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...with her husband’s athletic socks stuffed in her pants and announced that she and her team had “balls as big as anybody’s.” Fiorina says she was not always attracted to a career in business. She graduated from Stanford with a degree in medieval history and philosophy in 1976 before enrolling in law school at the University of California, Los Angeles. She did not find law to be her calling, however, and soon dropped out and took a job as an office secretary at a commercial real estate firm...
After decades spent unraveling the secrets of human DNA, Harvard alum Roger D. Kornberg ’67 received the Nobel Prize last week for uncovering the crystal structure of the protein necessary to make DNA more than just a blueprint. Kornberg, who is currently a professor at Stanford University, presented a frame-by-frame view of RNA polymerase interacting with DNA——a conversion that leads to the construction of proteins necessary for life. Kornberg’s discovery, published in the journal Science in 2001, showed in atomic detail the chemical construction...
...place much emphasis on statistical rankings like this one. “We’re always pleased to have our excellence recognized while we do not set great store by numerical rankings,” McGrath Lewis said. The other U.S. schools in the top 10 were Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, and University of California, Berkeley. Cambridge and Oxford were ranked second and third respectively, each moving up one position from last year’s report. The 200 schools in the THES ranking were spread among 30 countries around the world. The highest ranked school outside...
...winner this year was research on RNA--the genetic "messenger" that transcribes DNA code so it can be made into proteins. Work in this area earned the chemistry prize for Stanford University's Roger Kornberg and the medicine prize for Andrew Fire, also of Stanford, and the University of Massachusetts' Craig Mello. Studying RNA is important because a full understanding of its functions could lead to therapies and cures for diseases linked to defective genes...
...newspapers than his own lab tests. And Robin comes across as a spoiled brat who only blows the whistle because she has an axe to grind with her ex. The characters’ antics sometimes go beyond the strange into the bizarre. While walking along the Charles River, the Stanford-educated Cliff comes up with a “profound idea” to “walk across the river.” He soon discovers that his idea isn’t so profound...