Issue of
July 30, 1997

Index for July 30 issue

FEATURES

• Flamenco Week photo spread

MEDICAL SCHOOL

• Operations Improvement teams reach budget goal
• Beta-blockers beneficial in treating heart failure
• New target date for merger launch
• Medical Center prepares for area code shift
• 'Pre–owned' bloodmobile headed for new life in Vera Cruz
• Medical school faculty appointments, promotions
  announced
• New provisional fringe benefits rate for FY97
• Merger appointees announced
• Four postdocs named Runyon-Winchell fellows
• AMA honors Hu for community service
• Coulston to lead dietetic group
• Perkins accepts post in School of Business
• Volunteers sought for study of garlic

@WORK

• Private Physicians Group at Stanford
  ends HMO contracts; 600 staff affected
• cardinal chronicle
• Lutheran Church, Escondido Village sponsor camp
  for neighborhood kids
• New target date for merger launch
• Development Office changes
• STAP Reimbursement funds raised to $200 per
  quarter

CITY OF STANFORD

• Update: Summer Construction Survival Guide
• Planners address a building issue
• Campus crime statistics for July 11-25
• Stanford Development Office wins award
  for fund-raising
• Tours of outdoor art offered
• Volunteers sought for study of garlic

TEACHING

• 35 Centennial TAs lauded for outstanding teaching
• Mexican ecologist, Brazilian specialist
  to teach in '97-98
• Ph.D. orals: July 30 - August 13

RESEARCH

• Beta-blockers beneficial in treating heart
  failure
• Petroleum engineering research offers clue
  to TWA explosion
• The whole world really is in our hands,
  leading ecologists assert
• Discovery offers hope in fight
  against drug-resistant bacteria
• Martin Luther King center halts talks on transferring
  papers
• Sponsored Projects
• Forget the fuselage: Researchers make progress on
  flying wing

STUDENTS

• Cowell's AIDS/HIV project chosen
  for national study

POLICY

• Nov. 1 new target date for medical merger
• Medical Operations Improvement teams reach
  budget goal
• Holloway named associate dean for the humanities
• New provisional fringe benefits rate for 1997