The university's towering, historic eucalyptus trees are threatened by a tiny Australian insect brought to California five years ago. Convocation 1998 was packed with events and filled with emotional moments as 1,700 freshmen arrived on campus and bade farewell to their parents. Stanford faculty and student awards and honors. A stunning fourth nobel prize in a row for a Stanford physicist. This time the honor goes to Robert B. Laughlin.
Scientists get a grant to study more closely just what makes crops grow.
Night turned Briefly into day in Earth's Ionosphere Aug. 27th from a cataclysmic magnetic flare on a star 20,000 light years away. What you remember and forget depends on how two distinct parts of the brain process the information, Stanford and Harvard neuroscientists have found. Twelve outstanding athletes from 10 sports have been inducted as the class of 1998 into the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame, which already has 300 members. Stanford has a new field hockey facility right next to Sunken Diamond, where the old Maloney soccer field used to be, while soccer has moved to the new Maloney Fields. Ethnic identities have become more complex as the numbers of interracial couples and children of mixed races rise all around the country.