Stanford’s endowment fund generated a 23 percent return in the 12 months that ended June 30, the management company that oversees it announced Friday.
That heady gain outpaced even the robust performance of the S&P 500 Index during the period, which grew 20.6 percent. The Stanford Merged Pool fund has grown an average of 15.1 percent [...]

Most summers, members of the Blyth Fund investment club take a break from their academic year discussions about portfolio monitoring and buying securities. This year, due to the market’s turbulence over the past three months, a flurry of correspondence among the Fund’s nine voting members led to several summer sales of the $200,000 Fund’s riskier [...]

Stanford composting efforts are alive and kicking this year as all dining halls, most Row houses and Tresidder Union restaurants continue to pursue the Farm’s goal of going green.
The composting program, which is coordinated by the Peninsula Sanitary Service Inc. (PSSI), was first introduced at the Wilbur dining hall in 2003. Together with recycling programs, [...]

ATM customers fearful of “shoulder surfers,” low-tech criminals known for stealing PIN codes by lurking behind users, may no longer have to worry about finding emptied bank accounts after they fail to shield the keypad. A new technology from Stanford researchers can ensure that your PIN code is for your eyes only.
The program, called EyePassword, [...]

Unaware of the impending demise of the Coffee House (CoHo), students left campus last June oblivious to the fact that a favorite meeting spot and student concert venue was cleaning its crepe griddle for the last time.
But the CoHo’s closing was anticipated by the University administration, if not students, as part of Old Union renovations. [...]

Last Monday, Stanford acquired the entire radio archive of New Dimensions Media — a collection comprising thousands of hours of historic interviews with public figures such as Maya Angelou, Bill Moyers and the Dalai Lama. Stanford is currently discussing the possibility of making the archive publicly available online.
“This archive will complement and enrich our long-standing [...]

Students leaving last Sunday’s Faces of Community performance (Faces) had just one question: Who was that last act? Closing the show was an inspiring six-minute spoken word piece performed not by an upperclassman, but by a freshman still new to the Farm.
“Sometimes I wonder what really lies in one body/ Sometimes I wonder what really [...]

Former Stanford quarterback Trent Edwards will make his first career NFL start this weekend as the Buffalo Bills host the New York Jets this Sunday. The rookie was thrust into the spotlight last weekend when Buffalo’s starter, J.P. Losman, sprained his knee early in Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots. The league has [...]

Hosting 45 colleges and 57 high school squads from around the country, Stanford cross country is set to compete this weekend at the 34th Stanford Invitational.
The event is one of the biggest of the weekend on the West Coast, attracting mostly schools from California. And although it isn’t the first event of the year for [...]

In its last game before the start of conference play, the Stanford men’s soccer team faces the College of Charleston tonight at 7:30 p.m. on Maloney Field. The Cougars won their first six games before falling 3-2 to Central Florida on Sept. 21. Friday marks the first ever meeting between the Cardinal and Charleston, which [...]