Faculty in the News Archive:

February, 2013

Sodium Girl Jessica Goldman Foung Finds Flavor Sans Salt.

February 28, 2013

A food blog written by a cookbook author and Stanford aluma, Jessica Goldman Foung (BA English '05).

Read the story - Bay Area Bites

Workers Adding to Egyptian Chaos as Strike Wave Disrupts Economy

February 27, 2013

Stanford History professor Joel Beinin is quoted in this examination of the current Egyptian Economy.

Read the story - Bloomberg Businessweek

In Ian Morris's Big History, the Future Looms Large

February 25, 2013

Professor of Classics Ian Morris' latest book analyzed 15,000 years of data to explain why the West is
dominant.
Now the intelligence community wants to know what will happen next.

Read the story - Chronicle of Higher Education

Voice of a Storyteller: Chance meeting of Twain, Paris youngster inspired narrative voice of Huck Finn

February 24, 2013

The Tribune-Star

OMG! LOL!!! and Other Things Guys Don't Tweet.

February 21, 2013

Tyler Schnoebelen, MA Linguistics '09, PhD '12, is coauthor of a paper analyzing the differences in how men
and
women communicate on Twitter

Read the story - HLNtv

Paternité, Maternité, Egalité

February 20, 2013

In an article for the Boston Review, French professor Cécile Alduy shares her views on the French reaction to new laws that will legalize marriage and adoption for same-sex couples.

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Paternité, Maternité, et Egalité

February 20, 2013

The Boston Review, February 20, 2013

Paternité, Maternité, et Egalité

The Humanities, Unraveled.

February 18, 2013

An article on higher education in the Humanities that mentins Stanford University's effort to encourage a five-year
program for humanities PhDs.

Read the story - Chronicle of Higher Education

Michael Toms Dies - 'New Dimensions' Radio Host

February 14, 2013

Obituary mentions that in 2007 the Stanford University Libraries acquired the archive of Toms' audio
interviews of about 3,000 individuals, including the Dalai Lama, Joseph Campbell, R. Buckminster
Fuller, President Jimmy Carter, J. Krishnamurti, Maya Angelou and Alice Walker.

Read the story - San Francisco Chronicle

Bay Area Author Offers Unique Cultural Perspective.

February 14, 2013

Jonathan R. Miller, AB Human Biology '96, says his biracial perspective drives his characters.

Read the story - San Jose Mercury News