On Tuesday, Student veterans SEBASTAIN GOULD and GUEZ SALINAS visit Memorial Auditorium to read a Veterans Day letter from President John Hennessy and view the honor roll of engraved names of members of the Stanford community who gave their lives in war.
NTOZAKE SHANGE, who wrote the acclaimed play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, will be on campus Friday, Nov. 12, as part of the Black Community Services Center’s Intellectual Roundtable series. The event is particularly timely, given that the film For Colored Girls, based on Shange’s 1974 play, was released just last week.
“Many of our students have become familiar with Ms. Shange’s work based on the movie For Colored Girls,” said Jan Barker Alexander, director of the Black Community Services Center. “Her visit gives students an opportunity to explore her motivation for writing the original choreopoem, examine her timeless approach to issues such as rape, molestation and domestic violence, and discuss the modern-day adaptation by Tyler Perry. ”
The noontime discussion, co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, the Drama Department and the Riddell Fund, is free and open to the public. It will be held in the Henry and Monique Brandon Family Community Room at the Black Community Services Center.
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MICHELE BARRY, senior associate dean for global health at the School of Medicine, and her colleagues have received a $10 million grant to help improve medical education at the University of Zimbabwe over the next five years. The grant was funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Medical Education Partnership Initiative.
Barry is a co-principal investigator, along with BONNIE MALDONADO, chief of infectious disease at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and DAVID KATZENSTEIN, professor of infectious diseases, for the grant called the Novel Education Clinical Trainees and Researchers program, or NECTAR. Stanford will partner with the University of Zimbabwe Medical School and University of Colorado to strengthen medical education in innovative ways.
Read the full announcement on the Medical School’s website.
During the Bang on a Can All-Stars’ performance of DAVID LANG’s Sunray last week, some in the audience may have noticed the composer inconspicuously seated in Dinkelspiel Auditorium next to a genial and dignified silver-haired gentleman.
Lang composed Sunray for the 80th birthday of his father, DR. DANIEL LANG. That was four years ago but, ironically, his father had never heard the piece performed.
But after talking about his dad with CYNTHIA HAVEN of the Stanford News Service, Lang decided to rectify the problem. He invited his father, who had always wanted his son to follow in his footsteps as a doctor, to Stanford for the West Coast premiere of the piece.
Presumably, the good doctor has reconciled himself to his son’s Pulitzer Prize-winning vocation. Accepting the invitation, he flew in for the concert. Friends said he was delighted to be here, and grinning from ear to ear.
KATJA ZELLJADT has been named the new associate director of the Humanities Center. She will come to Stanford for the beginning of winter quarter 2011.
Zelljadt currently heads the scholars program at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. She directs the fellowship and academic programs for about 50 researchers in the broad field of art history. She also helped found the Getty Research Journal, a peer-reviewed venue for scholarly writing; she has been its managing editor for three years.
She received her PhD in German history from Harvard and taught at the University of Southern California. She has worked at several museums, including the Harvard Art Museums and Berlin’s Deutsches Historisches Museum. Her interests and writing have focused on historiography, collecting, display and museum history, as well as urbanization, historic preservation and photography.
ARON RODRIGUE, director of the Humanities Center, praised “her professionalism, her unique background experience and her enthusiasm.” He described her work at the Getty Research Institute as “superb.”
Zelljadt succeeds MATTHEW TIEWS, who assumed the new position of executive director of arts programs for the School of Humanities and Sciences on October 1.
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Actor GEORGE CLOONEY will speak on campus Monday, Nov. 8, for a Stanford-only event. He will appear with author and human rights activist John Prendergast in a conversation titled “Sudan: Preventing the Next War.” Tickets are no longer available.
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The 1970 Cardinal football team that won the Pac-8 championship and upset second-ranked Ohio State in the Rose Bowl will be honored at halftime of Saturday’s game against Arizona.
Former players expected to be in attendance include Heisman Trophy-winner JIM PLUNKETT, JEFF SIEMON, PETE LAZETICH, PHIL SATRE, JOHN SANDE, JACKIE BROWN, HILLARY SHOCKLEY and DAVE TIPTON.
JOHN RALSTON, who coached Stanford to back-to-back Rose Bowl victories, will also be on hand, along with former assistant coaches MIKE WHITE and ROGER THEDER.
Stanford’s famed sports information duo of BOB MURPHY and GARY CAVALLI, who headed up Plunkett’s Heisman Trophy campaign, also will be honored.
The 1970 team finished with a 9-3 overall record and was ranked eighth in the final Top 20 poll released by the Associated Press after Stanford upset the heavily favored Ohio State Buckeyes, 27-17, in the Rose Bowl.
Read the full story on the Athletics website.
Parking & Transportation Services launched its inaugural 2010 Bike Safety Dorm Challenge last week. The goal? To encourage students to follow the rules of the road and wear a helmet for every ride. The incentive? The dorm with the highest percentage of participants will win a charter bus trip to Lake Tahoe.
The challenge runs through Dec. 10. The winner will be announced Jan. 5. To participate, students complete an online bike safety quiz and pledge to wear a bike helmet for every ride, even short trips. All Stanford students in undergraduate dorms are eligible to pledge. Sprocket Man, Stanford’s bicycle safety hero, will randomly spot check for compliance and audit participation.
“This is the first time we are offering this level of incentive for our bicycle safety program,” Brodie Hamilton, director of Parking & Transportation Services, said. “Our hope is that this new approach will really get the word out to students by creating a buzz.”
The Bike Safety Dorm Challenge complements a wide range of ongoing bike safety efforts through Stanford’s bicycle program, officials say, including free monthly bike safety classes, free bike safety dorm road shows, discounted bike helmets, a free bike safety repair station and an innovative bike citation diversion program, through which students who are cited can attend the bike safety class in lieu of paying the bike citation fine.
“We want to create a tipping point to increase the number of bicyclists at Stanford who wear a bike helmet and follow the traffic laws that apply to all bicyclists,” Hamilton said. “Wearing a bike helmet, stopping at stop signs and using bike lights and reflectors when riding at night are more than just a way to win a trip to Tahoe. It’s a way to save lives.”
For details and to participate, visit the dorm challenge website.
2010-11 National Security Affairs Fellows: Front row, left to right: Lt. Col. Leif Eckholm and Lt. Col. Brenda Cartier, both U.S. Air Force. Back row, left to right: Lt. Col. Joseph “JP” McGee, U.S. Army; Lt. Col. Minter Ralston, U.S. Marines; and Cmdr. David Slayton, U.S. Navy.
2010-11 National Fellows: Front row, left to right: Jeffrey Lax, Michael Tomz, Laura Veldkamp, Catherine Hafer and Elizabeth “Lisa” Cobbs Hoffman. Back row, left to right: Scott Littlefield, Rob Fleck, Jonathan Rodden, Dimitri Landa and Col. Chuji Ando. Not pictured: Christophe Crombez, Stephen Kotkin, James “JJ” Prescott, Alberto Simpser, Yuri Slezkine and Bruce Thornton
The Hoover Institution‘s National Fellows and National Security Affairs Fellows have arrived for the current academic year. The National Fellows program allows participants to take time away from teaching to conduct research projects. The National Security Affairs program is open to members of the military and government agencies who want to pursue topics relevant to their branches of government and to the practice of diplomacy.
—Adam Gorlick
Photos: Stanford Visual Art Services
Photo by Steve Castillo
Former Secretary of State GEORGE P. SHULTZ was feted Thursday in honor of his 90th birthday by GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, the presidents of Princeton, MIT, Chicago and Stanford, and about 400 well-wishers and colleagues at a higher education innovation summit and elegant campus dinner celebration.
Hailing Shultz as a “global leader” and treasured mentor, Schwarzenegger spoke for more than 45 minutes about the advice he has received during his tenure as governor from the elder statesman. He recounted how the two became fast friends in the course of a single minute, when Shultz agreed to endorse Schwarzenegger’s candidacy for California governor in 2002.
“George has been at my side since then,” Schwarzenegger said, noting that in his first month in office “George told me to compromise enough to get a deal done. He said I had to prove, to show right away off the top, that I can bring Democrats and Republicans together on an issue. George’s recommendation and his advice was always about coalition building.”
Before raising a champagne toast to the man he called “my friend, my partner, my idol,” Schwarzenegger teased Shultz with his own movie line: “George is 90 years old and doesn’t stop. After every big move, he says, ‘I’ll be back … ‘”
The celebration was preceded by a panel conversation by the presidents of the four universities that Shultz has been affiliated with as either a student or faculty member: SHIRLEY TILGHMAN, president of Princeton, where Shultz earned his undergraduate degree; SUSAN HOCKFIELD, president of MIT, where he earned his doctorate and also served on the faculty; ROBERT ZIMMER, president of the University of Chicago, where he served as a professor and a dean; and JOHN HENNESSY, president of Stanford, where Shultz is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution. The panel’s moderator was Stanford President Emeritus GERHARD CASPER, who also was at Chicago with Shultz.
The discussion was part of a symposium titled “Ideas and Action: A Symposium in Honor of George P. Shultz.”
The events were sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
—Lisa Lapin
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