How Sweden It Is
Physicist Robert Laughlin was not the only Stanfordite heading to Stockholm to pick up a prize in December. Freshman Sohini Ramachandran was there, too, to pick up the Nobel Travel Award, given to three promising students of science each year. Four faculty members got the nod to become fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Mark A. Krasnow, associate professor of biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator; Abel L. Robertson Jr., visiting professor emeritus in the School of Medicine's division of cardiovascular medicine; Douglas A. Skoog, professor emeritus of chemistry; and Judith L. Swain, the Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor and department of medicine chair.
At Your Service
Two staff members have been awarded the University's annual Marshall D. O'Neill Award for outstanding support of research. Christopher Scott, MS '71, MS '73, PhD '76, was cited for work on medical technology at the School of Medicine and Turgut Gür was recognized for his leadership at the Center for Materials Research. Robert Sapolsky, professor of biological sciences, landed the annual Laurance and Naomi Carpenter Hoagland Prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Last year's sophomores cast ballots for the award. Linda Darling-Hammond, the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education, took home the Distinguished Service Award of the Council of Chief State School Officers. Wanda Corn won the Stanford Alumni Association's annual Richard W. Lyman Award for faculty volunteer service. Association president William E. Stone, '67, MBA '69, praised the professor of art and art history for "uncountable instances of institutional citizenship that have assiduously strengthened the humanities, the visual arts, the campus and Stanford itself."
