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Service with a smile

12.05.2008 01:28    news-service.stanford.edu
On May 1 and 2, about 350 students staff, faculty and alumni volunteered off-campus at many local nonprofit organizations as part of the university's biennial Community Partnership Program.
Service with a smile

Manager for campus-wide sustainability programs to join staff May 19

12.05.2008 01:28    news-service.stanford.edu
Stanford has hired Fahmida Ahmed as manager of sustainable programs in the university's Office of Sustainability and Energy Management. When she starts on May 19, Ahmed's role will be to support the office's executive director, Joseph Stagner, in implementing and
Manager for campus-wide sustainability programs to join staff May 19

'Stanford Bulletin' to feature improved searching online and quarterly updates

12.05.2008 01:28    news-service.stanford.edu
In the 2008-09 academic year, the online 'Stanford Bulletin' will be fully indexed and searchable on the university's website, making it much easier to navigate the 750-page catalog.

Lars Osterberg, local programs recognized

12.05.2008 01:28    news-service.stanford.edu
The Office of Public Affairs, as part of an annual private luncheon being held today, is presenting the 2008 Community Partnership Awards to the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula, the Eastside School Field Studies class and the Hope

Back by popular demand: CoHo to reopen in Tresidder with mix of old and new

12.05.2008 01:28    news-service.stanford.edu
Some things are too good to go away. After a nearly yearlong absence, the popular student hangout at Tresidder Union called the CoHo—a typical Stanford truncation for "Coffee House"—will reopen to the campus community in mid-June.

21st Century campus focus of Academic Council May 15

12.05.2008 01:28    news-service.stanford.edu
At the May 15 meeting of the Academic Council, President John Hennessy will review Stanford's accomplishments of the past year and lead a panel discussion titled "Building the University Campus for the 21st Century."

Professor ferrets out mysteries of biology by giving computers 'intelligence'

12.05.2008 01:28    news-service.stanford.edu
Computer science professor Daphne Koller this week was named the first-ever recipient of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.

Editor behind Muhammad cartoons says international free speech in jeopardy

12.05.2008 01:28    news-service.stanford.edu
Three years after a Danish newspaper, 'Jyllands-Posten,' published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that sparked international protests and attacks on Danish embassies, the images are still stirring controversy and forcing debate about free speech.

Stanford's John W. Gardner Center receives $4 million to foster youth leadership

12.05.2008 01:28    news-service.stanford.edu
A $4 million gift matched by Stanford University will establish an $8 million endowment to support the work of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities.

Quantum computers take step toward practicality with demonstration of new device

12.05.2008 01:28    news-service.stanford.edu
Computers based on the powerful properties of quantum mechanics have the potential to revolutionize information technology and security, but for decades they have remained more theoretical than practical, and difficult to scale up. That is changing, however, as demonstrated in

Not Guilty: Students Discover How Science Can Free the Innocent

12.05.2008 01:23    edutopia.org
A biology-class project teaches high school students about the real-life application of DNA testing in wrongful-conviction cases.

GeneTrack--a genomic data processing and visualization framework

12.05.2008 01:23    bioinformatics.oupjournals.org
High-throughput 'ChIP-chip’ and 'ChIP-seq’ methodologies generate sufficiently large data sets that analysis poses significant informatics challenges, particularly for research groups with modest computational support. To address this challenge, we devised a software platform for storing, analyzing and visualizing high resolution

MTMDAT: Automated analysis and visualization of mass spectrometry data for tertiary and quaternary structure probing of proteins

12.05.2008 01:23    bioinformatics.oupjournals.org
In structural biology and -genomics, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and crystallography are the methods of choice, but sample requirements can be hard to fulfil. Valuable structural information can also be obtained by using a combination of limited proteolysis and

CompariMotif: quick and easy comparisons of sequence motifs

12.05.2008 01:23    bioinformatics.oupjournals.org
CompariMotif is a novel tool for making motif-motif comparisons, identifying and describing similarities between regular expression motifs. CompariMotif can identify a number of different relationships between motifs, including exact matches, variants of degenerate motifs and complex overlapping motifs. Motif relationships

FT-COMAR: fault tolerant three-dimensional structure reconstruction from protein contact maps

12.05.2008 01:23    bioinformatics.oupjournals.org
Summary: Fault Tolerant Contact Map Reconstruction ( FT-COMAR) is a heuristic algorithm for the reconstruction of the protein three-dimensional structure from (possibly) incomplete (i.e. containing unknown entries) and noisy contact maps. FT-COMAR runs within minutes, allowing its application to a

Braille Converter Bridges The Information Gap

12.05.2008 00:38    sciencedaily.com
A free, e-mail-based service that translates text into Braille and audio recordings is helping to bridge the information gap for blind and visually impaired people, giving them quick and easy access to books, news articles and web pages. Developed by

Justice In The Brain: Equity And Efficiency Are Encoded Differently

12.05.2008 00:38    sciencedaily.com
Which is better, giving more food to a few hungry people or letting some food go to waste so that everyone gets a share? A new study finds that most people choose the latter, and that the brain responds in

Men Are More Likely Than Women To Crave Alcohol When They Feel Negative Emotions

12.05.2008 00:38    sciencedaily.com
Women and men tend to have different types of stress-related psychological disorders. Women have greater rates of depression and some types of anxiety disorders than men, while men have greater rates of alcohol-use disorders than women. A new study of

Teen 'Self Medication' For Depression Leads To More Serious Mental Illness, New Report Reveals

12.05.2008 00:38    sciencedaily.com
Millions of American teens report experiencing weeks of hopelessness and loss of interest in normal daily activities and many of these depressed teens are using marijuana and other drugs, making their situation worse, according to a new White House report.

Binge Drinkers Have A Disconnect Between Assessing Their Driving Abilities And Reality

12.05.2008 00:38    sciencedaily.com
While many people believe that alcohol-impaired drivers are usually alcoholics, in fact, 80 percent of AI incidents are caused by binge drinkers. A recent study conducted among college students has found that binge drinkers, even when legally intoxicated, nonetheless believe

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