Stanford Physicists and Engineers Take First Step Toward Quantum Cryptography
Posted On Saturday, November 17, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: New York, Peter McMahon, San Francisco, Stanford physicists, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Stanford researchers demonstrate the first step in a scalable quantum cryptography system that could lead to uncrackable telecommunications.
Quantum mechanics offers the potential to create absolutely secure telecommunications networks by harnessing a fundamental phenomenon of quantum particles. Now, a team of Stanford physicists has demonstrated a crucial first step in creating ...
Stanford School of Education Course Tackles Challenges of Digital Learning
Posted On Saturday, November 17, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Digital learning, K-12 teachers, Mitchell Stevens, MOOCs, Stanford School
A free-flowing, ambitious course brings students, faculty and professionals together to debate Education's Digital Future.
Amid all the hyperbolic proclamations that massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are poised to take over the educational universe, dispassionate and well-trained minds are needed to assess just exactly what is going on with digital ...
Stanford Campus to Honor its Past and Present Veterans
Posted On Monday, November 12, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Haas Center for Public Service, Returning Home, Stanford Military Service Network, Stanford Storytelling Project
The Stanford community will celebrate Veterans Day with several events, including a reception today in the Law School lounge, a private event at the Graduate School of Business on Friday, an evening of storytelling on Sunday in the Old Union, and the placement of floral wreaths in Memorial Court and ...
Stanford Student Journalists Cover Election From Political Command Center
Posted On Sunday, November 11, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: election, journalists, political, Thomas Hayden
From the high-tech, information-inundated Wallenberg Learning Theater, Stanford journalism students covered the election for the Peninsula Press and KQED News.
The students were hunched over laptops, watching the election results for California's Proposition 37, "Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Food." At the moment, only 29 percent of precincts were reporting – ...
Recent College Grad Becomes Youngest Councilman in Stockton History
Posted On Sunday, November 11, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Cory Booker, Michael Tubbs, Stockton history
'We can change Stockton,' the Stanford graduate says. 'I never said I was going to do it by myself. But I can be the catalyst. I can bring ideas and the research. I have a sense of hope.'
FRESNO — Michael Tubbs, 22, a Stanford grad who began his Stockton City ...
Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project Turns 10
Posted On Sunday, November 11, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Global Climate and Energy Project, Sally Benson, School of Engineering, Shanhui Fan
Stanford University engineer Shanhui Fan envisions a future where we don't just drive electric cars, we drive them on highways embedded with evenly spaced metal coils, generating electrical currents that charge the car wirelessly as it barrels down the road – car and coil never touch. While Fan and his Stanford team ...
Ann F. Marshall, 'a World-Class Electron Microscopist,' to Receive the 2012 Marsh O'Neill Award
Posted On Sunday, November 11, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: electron microscopist, Marsh O'Neill Award, Stanford Nano Center
Marshall, who arrived at Stanford in 1979, has dedicated her career to training others and to enhancing the excellence of materials characterization at the university.
An expert at both the theory and practice of electron microscopy. An outstanding woman scientist who has mentored, nurtured and trained generations of graduate students. A ...
Stanford University Libraries Acquires large Bahai- Collection
Posted On Thursday, November 8, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, John Eilts, Libraries, Stanford University
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Millionaire Migration a Myth, Say Researchers at Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
Posted On Monday, November 5, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Inequality, migration, myth, Poverty, Stanford Center
Anti-tax advocates argue that millionaires will flee from states that raise taxes on their highest earners. But a study by Stanford and Princeton researchers shows no evidence of millionaire migration in response to recent tax rate changes. Other factors, such as personal and business contacts, seem to weigh more heavily ...
Stanford Students in D.C. Get Opportunity for Hands-on Democracy
Posted On Monday, November 5, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center, Bing Stanford in Washington, democracy, Jake Horowitz, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, PolicyMic, Stanford
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Study Finds Elevated Levels of Formaldehyde, other Contaminants, in Day Care Centers
Posted On Monday, October 29, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Act of 1986, Berkeley, California Air Resources Board, CERCH, Formaldehyde, University of California
BERKELEY —A new, comprehensive survey of day care centers by University of California, Berkeley, researchers found that, overall, the environmental quality in child care settings was similar to other indoor environments, but that levels of formaldehyde and several other contaminants exceeded state health guidelines. Cleaning- and sanitizing-related chemicals were also ...
State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Congratulates Bear Valley Superintendent and District for Promoting Good Health and Nutrition
Posted On Saturday, October 20, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Healthy Kids All-Star, Santa Monica Pier, Torlakson
SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today recognized Bear Valley Unified School District Superintendent Kurt Madden for his commitment to promoting student health and fitness, calling him a "Team California for Healthy Kids All-Star."
Madden* will run the 100-Mile Endurance Challenge this weekend that starts in Corona in western Riverside County and ...
How to Prove a Sexual Addiction
Posted On Friday, October 19, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: DSM-5, hypersexual disorder, late night TV, sexual addiction, sexual behaviors, UCLA Department of Psychiatry
The idea that an individual might suffer from a sexual addiction is great fodder for radio talk shows, comedians and late night TV. But a sex addiction is no laughing matter. Relationships are destroyed, jobs are lost, lives ruined.
Yet psychiatrists have been reluctant to accept the idea of out-of-control sexual ...
Proudly Eclectic and Free, KALX Radio Celebrates 50 Years on the Air
Posted On Friday, October 19, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: East Bay punk, John Lennon, KALX studio, Stand By Me
BERKELEY — Not every college radio station can boast of interviewing John Lennon live, from his bed; becoming the official broadcaster for a Major League Baseball team (the Oakland A’s, for just 16 games); running station-ID spots recorded by Charles Manson (these lasted only a week before good taste prevailed); playing ...
Claire Kremen: Wild bees and the future of food
Posted On Thursday, October 18, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: bees, Claire Kremen, fallows, food, meadows, pastures, woodlots
Each year, farmers in the U.S. import millions of honeybees, which aren’t native, to pollinate crops like apples, strawberries, and almonds. Berkeley conservation biologist Claire Kremen discusses how farmers could harness the power of native bees for free to pollinate our crops.
This interview is part of a special EarthSky series, ...
James and Anna Marie Spilker pledge $28 million to Stanford
Posted On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: AIAA, Plummer, Spilkers, State-of-the-Art, Summerfield Book Award
The gift from the GPS pioneer and his wife, a real estate investor, will name The James and Anna Marie Spilker Engineering and Applied Sciences Building in the Science and Engineering Quad and endow a professorship in the School of Engineering.
James J. Spilker Jr., a Stanford School of Engineering alumnus ...
Stanford visiting Professor Alvin Roth wins Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Posted On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Economics, Lloyd Shapley, microeconomic engineers, Professor Alvin Roth
Harvard economist Alvin Roth, who is transitioning to Stanford, has been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on market design. He shares the prize with Lloyd Shapley, professor emeritus at UCLA. Roth is a pioneer in the field of game theory and experimental economics and ...
Basketball Legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Serve as California's After School STEM Ambassador
Posted On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: Blueprint for Great Schools, California STEM Summit, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tom Torlakson
SACRAMENTO—Basketball legend and New York Times best-selling author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will help lead efforts to boost after school STEM learning opportunities for California's kids, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced today at the California STEM Summit in San Diego.
Education in STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math—is widely considered to be one ...
