Stanford headlines for the week of February 20, 2008

Message regarding recent tragedies at Northern Illinois University and Louisiana Technical College
Nanotube wires shown to operate at speed of commercial chips
National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley discusses global nuclear security
Stanford, Palo Alto wowed by big time cycling
Stanford enhances undergraduate financial aid program
Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks top list of heroes
Exhibit at Hoover contrasts official, nonofficial views of World War I in England
Comings & Goings
Human culture is subject to natural selection, researchers at Stanford find
Map is first to track global human influences on ocean ecosystems
Board of Trustees announces tuition rates for 2008-09
Pledge of $1.5 million will endow chair honoring alumnus Warren Christopher
Spring Migration concert spotlights cutting-edge choreographers
In Hawaii, living corals thousands of years old give clues to past climate change
Dazzling dissection images from famed Bassett collection now online
Neural stem cells helped repair stroke damage in rats' brains
Study yields 'gold mine' of potential drug targets for treating multiple sclerosis
Worried about donating bone marrow? Leith will gladly soothe your fears
Media monitor
Medical center people
Faculty Senate meeting to be held tomorrow
Housing
Ph.D. Orals
Week devoted to innovation, can-do attitude returns to campus
A new Stanford homepage coming June 2008
Cardinal Chronicle