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Institutions RSS FeedsFor kids, altruism comes naturally, psychologist says - Drop something in front of a 2-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. Can't get into a cabinet because your hands are full? Count on the watchful toddler to wander over and open the door. And that stapler you were using a few minutes ago?where did it go again? Oh, yes?over there, right where she's pointing....Feed Source: news-service.stanford.edu 100th birthday of Messiaen celebrated with a concert series - Stanford audiences will have a chance to experience Olivier Messaien's ethereal and otherworldly 'Quatuor pour la fin du temps' ('Quartet for the End of Time') at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in Memorial Church?the launch of Lively Arts' three-month celebration of the 100th anniversary Messiaen's birth.... Department chair creates room for moms - Since adopting a policy in 2005 that provides 12 weeks of support for pregnant graduate students, Chemistry Department administrators have been fielding a set of relatively new questions from expectant mothers: "Is this like maternity leave?" and "Will I be able to maintain full-time status while I'm away?"... Ghost trackers - More than 100 staff, faculty and students turned out Friday for the 1.5-mile Halloween Monster Mash Walk at Cobb Track. The event was part of the Pac-10 Fitness Challenge.... University issues new Acts of Intolerance Protocol - Stanford has issued a revised policy outlining how the university will respond to "acts of intolerance," defined as acts that adversely and unfairly target a person or group on the basis of one or more actual or perceived characteristics: gender or gender identity, race or ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, nationality and age.... Electoral college students - On Monday, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom spoke outside Old Union at a rally for Barack Obama and in opposition to state Proposition 4, the Abortion Waiting Period and Parental Notification Initiative, and Proposition 8, which would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry.... Current contact information must be listed for next test of emergency-notification system - Students, staff and faculty are being urged to update their contact information prior to the next test of the university's emergency-notification system, AlertSU, on Nov. 14.... Dopamine is key to a parasite?s ability to unite rat and cat, researcher says - Who knew cat urine could be sexy? With a dab here and a dab there, you can have male rats swooning over you. For this unlikely love potion to work, however, the rodents must be infected with a protozoan called 'Toxoplasma gondii'.... Yellowstone amphibians killed by global warming, study finds - Frogs and salamanders, those amphibious bellwethers of environmental danger, are being killed in Yellowstone National Park. The predator, Stanford researchers say, is global warming.... PBS stations to air recent Stanford events - Over the next several days, KQED and KTEH will broadcast recordings of several recent Stanford events, including The Roundtable at Stanford: "Wanted: Courage, Compassion and Character?Leadership for the 21st Century."... 'Ghostpile' ponders Sacramento Valley - Many people consider the Sacramento Valley kind of a no-place. Not photographer Lukas Felzmann, who is fascinated by the very thing that some would find boring, flat and disconsolate. His exhibition, 'Ghostpile', will be featured Nov. 4 through Dec. 14 at the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery.... Psychologist Michael Tomasello to deliver Tanner Lectures - Michael Tomasello, the co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, will deliver the 2008 Tanner Lectures in Human Values Oct. 29-31.... Core of sun spins more slowly than next layer, study finds - The dense, hot, radioactive core of the Sun rotates significantly more slowly than the layer next to it, the radiative zone, a Stanford solar physicist has concluded.... WTO director says more trade can help ease financial crisis - The head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said expanding import and export opportunities is essential to ease the global financial crisis, and warned that curbing free trade could increase economic instability.... Provost discusses how economic downturn could affect university - Financial uncertainty has affected every sector of the national and international economy?including higher education. In the following interview, Provost John Etchemendy talks about the impact of the economic downturn on the university's fiscal outlook and budget planning.... Copyright © 2012, Hidbid.com - The Free eBay Auction Sniper. All Rights Reserved. |