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Student Murals
Photo: L.A. Cicero, Stanford News Service
Durand residents Jessica Hou, '04,
Maria Downing, '04, and Brie Boutin, '03
Take a tour of Stanford's dorm murals, and you'll see everything from
guerrilla warfare to gummi-bear collage. Murals serve co-ops' self-management
ethos and ethnic theme dorms' desire to illustrate cultural heritage,
explains associate director of residential education John Judicki. More
Faculty Life
When President Bush awarded chemist John Brauman the National Medal of
Science, the country's highest scientific honor, the scientist did not
become the talk of his neighborhood. Maybe that's because down Tolman
Drive, a small, fishhook-shaped residential street on the Stanford campus,
lives mathematician George Dantzig, another National Medal of Science
recipient who invented programming methods that shaped the current use
of computers. More
Students Pioneering Music and Technology
Michael Gurevich, a graduate student at the Center for Computer Research
in Music and Acoustics, and Stephan von Muehlen, who earned an MFA in
product design, invented the Accordiatron in a Stanford course. Although
people have been making music with computers for decades, Gurevich says,
live audiences don't find the standard monitor-keyboard-mouse setup very
satisfying. The Accordiatron could change that. More
Bernhardt reaches out to Lower Row, one house at a time
Photo: L.A. Cicero, Stanford News
Service
Sophomore Alda Balthrop-Lewis,
left, is one of many students who have been mentored
by Elizabeth Bernhardt, recently appointed dean of
the Lower Row. Bernhardt is also director of the Language
Center.
Elizabeth Bernhardt, a German Studies professor and director of the
Stanford Language Center, moved into the renovated Humanities Center
Annex on Alvarado Row after she was tapped for the new position of Dean
of the Lower Row. As part of her duties, Bernhardt reviewed all the transcripts
of the 250-plus sophomores who live in Lower Row housing and sent them
personalized e-mails to ask if they needed help with declaring a major.
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Native Americans at Stanford Build Community
The Stanford American Indian Organization is the umbrella organization
of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians at Stanford.
They have met with great success in building community at Stanford. More
Students Go Behind the Scenes at Cantor Arts
The Cantor Arts Museum increasingly is creating ties between the museum
and Stanford's academic curriculum. The Picasso to Thiebaud exhibit
recently gave students a perfect opportunity for just such a connection.
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Undergraduate Research
Seven students, many working with H&S faculty, were award the Deans'
Award for Academic Accomplishment in 2003. More
