The Stanford Daily

Author: Leslie Georgatos

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Ceremony honors Boothe Prize winners

By Leslie Georgatos
NEWS| The Faculty Club’s Gold Lounge played host last night to a ceremony honoring the 12 awardees for this year’s Boothe Prize for Excellence in Writing.

RoboMemo remobilizes working memory

By Leslie Georgatos
NEWS| I'm going to give you a sequence of numbers. 1.4.5.7.8. Now, try repeating them backward. Congratulations, you've just exercised your working memory.

Annual Spring Faire this weekend

By Leslie Georgatos
NEWS| This Mother’s Day weekend, more than 100 vendors will converge in White Plaza to participate in Spring Faire, the annual fine arts and crafts festival benefiting the Bridge Peer Counseling Center.

GSC looks at two vacant positions

By Leslie Georgatos
NEWS| With the ongoing construction of the Munger dorm, physical changes to graduate student life are readily apparent around campus.

Police Blotter: Suspicious writings, phone calls abound

By Leslie Georgatos
NEWS| Thursday, April 27 n The Menlo Park Police Department recovered a stolen golf cart in the San Francisquito creek. n Three bike thefts occurred outside Florence Moore Hall.

Arts in the 21st Century: An Educational Mission

By Leslie Georgatos
NEWS| How to incorporate the arts into a 21st century curriculum was the crux of yesterday’s Academic Council meeting, where President John Hennessy gave his yearly address in Cubberley Auditorium.

Faculty flesh out 2010 admissions

By Leslie Georgatos
NEWS| Well-timed considering the thousands of prospective freshman on campus for Admit Weekend, new Dean of Admissions Rick Shaw provided insight into how Stanford selected the Class of 2010 and shared his vision for the future of the admissions process at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty Senate.

Center fights Hepatitis B in Asians

By Leslie Georgatos
NEWS| Tucked away in the basement of the Boswell building of Stanford’s Medical Center is the Asian Liver Center (ALC), where 20 dedicated interns and five staff launched their international fight against the “silent killer,” Hepatitis B, among Asian Americans.

Stanford in the lead in race to fight poverty

By Leslie Georgatos
NEWS| Two clicks a day keeps world hunger at bay. At least that is the mantra of Oxfam America's Collegiate Click Drive, a nationwide program for college students to raise money to fight global hunger and poverty, running from Feb.

A cappella groups showcase hard work, originality

By Leslie Georgatos
NEWS| Parents and students will be serenaded this weekend by Talisman and the Mendicants at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 24 in Toyon Lounge.

Proposal system slated for upgrade

By Leslie Georgatos
NEWS| During its bi-weekly meeting Thursday night, the Faculty Senate evaluated the progress of an ongoing project aimed to revitalize Stanford’s system for research proposals.

Jobhunting woes? We've got answers.

By Leslie Georgatos
NEWS| What do you get when you pack over 100 Stanford alumni in communications, law, engineering, health care and other fields into Arrillaga Alumni Center for a day?