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  • April 2008

    • Congratulations! ...Possibly

      newser  |  Sports Illustrated  |  Apr 16, 08 11:59 AM CDT

      Congratulations! ...Possibly

      Most people will never get a full football scholarship offer from a big-name university. But those masses need not wonder what such letters look like: high school quarterback Tate Forcier has posted his collection of sometimes fawning, sometimes caveat-laden recruiting letters online. Sports Illustrated breaks down the coaches' voices, the letterhead style, and the legalese woven into those letters. More »

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      NCAA  • football  • Stanford University  • Oklahoma State Cowboys  • University of Washington  • University of Michigan  • Penn State  • athletic recruiting

    • Condi Debunks Veep Rumors

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 8, 08 6:32 AM CDT

      Condi Debunks Veep Rumors

      Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has once again quashed speculation that she is seeking the vice presidential nomination as John McCain's running mate, reports the Washington Post . A McCain-Rice ticket would satisfy many of McCain's conservative critics and represent a formidable challenge to a Dem ticket headed by a woman or African American. More »

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      John McCain  • Iraq war  • Condoleezza Rice  • State Department  • vice president  • foreign policy  • Stanford University  • Grover Norquist

  • March 2008

    • Stanford Dig Combines Sleuthing, Classwork

      newser  |  Bloomberg  |  Mar 20, 08 5:53 PM CDT

      Stanford Dig Combines Sleuthing, Classwork

      Stanford University has found a way to give archeology students valuable excavation experience without leaving campus, Bloomberg reports, and hopes to find out why an enormous gymnasium couldn't withstand the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The gym was intended as a signature building for the young school. "They thought if they built that building, it would stand for 500 years," an official said. More »

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      San Francisco  • earthquake  • construction  • Stanford University  • Stanford  • gym

    • HGH Builds Muscles, Not Strength: Study

      newser  |  San Jose Mercury News  |  Mar 18, 08 10:15 AM CDT

      HGH Builds Muscles, Not Strength: Study

      Human growth hormone certainly builds muscles, but it may not make athletes faster or stronger. "What we found suggested that it didn't help—and at some point, it might hurt," said the lead investigator on the Stanford research study. So why, the San Jose Mercury News wonders, do sports stars risk their careers by turning to HGH? More »

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      athlete  • human growth hormone  • Stanford University  • muscle mass

    • Berkeley, Stanford Partner with Saudi University

      newser  |  San Jose Mercury News  |  Mar 5, 08 2:45 AM CST

      Berkeley, Stanford Partner with Saudi University

      Berkeley and Stanford University will help choose faculty and develop curricula for a new university in Saudi Arabia, reports the San Jose Mercury News . The graduate-level King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, funded by a $10 billion gift from the king, will focus on fields like petrochemicals and nano-technology when it opens in September 2009. University of California administrators said they agreed to the deal only with assurances that women would be treated equally. More »

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      Saudi Arabia  • King Abdullah  • higher education  • mathematics  • Stanford University  • UC Berkeley  • nanotechnology

  • February 2008
  • December 2007

    • Nike Founder Just Does Lit

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 3, 07 2:37 PM CST

      Nike Founder Just Does Lit

      Phil Knight had a seat at the front of the Nike boardroom for decades, but he sits in the back when he takes creative writing classes at Stanford . The 69-year-old alumnus is indulging his longstanding fascination with the written word by talking Hemingway with undergrads, reports the Wall Street Journal . More »

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      Stanford University  • Nike  • Phil Knight

    • In Higher Education, the Rich Get Richer

      newser  |  BusinessWeek  |  Dec 3, 07 1:08 PM CST

      In Higher Education, the Rich Get Richer

      As Ivy League schools upgrade dorms, financial aid, and student-faculty ratios, America’s public universities are losing out, BusinessWeek reports. The "Ivy Plus" schools, which include Stanford and MIT, represent 1% of the US student population but are the richest by far. "We can add resources in almost every dimension," boasts Yale's president. More »

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      Harvard  • Stanford University  • Yale University  • Ivy League  • Princeton University  • brain drain

  • November 2007

    • Stanford Considers Co-Ed Rooms

      newser  |  San Jose Mercury News  |  Nov 29, 07 8:52 PM CST

      Stanford Considers Co-Ed Rooms

      Stanford students want co-ed dorm rooms, and the administration may take them up on the idea. "It's not about sex," one student told the San Jose Mercury News , but about feeling "comfortable in your living space." Transgender students started the initiative to build on the school's anti-discrimination policies, but now both gay and straight students have rallied behind the idea. More »

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      college  • Stanford University  • transgender  • college dorms

    • Carnegie Mellon Wins $2M in Robot Car Race

      newser  |  Popular Mechanics  |  Nov 4, 07 11:02 PM CST

      Carnegie Mellon Wins $2M in Robot Car Race

      A robot car built by Carnegie Mellon University and General Motors beat out ten others to win a race for self-driving vehicles, race officials announced today. The cars had 6 hours to complete a 60-mile course—including missions like parking and merging into traffic—in pursuit of a $2 million grand prize. Second-place finisher Standford University won $1 million and third-place Virginia Tech took home $500,000. More »

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      California  • General Motors  • driving  • Virginia Tech  • Stanford University  • robotics  • DARPA  • car race  • Carnegie Mellon University  • Urban Challenge

  • October 2007

    • DNA Pioneeer Kornberg Dies

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Oct 27, 07 4:05 PM CDT

      DNA Pioneeer Kornberg Dies

      Nobel laureate Dr. Arthur Kornberg, 89, a pioneering biochemist in the fields of DNA and human genetics, has died of respiratory failure, the New York Times reports. Kornberg shared the award in 1959 for his research into how DNA works, and that research is the foundation for many of today's cancer drugs, notes the San Francisco Chronicle .  More »

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      obituary  • DNA  • genetics  • Stanford University  • Nobel prize

  • August 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007

    • Phony Student Nabbed at Stanford

      newser  |  Stanford Daily  |  May 25, 07 10:02 AM CDT

      Phony Student Nabbed at Stanford

      Stanford University officials evicted an 18-year old student  this week after discovering she was not enrolled at the school—despite living in several dorms, buying textbooks, and appearing to study for exams, the Stanford Daily reports. Azia Kim masqueraded as a sophomore majoring in human biology for eight months before a suspicious RA alerted the housing office. More »

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      school  • Stanford University  • college admissions  • Stanford  • imposter

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