Stanford headlines for the week of April 22, 2009

Stimulus money should go to lowest bidders, experts urge
Tenth annual 'An Art Affair' celebrates creativity, performance on White Plaza
12 scholars named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The afterlife of Leland Stanford Jr.
World's most powerful X-ray machine debuts at SLAC
In new study, high school exit exam gets a failing grade
Seeking low-cost solutions to sanitation crisis in Africa
Stanford plans upcoming debt offering
NCAA recertifies Stanford as a Division I university
Budget cuts announced for three units
Stanford Hospital interpreters make health care a universal language
Discovery of ion-pore location on cell alters long-accepted model of hearing
Medical center people
Harold Varmus offers advice to next director of NIH
Longevity conference covers demographics, genetics, stem cells, Social Security
Malaria vaccine study seeks subjects
Weissman dismayed by draft NIH guidelines for stem cell research funding
Stanford filmmakers win $100,000 Sundance grant
Inexpensive drug relieves fibromyalgia pain in small study
Music, art will take center stage at April 28 symposium
Library exhibit, symposium highlight ‘The First Hebrew City’
Faculty Senate minutes - April 16, 2009 meeting
Housing
Ph.D. Orals
New system for logging hours, leave to replace Kronos in May
Annual Wellness Fair to be held April 29
Cardinal Chronicle
Hennessy to address financial state of the university