Saying, "If there was no Stanford Graduate School of Business, there would be no Nike," Nike Inc. founder and chairman Philip H. Knight was on hand for the groundbreaking of the new Business School campus.

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Robert L. Joss, dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, announced today that he will step down at the end of the current academic year. Joss will have served 10 years as dean.

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The official home of Stanford President John Hennessy has gone solar. The electric meter for Hoover House now runs backward at times, with the solar panels creating more electricity than the house requires.

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VIDEO: Speaking at Stanford's 118th Opening Convocation, President John Hennessy urged the 1,704 freshmen and 22 transfer students to become "enthusiastic" members of the academic community.

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The School of Medicine will no longer accept support from pharmaceutical or device companies for specific programs in continuing medical education, as industry-directed funding may compromise the integrity of education programs for physicians, officials said.

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What do graduate students researching early Chinese dynasties, computers and music, risk factors for depression, and archeology have in common?

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Department's research has stretched from searching out long lost wreckage at the bottom of the ocean to investigating the rarefied heights of Einsteinian physics in orbit.

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Researchers at Stanford and at universities in Africa and Latin America are pushing the boundaries of distance learning to develop new collaborative models that will prepare students to work in an increasingly borderless world.

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You may not know it, but it is likely you need the services of a computational mathematician. Lucky for you, you’re at Stanford. Engineering has always had two pillars: theory and experimentation. Computational mathematics—the result of the dizzying increase in computers’ ability to compute—has now created a third pillar, uniting the other two. Modeling and simulation are now possible to such a degree that they play a role equal to that of theoretical math and hands-on experimentation.

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In February, 2008, Stanford University announced the largest increase in its history in its financial aid program for undergraduates.

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