Of the whirlwind of events, lectures and celebrations that accompany Nobel Prize winners, few have been more important than recent testimony by Stanford’s Andrew Fire and Roger Kornberg before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology. As part of the most recent cohort of Nobel laureates in the sciences, Fire and Kornberg traveled last [...]

Hundreds of people are walking around with literally half a brain.
A radical procedure in which doctors remove an entire hemisphere of a person’s brain is sometimes necessary in cases of incapacitating epilepsy. A recent study reported on dozens of [...]

When Stanford and UC-Berkeley students get together in a competitive setting, it is usually on a football field or in some other athletic contest. But when 60 Stanford students squared off against their counterparts from Cal last month in Mountain View in the first annual Google Games, it was as a veritable battle of the [...]

A new Google Maps feature released Wednesday includes technology developed by members of the Stanford Racing Team for “Stanley,” a Volkswagon Touarag R5 that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.
Google licensed the sensing technology from Stanford earlier this month, department of technology licensing director Katherine Ku told The San Jose Mercury News.
The new feature released [...]

University of Toronto bioethics professor Peter A. Singer said advances in biotechnology will improve living conditions in the developing world and for the reconciliation of the pros and cons of biotechnology during a talk at the History Corner yesterday afternoon.
Singer cited the new Hepatitis B vaccine created by the Indian company Shanta Biotechnics as an [...]

Plans for an airport shuttle service subsidized by the ASSU hit a speed bump last night, as the Graduate Student Council (GSC) voted to contribute only half of the funding expected to be provided for the program.
Organizers for the shuttle service, which would transport students from campus to the San Francisco and San Jose airports [...]

The Cantor Arts Center’s newest exhibit, “Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World,” premiered yesterday, bringing the first major display of Tuareg art to campus. The exhibit showcases a wide array of jewelry, leatherwork and clothing as a cultural representation of this traditionally nomadic West African people.
“[We want] to show the range [...]

Thanks to a new Web site developed by Stanford scientists, students moving out this summer will be able to donate their unwanted belongings to charity instead of throwing them away.
Charitopia.org was founded in March as a resource for the San Jose chapter of Habitat for Humanity to locate donors. The site has since been modified [...]

The Dean of Students Office and the ASSU sponsored a town hall meeting last night to allow students the chance to share their views about the Office of Student Activities (OSA), Old Union and Tresidder Union.
The meeting started with moderator Rev. Joanne Sanders, administrative dean for the Office of Religious Life, asking students to name [...]

Asian-American women demonstrate a high rate of suicide when compared with women of other ethnicities, California State-Fullerton researcher Eliza Noh found in a recent empirical study.
Noh and Stanford mental health professionals Alejandro Martinez, the director of Counciling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and Rona Hu, director of the Acute Inpatient Unit at Stanford Hospital, told The [...]