2012 News Releases
Below you will find an index to the 2012 news releases from Stanford University.
You also can search the complete library to locate releases by specific criteria. This library contains releases dating from 1991 to the present.
May 22
- Cloak and swagger: Engineers use plasmonics to create an invisible photodetector
- Stanford Shakespeare Company's Romeo and Juliet brings the feuding families of Verona together for a eulogy
May 21
- Stanford scholars examine big money's influence on elections
- Planned Parenthood president speaks to Stanford on mobilizing for reproductive health in the 21st century
May 18
- Stanford alumnus Jeffrey Raikes to join university's Board of Trustees
- Tony Blair urges Stanford students to help out in Africa
May 17
- Stanford scientists document fragile land-sea ecological chain
- Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium announces $7.5 million in grants to lower the cost of large-scale solar power
- Stanford's Eavan Boland defines what it means to be a 'woman poet'
May 16
- The fluid nature of art in Nigeria's Benue River Valley comes alive at Stanford
- Q&A: Professor David Plank on the budget and California's K-12 education system
May 15
- Wild blue yonder: Engineers tackle challenges of hypersonic flight
- Stanford professor, IT specialist create interactive map of the Roman Empire
May 14
May 11
May 10
May 9
May 8
- Stanford humanities PhD students pitch their talents to high-tech executives
- Support for climate change action drops, Stanford poll finds
- Stanford study shows no evidence that international health aid is wasted
May 7
May 4
- Despite questions over U.S.-Afghan pact, Stanford professor remains optimistic
- Actress and author Anna Deavere Smith brings 'grace' to Stanford
May 2
- Stanford students share the entrepreneurial spirit with women just out of prison
- Controversial author Martin Amis coming to Stanford on May 7
May 1
- Stanford scholar tracks meditation's migration from ancient Buddhist monasteries to your local yoga class
- Use of public and private dollars for scaling up clean energy needs a reality check, say Stanford scholars
April 30
- Bejeweled: Stanford nanotech gets boost from nanowire decorations
- Where does that creative spark come from? Stanford's Tina Seelig has some ideas
April 27
April 25
April 24
- Helmut Krawinkler, expert on structural design and earthquake engineering, dies at 72
- Stanford researchers work with Hawaii's largest landholder to plan an ecological future
- Mantis, published by Stanford students, translates a world of poetry
April 23
- Stanford's Community Partnership Awards recognize work of DreamCatchers, Canopy, InnVision and Stanford Project on Hunger
- Stanford's Frost Amphitheater roars back with Modest Mouse on May 19
- Stanford Medical School professor to receive 2012 Roland Volunteer Service Prize
April 20
April 18
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April 13
April 12
April 11
- Stanford musicologist Stephen Hinton gets inside the music of Kurt Weill
- Alan Harvey to direct Stanford University Press
- Thomas Cover, acclaimed information theorist and electrical engineer, dies at 73
April 10
April 9
- Renowned Stegner Fellowship program announces 2012-2014 fellows
- D.C. Boot Camp: Stanford grad students do basic training in the nation's capital
- Stanford arts looking ahead to 2016
April 6
- Tickets go on sale April 9 for 'TEDxStanford: Illumination'
- At your service: Stanford's entrepreneurship concierge
- At Stanford, Bill Gates says foreign aid is threatened, but big ideas can turn the tide
April 5
April 4
- Innovation: Stanford student's robotic invention moves toward a business
- Stanford author Adam Johnson on truth and totalitarianism in North Korea
April 3
April 2
- Stanford on iTunes U hits new milestone
- Where the wild winds blow: Stanford engineers use weather models to site offshore wind farms
- Stanford study to try cold cash and social game to relieve rush hour traffic
March 30
- Stanford economist narrows China's education gap with research, technology and policy
- Interpreting an artist's intent involves a team of experts at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center
- Stanford sends notification to Class of 2016
March 29
- Q&A: Stanford's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya explains what's at stake over health care
- Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project awards $8.4 million to develop innovative energy technologies
March 28
- Learning how to speak 'American'
- Now, brought to the big screen by physicists at SLAC: the universe
- Dean Larry Kramer to leave Stanford Law School to lead Hewlett Foundation
- Stanford engineers find elusive plasmons in tiny metal particles, a boost to nanotechnology
- Stanford computer models show that small dams on Mekong River tributaries could have catastrophic impact on fish and people
March 26
March 21
- From glovebox to archive: Private collector gives huge trove of road maps to Stanford
- Stanford robots clash in class finale
- Stanford opens research center at Peking University
March 19
- Innovative Stanford class project turns urban studies students into filmmakers
- Brook H. Byers will join Stanford's Board of Trustees in April
- Stanford marine biologists search for the world's strongest coral
March 15
March 14
- Your brain is older than you think, say researchers from Stanford and the University of Chicago
- Artist takes performance to new heights at Stanford biological preserve
- Stanford researchers create exotic electrons that may lead to new materials, devices
March 12
- DuPont joins Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project
- Former Sen. Russell Feingold discusses how corporations threaten democracy
March 9
- Stanford visiting artist Ellen Lake creates a cultural paradox across decades
- An exploration of human and electronic sound on Stanford's CCRMA Stage
March 7
- Trans-Atlantic bond between the Keats brothers was a poetic inspiration, Stanford scholar says
- Silicon Valley poised to play role as Japan restructures power industry
- Q&A: Margot Gerritsen on the critical need for energy literacy in the US
March 6
- Stanford offers more free online classes for the world
- Stanford's Quake-Catcher Network detected Monday's tremor 10 seconds before the shaking reached campus
March 5
March 1
- Google Waltz Lab teaches Stanford students to think on their feet
- Sea turtles surf an ocean highway to safer habitat, Stanford research suggests
February 29
February 28
February 27
February 23
February 22
- Rare Judeo-Spanish memoir gives a voice to the people of a lost culture
- Swimming through the blood stream: Stanford engineers create wireless, self-propelled medical device
- Highlights from Stanford's Native American paintings collection are showcased in Memory and Markets: Pueblo Painting in the Early 20th Century
February 17
February 16
- State-owned oil companies increase price volatility and pollution, but rarely get used as geopolitical weapons, says Stanford researcher
- President Obama gives the National Humanities Medal to Stanford literary scholar Ramón Saldívar
- Look for new roles for older citizens in an aging America, says Stanford's Laura Carstensen
- International interactive artist Camille Utterback delivers public lecture as part of the new Mohr Visiting Artist Program at Stanford
- New Stanford unit seeks educational initiatives for middle and high school students
February 14
February 13
- Stanford study finds widening gap between rich and poor students
- Stanford engineers weld nanowires with light
- Getting to the 'heart' of the matter
February 10
February 9
- Stanford Dance reconstructs Anna Sokolow's signature work Rooms
- Stanford study suggests girls can 'rewire' brains to ward off depression
February 7
- Stanford geophysicist: More environmental rules needed for shale gas
- As Chinese courts announce 'guiding cases,' Stanford Law School helps to spread the word
- Newark Mayor Cory Booker will be Stanford's 2012 Commencement Speaker
- Stanford raises undergraduate tuition 3 percent for the 2012-13 school year
- Stanford's Revs Program sponsors film series celebrating cars and car culture
- Stanford engineers' nanoshell whispering galleries improve thin solar panels
February 3
February 2
- New generation explores cultural changes through Asian music at Stanford festival
- Q&A: Stanford's Philip Taubman on an unlikely effort by a group of former statesmen to rid the world of nuclear weapons
February 1
- Walker Evans' iconic photos of the Great Depression at Cantor Arts Center
- Wireless power could revolutionize highway transportation, Stanford researchers say
January 30
- Columbia Journalism School and Stanford School of Engineering announce a joint $30 million gift from David and Helen Gurley Brown
- How we see our galaxy's black hole without actually seeing it: Stanford's 2012 Bunyan lecture by astronomer Andrea Ghez
January 27
- Four decades - and counting - of feminist journalism
- The feminist struggle continues, Gloria Steinem says, encouraging a Stanford audience toward 'one new subversive thing'
January 26
- Stanford software allows aero-engineering students to focus on aircraft design instead of computer code
- Stanford University proposes reimagining undergraduate education
January 25
- Stanford scholars reflect on Arab Spring
- Multitasking may harm the social and emotional development of tweenage girls, but face-to-face talks could save the day, say Stanford researchers
January 23
- Elliott Levinthal, Stanford professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, dead at 89
- Advice from Socrates and Plato: Stanford's 2012 Tanner Lectures explore ancient philosophies as ways of life
- Gloria Steinem: Still angry, still funny, still tireless
January 18
January 13
- Stanford's Clayborne Carson on the meaning of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial
- Railroad hyperbole echoes all the way down to the dot-com frenzy
January 12
- Stanford University names Wiley Hausam managing director of Bing Concert Hall
- Take a tour of the virtual future at Stanford
January 11
January 9
- Stanford physicist Burton Richter's moderate approach to climate change
- Stanford University symposium, exhibits, talk by Gloria Steinem commemorate Ms. magazine's 40 years