Issue of
February 25, 1998

Contents of February 25 issue

FEATURES

• Ethnic identities: subject to change

• For Rick Yuen, success is a question of definition

MEDICAL SCHOOL

• Yearlong clerkship in primary care proposed
  
  
• Crossing Campus Drive: Joint projects surprisingly numerous
  
  
• Van Etten, Wintroub reaffirm support for school's academic mission
  
  
• Directors sought for seven service lines piloted by UCSF Stanford
  
  
• DeBusk to discuss chronic disease management
  
  
• Bipolar Clinic holds community workshop
  
  
• Complementary medicine: Who covers what?
  
  
• Space available in upcoming HIP classes

@WORK

• Cardinal Chronicle
  
  
• For Rick Yuen, success is a question of definition
  
  
• New website for Presidential Lectures and Symposia in the Humanities and Arts
  
  
• Internal Audit Talk: dealing with external auditors
  
  
• Department Purchasing Cards now available
  
  
• Internal Audit offers opportunity to improve operations and processes
  
  
• Sign up for Stanford Summer All-Sports Camp
  
  
• Space available in upcoming HIP classes

CITY OF STANFORD

• For the record: Update on flood damage to Green, Meyer
  
  
• Two arrested in beating outside fraternity house
  
  
• False bomb threat prompts bookstore search
  
  
• Sign up now for Stanford Summer All-Sports Camp
  
  
• Campus crime statistics

TEACHING

• Chevron grant helps fuel Stanford Graduate Fellowships program
  
  
• Yearlong clerkship in primary care proposed
  
  
• New Partners for Academic Excellence program launched
  
  
• For the record: Update on flood damage to Green, Meyer
  
  
• ’97 grad, on world trip, gets news of Marshall Scholarship
  
  
• HIV/AIDS Alternative Spring Break receives Wyatt Award
  
  
• Senior wins Bundeskanzler Award for study in Germany
  
  
• Ph.D. Orals

RESEARCH

• New professors transforming Sociology Department
  
  
• Chevron grant helps fuel Stanford Graduate Fellowships program
  
  
• Precision engineering: Designing buildings for the future
  
  
• Economists debate lessons of the Asian financial crisis
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• For the record: Update on flood damage to Green, Meyer
  
  
• OTL Research Incentive Fund awards $634 thousand in seed grants
  
  
• Ethnic identities: subject to change
  
  
• Solar physicists take part in eclipse webcast
  
  
• Crossing Campus Drive: Joint projects surprisingly numerous
  
  
• Ph.D. Orals

STUDENTS

• ’97 grad, on world trip, gets news of Marshall Scholarship
  
  
• New 'Partners' program seeks to boost frosh retention rate
  
  
• Senior wins Bundeskanzler Award for study in Germany
  
  
• HIV/AIDS Alternative Spring Break receives Wyatt Award
  
  
• 2,600 expected for Parents’ Weekend

POLICY

• Report questions hiring, retention of women faculty

• Members of H&S dean's search committee announced

• Faculty Senate minutes

• Internal Audit Talk: dealing with external auditors

• Bull stock market boosts endowment