Stanford football legend and former athletic director Bill Walsh passed away this morning at his Woodside, Calif. home. The NFL Hall-of-Famer and three-time Super Bowl champion coach died at age 75 after a long battle with leukemia, according to University officials.
Walsh was a fixture of both the Cardinal and national sports scenes. His Hall-of-Fame turn [...]

This report covers a selection of crimes from July 17 to July 24, as recorded in the Stanford Police Department Public Bulletin.
Tuesday, July 17
- An unknown suspect or suspects vandalized the interior of the Stanford Bookstore by writing and drawing on the walls of the mezzanine-level men’s restroom using black indelible ink felt-tip marking pens.
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Former School of Medicine Prof. Ralph S. Paffenbarger M.S. ‘82 died on July 9 at the age of 84. Paffenbarger studied the relationship between physical fitness and death rates, pioneering the modern approach to exercise.
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Richard Rorty ‘54 passed away on June 8 at the age of 75. Rorty was known [...]

Electrical Engineering Prof. Umran Inan Ph.D ‘77 outshined stiff competition in receiving the 2007 Allan Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research. As Director of the Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience (STAR) Laboratory, he offers his undergraduate students the opportunity assist in his technological research.
“I was surprised and very pleased [to receive the award],” he [...]

Stanford took top honors earlier this month in Google’s SketchUp contest, in which teams of competitors from different schools designed 3-D models of their respective campuses. Led by Steven Lehrburger ‘07 and Joseph Bergen ‘07, Stanford’s team emerged in the top seven out of 364 other schools registered for the contest.
The Stanford team’s contest entry [...]

School of Medicine Professor Emeritus Lubert Stryer will journey to the White House tomorrow to receive the 2006 National Medal of Science from President Bush — the nation’s highest honor for scientific achievement.
Stryer, who studies neurobiology and cell biology, is one of eight scientists to receive an award. Psychology Prof. Gordon Bower and Statistics Prof. [...]

Stanford University Medical Center is now set to begin the final planning stages of a multibillion-dollar renovation of its hospitals and medical school facilities, following the completion of preliminary negotiations with the city of Palo Alto. The redevelopment is expected to begin in 2010, with the hospital remaining fully operational during reconstruction.
The Medical Center has [...]

University Registrar Roger Printup announced in February that he would retire at the end of the 2006-2007 academic year after 14 years at the University — sending administrators scrambling to find someone who could follow in his footsteps. The six-month search recently came to a close when former University of Chicago Registrar Thomas Black was [...]

During Admit Weekend, I was fortunate to hang out with two other Profros who shared my music tastes. As we traded iPods to look at each other’s music libraries, one of my new friends remarked with surprise that I had two Okkervil River albums.
“They’re really good,” she remarked, “but I thought they were just [...]

A few weeks ago, the fashion pack — models, editors, buyers, journalists — congregated in Paris for the semi-annual haute couture shows. Couture has had ups and downs lately, with house after house closing its doors and the client pool shrinking. But this month’s shows were encouraging, for several reasons: the quality of the clothes, [...]