Alex Trebek is one. So are Jim Carrey, Celine Dion and Lorne Michaels. These famous Canadians celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday this past Tuesday along with the rest of the nation. This Saturday, Stanford’s Canada Club will honor the date with an eight-hour Canoe Party at Lyman Atrium.
“Despite the fact that Canadians look just like Americans [...]

“It’s just something I was drawn to,” said sophomore Elizabeth Aguilar about her love of journalism. “I would really love to be a professional journalist one day.” Aguilar is one of four students who have won scholarships from The Stanford Daily for their dedication to the student newspaper and journalism.
Aguilar received the $1,000 Julius Jacobs [...]

This year’s top three winners of the Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students, or BASES, E-Challenge are vying for something more than just the cash prizes – they will represent Stanford at the Draper Fisher Juvetson Venture Challenge in early June.
Out of 75 submitted business plans, the Adaptive Hearing Solutions proposal — developed by [...]

Stanford’s Creative Writing Program has announced its 2005 Stegner Fellows for fiction and poetry. Each year, the highly competitive fellowship provides five poets and five fiction writers with a stipend to spend two years at Stanford, polishing their writing in intensive workshops, instructing English Department classes and working one-on-one with undergraduate students.
This year, the program [...]

University Provost John Etchemendy unveiled the budget for the 2005-2006 academic year at yesterday’s Faculty Senate meeting. In what he said will be an “excellent budget year,” Etchemendy forecasted a 7.6 percent increase in the University’s total revenue and a surplus of $49.2 million in the consolidated budget, which encompasses all University operations.
Significant increases in [...]

Two leading stem cell scientists are heading to The Farm to continue their work, thanks in part to the $3 billion in state funding for stem cell research.
In April, Stanford formed the Program in Regenerative Medicine to focus on interdisciplinary stem cell and regenerative medicine projects — attracting scientists like Michael Clarke from the University [...]

Soon Ok Lee, a survivor of the North Korean prison system, recounted stories of the torture and executions that are standard under the rule of Kim Jong-Il in a talk last night.
Lee, who has testified before the United Nations, U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, has been involved in a campaign to raise awareness [...]

Nearly four out of 10 teenagers with eating disorders visit Web sites that encourage their unhealthy habits, states a study recently issued by the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. The Web sites provide tips on how to lose weight more easily and express pride in what they call a “lifestyle choice.”
The goal of the report — [...]

Stanford Stadium, a time-honored part of the University’s landscape, may soon have a date with a wrecking ball, as it is scheduled to be retrofitted or even replaced with a state-of-the-art arena.
In an official statement, Alan Acosta, associate vice president for public affairs, called it a “long-needed renovation that will not only benefit Stanford Athletics, [...]

John Prendergast, special advisor to the president of the International Crisis Group, and Samantha Power, a Pulitzer-prize winning author and public policy lecturer at Harvard, recently sent a letter to presidents of more than 100 American universities urging them to divest from companies operating in Sudan.
A second letter sent to Stanford lobbies for divestment from [...]