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• Young Stanford Doc's Second Medical Thriller Hits Bookshelves

  - 2007-09-04

  STANFORD, Calif. -- If some people like to predict he's a Michael Crichton in the making, Josh Spanogle has no problem with that. Like medical-suspense author Crichton, he juggles a dual identity. Spanogle, MD, had his first critically acclaimed medical thriller, Isolation Ward, neatly tucked under his lab...

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• Legendary NFL coach Walsh dies of leukemia

  - 2007-07-30

  PALO ALTO, United States AFP — Bill Walsh, who masterminded three Super Bowl championship seasons for the San Francisco 49ers, died on Monday morning aged 75 after a three-year battle with leukemia. Stanford University confirmed the death of the American football legend, a Hall of Fame coach who revolutionized...

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• Top Physician-Scientist to Head Stanford Pediatrics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Medical Staff

  - 2007-04-24

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Renowned physician and researcher Hugh O'Brodovich, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University's School of Medicine and chief of staff at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, the two institutions announced April 23. The appointment fills a vacancy left by the departure of...

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• Hoover Fellow Joseph Berger Receives W.E.B. DuBois Award

  - 2007-03-15

  STANFORD, Calif. -- The American Sociological Association announced recently that Hoover Institution senior fellow Joseph Berger and professor emeritus of the sociology department of Stanford University is the recipient of the 2007 W.E.B. DuBois Award. This is the highest award granted by the association in recognition of a career of...

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• Annual review of biochemistry; v.75, 2006

  - 2006-12-01

  Annual review of biochemistry; v.75, 2006. Ed. by Roger D. Kornberg et al. Annual Reviews 2006 982 pages $208.00 Hardcover QP514 This handsomely bound volume contains 29 articles reviewing recent findings in molecular biology and genetics. It opens with Robert Lehman's (Stanford...

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• Hoover Institution Announces 2006-07 National Fellows

  - 2006-10-18

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Hoover Institution director John Raisian has announced the recipients of the annual postdoctoral W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellows Program for the 2006-07 academic year. Recognized as one of the preeminent fellowships in the United States, the program has awarded more than 400 fellowships...

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• Stanford Lively Arts Names Jennifer Bilfield as New Artistic and Executive Director

  - 2006-06-07

  Stanford Lively Arts today announced the appointment of Jennifer Bilfield as Artistic and Executive Director for Stanford Lively Arts, who joins the staff in early August. After a 12-month national search, the executive search committee of Stanford University faculty and staff selected Bilfield to succeed Lois Wagner, who retired in...

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• Hoover Institution Announces 2005-06 National Fellows

  - 2005-09-22

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Hoover Institution director John Raisian has announced the recipients of the annual postdoctoral W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellows Program for the 2005-06 academic year. Recognized as one of the preeminent fellowships in the United States, the program, now completing its 33rd year, provides...

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• Deserving honors for 10 local legends

  - 2005-05-26

  ON JUNE 23, 10 names will be etched into the county's sports history, joining the 162 local legends already in the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame. The inductees will find themselves in lofty company, including the likes of John Madden, Barry Bonds, Tom Brady and dozens of other...

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• Gillmor, C. Stewart: Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley.(Book Review)

  - 2005-03-22

  Gillmor, C. Stewart Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley Stanford: Stanford University Press 664 pp., $70.00, ISBN 0-8047-4914-0 Publication Date: October 2004 Toward the end of his long and remarkably productive life, Fred Terman wrote to a friend...

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