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Engineers use plasmonics to create an invisible photodetector - A team of engineers at Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania has for the first time used "plasmonic cloaking" to create a device that can see without being seen ? an invisible machine that detects light....
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Stanford scholars examine big money's influence on elections - Scholars and Washington insiders gathered at a SIEPR conference to tackle questions about whether money is corrupting politics and whether the economy can predict who will be president....
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Planned Parenthood president speaks to Stanford on mobilizing for reproductive health in the 21st century - Cecile Richards explained the importance of looking to the next generation, the possibilities offered by new technologies and why Planned Parenthood is arguably stronger than ever....
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TEDxStanford 'illuminates' rich intellectual diversity - Saturday's TEDxStanford featured inspiring presentations and performances, addressing subjects ranging from early cancer detection to the consequences of misguided philanthropy and the joys of unconventional musical composition....
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Senate approves Ways of Thinking, Ways of Doing breadth requirement - Starting in 2013, Stanford's baccalaureate breadth requirements will be based on a model that promotes the acquisition and development of "essential capacities." ...
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Tony Blair urges Stanford students to help out in Africa - The former prime minister of Great Britain said that much-needed economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa cannot go forward without improvements in governance....
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Stanford alumnus Jeffrey Raikes to join university's Board of Trustees - Jeffrey Raikes, who earned his bachelor's degree from Stanford in 1980, has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to Stanford through financial support for the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and the Center on Food Security and the Environment. He and his wife established the Jeff and Tricia Raikes Undergraduate Scholarship Fund to ensure that students admitted to Stanford from rural and inner-city schools have an opportunity to attend the university....
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Stanford's Eavan Boland defines what it means to be a 'woman poet' - Through poetry and prose, Stanford professor and acclaimed poet Eavan Boland shares how being a woman, wife and mother influenced her work....
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Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium announces $7.5 million in grants to lower the cost of large-scale solar power - A total of $7.5 million will go to 18 research teams at Stanford, UC-Berkeley and three national laboratories....
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Stanford scientists document fragile land-sea ecological chain - Intricate, often invisible chains of life are threatened with extinction around the world. A new study quantifies one of the longest such chains ever documented....
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Fluid nature of art in Nigeria's Benue River Valley comes alive in Stanford exhibition - Sculptural works in Cantor Arts Center exhibition tell stories, reflect values and express the relationships between Benue River peoples and their environment....
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Senate to continue discussion on undergraduate breadth requirements - At the May 17 meeting of the Faculty Senate, discussion will continue on the proposed structure of Ways of Thinking, Ways of Doing, a new model of breadth requirements recommended in the Study of Undergraduate Education at Stanford....
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Q&A: Professor David Plank on the budget and California's K-12 education system - Professor David Plank offers insight into a new report evaluating California's K-12 education system, with reasons to be hopeful that some reform may be on the way....
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Wild blue yonder: Engineers tackle challenges of hypersonic flight - A collaboration among Stanford engineering departments uses some of the world's fastest supercomputers to model the complexities of hypersonic flight. Their work may lead to planes that fly at many times the speed of sound....
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Stanford professor, IT specialist create interactive map of the Roman Empire - New online map shows how much time and money went into traveling the Roman Empire. Classics Professor Walter Scheidel says the dynamic tool lets users interact in ways they wouldn't be able to with a traditional map....
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