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DIED. HENRY TAUBE, 89, Stanford University chemist whose studies of how electrons move between molecules during chemical reactions illuminated the workings of such important processes as photosynthesis and engine combustion and won him the 1983 Nobel Prize; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...book is indispensable, and, regardless of style, provides truckloads of trivia, such as the genesis of the word “google.” To arrive at that household name, Brin and Page unintentionally misspelled the math term “googol,” proving that even Stanford educated computer junkies make mistakes (if they were Harvard-educated, things might have been different). Brin and Page did not invent the search engine concept, but they certainly refined it. Unlike most of its competitors, Google used PageRank technology to compile results according to importance and would not allow advertisement...
...league victories are second only to the legendary Pete Carill of Princeton, who tallied 315 wins. She remains the only head coach in NCAA history to guide a No. 16 seed to a win over a No. 1 in the NCAA tournament, which she did against Stanford...
While many of her players took summer internships or joined summer basketball leagues, Delaney-Smith was coaching the likes of 2005 Naismith Player of the Year Seimone Augustus of LSU and preseason All-American Monique Currie from Duke. Players from perennial national powerhouses Texas Tech, Stanford, Notre Dame, and Ohio State were on the squad...
...ethnically and geographically diverse group of undergraduates discussing their Harvard experiences. The videos are divided into sections such as “the Climate and East-Coasters” and “It’s not the stuck-up, crazy place…” Stanford, Princeton, and Yale don’t have anything similar on their admissions sites...