulate vision for the blind.
Fraga slams power of school boards
NEWS|
Political Science Prof. Luis Fraga argued that local school boards have too much power over the public education yesterday before a small crowd in Encina West.