Nnemkadi Ogwumike had 19 points and 11 rebounds Saturday.
With its 79-47 win over UC-Riverside Saturday night, the women’s basketball team seems poised for a third straight trip to the Final Four. Next up is Iowa on Monday night, with the home crowd again expected to pack Maples Pavilion. The eighth-seeded Iowa Hawkeyes beat Rutgers 70-63 in Maples earlier Saturday.
California Gov. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, Apple CEO STEVE JOBS, State Sen. ELAINE ALQUIST and other dignitaries visited Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Friday, March 19, to announce new legislation to simplify the system for organ donation registration in California. Photos are posted on the hospital’s Facebook fan page and the School of Medicine’s SCOPE blog.
Futurity, the website that features research news from leading universities in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. (including Stanford), is now available as an iPhone app. Futurity connects readers to the latest news about “everything from biotech to nanotech, physics to psychology, genetics to global warming,” the iTunes description says. “The iPhone app makes it even easier to stay on top of today’s research news.”
If you have an Android or a BlackBerry, don’t despair. There’s an app for the former on the Android Market. The BlackBerry version is coming soon.
Rex Jamison, academic secretary and professor of medicine, emeritus, and Andrea Goldsmith, chair of the Faculty Senate
Only seven more days are left for Academic Council members to vote for their colleagues to run for next year’s Senate. The deadline: March 25th, 11:59 pm. To vote go on-line at: https://vote.stanford.edu/
Academic Council members of selected groups previously notified also can vote on the same site for candidates for the Advisory Board.
Be sure to vote. It is easy. It is a good and right thing.
Parking & Transportation Services (P&TS) has posted videos on its website featuring testimonials by RANDY LIVINGSTON and DAVID SPAIN. Livingston, vice president for business affairs and chief financial officer, shares a story about a bike accident that landed him in the hospital with a fractured femur.
“I also smashed my head on the pavement,” Livingston adds, “and the helmet did exactly what it’s supposed to do. It actually splintered into several pieces, and I came out without a concussion or any kind of severe injury. But I am absolutely convinced that had I not been wearing a helmet at that point, I would either be dead or permanently disabled.”
Dr. Spain, chief of trauma and critical care surgery at the medical center, offers a clinical perspective: “We can fix ruptured spleens, we can fix ruptured diaphragms, we can fix broken legs, we can fix broken arms. We can fix everything else, except the brain.”
To see the videos, visit the P&TS website.
JIFFY VERMYLEN has been appointed sustainability coordinator in the Office of Sustainability to support further development and implementation of campus-wide initiatives, according to FAHMIDA AHMED, associate director of sustainability and energy management.
Vermylen, who was working as a senior project engineer for DPR Construction, will focus on rolling out department and building-level conservation programs, improving communications and training, and establishing programmatic evaluation standards. Vermylen earned a bachelor’s degree in civil and environmental engineering from Princeton and a master’s degree in structural engineering and geomechanics from Stanford.
Vermylen’s appointment was announced at a recent Sustainability Working Group meeting that featured presentations by students whose projects received support from the Stanford Student Green Fund. The fund provides grants for innovative student-driven projects designed to create a more sustainable campus.
KEVIN MORI, BEN KALLMAN and MATT CROWLEY reported on plugVIEW, a customized, real-time energy metering system installed on the third floor of Donner Hall. The project is designed to “make energy personally meaningful to students in residences,” said Mori.
The project features an online dashboard that presents in real time the energy use in eight student rooms. On their website, project developers also offer useful advice for students concerned about diminishing their energy use, including “Run around your room naked. Then you’ll have fewer clothes to wash,” and, more seriously, “CFLs use about one-fourth the energy of an incandescent lightbulb.”
Also presenting were ANDREW SCHEIN and DANIEL VINH, who described a rainwater harvesting system at Synergy. The system captures and provides rainwater for use in Synergy’s compost and garden beds throughout the year. The students hope eventually to expand the catchment system to university building rooftops.
ROBERT FISHER, professor of neurology and director of Stanford Hospital’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, is the recipient of the 2010 Pierre Gloor Award. The award is presented annually by the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society for outstanding current contributions to clinical neurophysiology research and is the organization’s highest distinction.
Nnemkadi Ogwumike
Jayne Appel
With Nnemkadi Ogwumike’s 16 points and 10 rebounds and Jayne Appel’s 15 points, women’s basketball rolled to a 70-46 victory over UCLA on Sunday, winning its eighth Pac-10 tournament championship.
It was a week filled with good news for the team. Here are the headlines:
In other sports news this weekend, Stanford’s synchronized swim team finished second in the U.S. Collegiate Nationals.
Forbes named Stanford one of the “World’s Most Beautiful Campuses.” The Farm is in good company. Oxford, Princeton, Kenyon, Scripps and Yale also are named. The full announcement is on the Forbes website, but beware: Interspersed with each campus beauty shot is a car ad.
Alum Faye-McNair Knox, director of One East Palo Alto, was named “Woman of the Year” by state Assemblyman Ira Ruskin. McNair-Knox earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford in 1972, master’s degrees in education in ’73 and linguistics in ’75, and a doctorate in education in ’85. She was honored March 8 at a ceremony sponsored by the California Legislative Women’s Caucus. According to an article in the Palo Alto Weekly, Ruskin cited McNair-Knox’s “long history of making a difference in East Palo Alto and this state.”
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