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A baby is found floating in a basket on a Northern California river in the 1930s.

Energy sustainability on campus is one of several topics on the agenda today when the Faculty Senate convenes its third meeting of autumn quarter.

Sponsored by the art and art history department, "Pedagogy for the Impressed" brought together, from left, visiting ballerina and dance lecturer Muriel Maffre, visiting director Lin Hixson, painter and art and art history professor Xiaoze Xie, choreographer and guest lecturer Ralph Lemon, and visiting director Matthew Gouhlish to discuss the ...

In response to a recent spate of phony emails, Stanford's Information Technology Services staff would like to remind everyone that the university will never ask faculty, staff or students to reveal their usernames or passwords in an email.

E-mail: pollack1@stanford.edu Received 25 March 2009; Revised 29 July 2009; Accepted 27 August 2009; Published online 2 November 2009.

A new executive director and 13 fellows join the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity this academic year.

Outside neurology and his family, Sean Mackey doesn't have many hobbies. The one exception is his monstrous flat-screen television and large film collection.

A pair of gamma-ray photons - one possessed of a million times the energy of the other - arrived at virtually the same instant at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, where the Large Area Telescope, for which Stanford's Peter Michelson is principal investigator, detected them after a 7.3 billion year race across the universe.

There is no sure thing in Pac-10 women's volleyball and Stanford can attest to that after losing twice in its first seven conference matches.

Palo Alto Online Sports Keanu Nelson, Arizona's No. 4 rated prospect out of Tucson's Sabino High, committed to Stanford and coach Jim Harbaugh shorty after the Cardinal beat Arizona State, 33-14, on Saturday night.

Joseph Martz comes to Stanford with a background in nuclear weapons design and a commitment to solving international security problems.

John Bravman, vice provost for undergraduate education, announced Thursday that Stanford plans to convene a two-year commission to study the university's academic goals and requirements for undergraduate students.

On Monday, Oct. 19, Stanford police arrested two men and a woman in the parking lot between Roble Hall and Lagunita Court and charged all three with possession of a controlled substance .

At Stanford's "chant camp," singers learn a medieval musical form that relies on memory and the ear to sing shapes and gestures - not notes.

Jason Morris, a highly rated small forward from Georgia, told rivals.com he plans to speak with Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins this week about scheduling a trip to the Palo Alto campus in the near future.

Mountain View resident David Mitchell has given blood 625 times, starting in 1954 when he joined the military at age 17.

As Bay Area residents look back on the Loma Prieta earthquake, Stanford Report asked university emergency officials how things have changed since the magnitude 6.9 temblor rocked the campus in 1989.

In an effort to prevent the spread of H1N1, or swine flu, Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital will not allow people under age 16 to visit patients beginning Monday.

Santa has always had a monopoly on the good cookies. But it took Julia Usher a while to ponder the bigger issue: Why should the winter holidays get all the gingerbread? And why should something as deliciously fun as a cookie exchange be relegated to December? Her answer unfolds in mouthwatering fashion in the new book "Cookie Swap: Creative Treats ...

In an effort to stem the quickening pace of the swine flu outbreak, Stanford and Lucile Packard Children's hospitals on Monday will begin banning children from visiting their sick loved ones until the pandemic subsides - possibly as late as spring.