Stanford headlines for the week of January 12, 2005

University, hospitals report operating surplus of $155 million for fiscal year
Planned soccer fields, housing one step closer to realization
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to give Commencement address
Community conveys sympathy, vows support for tsunami victims
Undergraduate education fundraising campaign hits $1 billion goal early
Bird populations face steep decline in coming decades, study says
Axess security error found, fixed
Campus events, new volume to honor Martin Luther King
Honors & Awards
Professor William C. Lazier dead at 73
Admission offered to 867 early applicants
Geophysicists ponder existence of hotspots, plumes and cracks in tectonic plates
Ads for body scans present misleading information
Welcoming 2005 by giving platelets
Volunteers needed for two studies
Tsunami prompts many at medical center to offer aid
Method to reduce infections from chemotherapy succeeds in mice
Study of owls reveals that early learning leaves lasting changes in brain
Hypnosis eases kids’ catheterizations
THE YEAR AHEAD: 2005 forecasts: new cancer therapies, surgical robotics and better sex
NIH/Stanford meeting discusses ethical standards for neuroimaging research
Medical center people
Media monitor
Hillel brings new life to 106-year-old landmark home on Mayfield Avenue
Business School student presumed dead
Students raise funds for tsunami relief
Deals with Google to accelerate library digitization projects for Stanford, others
New year brings Hard Times to readers
Proposed changes to retiree medical benefits explained
In Print and On the Air
Report of the President to the Board of Trustees
Ph.D. Orals
Housing
Winter Quarter tennis lessons available for Stanford community
Cardinal Chronicle / weekly campus column
Maples Pavilion, after the facelift