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• 2008 Olympic Soccer Gold Medalist To Join Stanford Soccer Star in Donating Blood

  - 2008-09-29

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Olympic gold medal winner Nicole Barnhart from the U.S. women's soccer team and Stanford University soccer star Erica Holland will donate blood Oct. 3 at the Stanford Blood Center's Hillview Donor Center at 3373 Hillview Avenue in Palo Alto. They will also be available from 10:30 a.m....

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• New Approach, Old Drug Show Promise Against Hepatitis C, Stanford Research Shows

  - 2008-08-31

  STANFORD, Calif. -- The fight against the liver disease hepatitis C has been at something of an impasse for years, with more than 150 million people currently infected, and traditional antiviral treatments causing nasty side effects and often falling short of a cure. Using a novel technique, medical and engineering...

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• Stanford University and Innovations for Learning Team to Bring Revolutionary $50 Handheld Computer to Latin America

  - 2008-07-01

  CHICAGO & PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Stanford University's School of Education and Innovations for Learning, a Chicago-based nonprofit, have entered into a social entrepreneurship collaboration to bring the $50 Teachermate Handheld Computer to extremely underserved indigenous children in Latin America. Teachermate is a compact mobile learning tool that resembles...

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• A conversation with Sam Puryear, assistant head coach, Stanford University Men's Golf

  - 2007-09-06

  In just his second season at Stanford University, Sam Puryear helped coach the men's golf team to capture the 2007 NCAA National Championship--a feat that they last accomplished 13 years ago when Tiger Woods was on their team. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Of the 30 teams at the National Championship...

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• Pacific Graduate School of Psychology and Stanford Professors Team Up to Launch Think Tank on Terrorism

  - 2007-04-19

  Led by Renowned Psychologists Philip G. Zimbardo and James N. Breckenridge, 'CIPERT' Will Study Causes and Impacts of Political Violence PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Professors from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology PGSP and Stanford University announced today the launch of the Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research...

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• New Sports Anchor/Reporter Joins Q13 Fox News Team

  - 2007-04-05

  SEATTLE -- A new face has joined Q13 FOX News as weekend sports anchor and reporter. Aaron Levine began at the station late last week and will begin anchoring in late April. He will also appear on QITUP Sports with Q13 FOX Sports Director, Dan Devone. "You can't find...

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• Factors Influencing VDC Technology Diffusion On Construction Projects

  BNET - 2006-07-14

  Construction companies often try to introduce new technologies to stay competitive. Unfortunately, experiences show that construction management project teams adopt these new technologies only slowly. To help speed up this adoption process, R&D and project managers need to better understand which factors influence the speed of adoption. The R&D manager...

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• Darpa grand winner: Stanley, Stanford University's robot car.

  - 2006-01-01

  Beer Bottle Pass is a 1.5-mile section of dirt road that snakes through the Lucy Gray Mountains of southwestern Nevada's Mojave high desert. On one side of the narrow track is a rock face; on the other, a 100-ft. drop-off. The pass demands respect from off-road ...

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• Think away your pain.

  - 2005-12-13

  Dec 13, 2005 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- New research conducted by a team at Stanford University suggests that pain sufferers can potentially learn how to alter their pain perception. ...

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• Silicon Valley Basketball Shootout Set To Benefit Positive Coaching Alliance

  - 2005-10-07

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Interview/TV/Photo Opportunity:Sunday, October 9, 2005 Stanford University, Maples Pavilion ...

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