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At last! Pink Slip participant gets new job
Stanford :: CA :: USA | 17 days ago
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Nearly 300 long days after he lost his aviation-tech job at San Jose's airport, Kris Rowberry is no longer grounded by unemployment. When he starts his new job on Monday moving and tracking supplies throughout Stanford University's medical school, hospitals...
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Stanford looks to private equity firms
Stanford :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility So, the university is now looking for another $1 billion, this time from private equity firms that might be tempted into taking some of the university's $14.5 billion worth of investments off its hands. Although the story became public in the past few...
Tags: private equity, secondary market, equity assets, Stanford University, equity firms
Stanford Seeks to Unload Assets
Singapore :: Singapore | about 1 month ago
Credibility Stanford University, which lost a quarter of its endowment last year, has put on the block as much as $1 billion of hard-to-sell investments ranging from private equity to real estate to timberland as it seeks to raise cash, according to people familiar...
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Washington lamenting defensive mistakes
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility With every tackle Stanford's Toby Gerhart shed, Daniel Te'o-Nesheim knew the numbers were getting out of hand and the film would not be fun to watch. "I left the game hating myself and down in the dumps," Washington's soft-spoken defensive end said Monday....
Tags: University of Washington, Steve Sarkisian, Stanford University, LSU, Daniel T, USC, defense end, Huskies
Report: Stanford University hit by 26 percent decline in investments
Stanford :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility With a 25.9 percent decline, Stanford was outperformed by much smaller Santa Clara University, which stuck to a simpler and more traditional approach and suffered a less dismal 21 percent decline. Stanford's loss, announced Wednesday morning, marks a...
Tags: Stanford University, Stanford Management Company, percent decline
Post Graduate scholar on the streets
Cai Mingjie was a Ph D scholar of Stanford University but fate ordained that he drive cabs in Singapore. He had a cushy job in a Singapore Research institution, and worked for 16 long years as principal investigator. He was a professor but once he lost...
Tags: cai mingjie, stanford university, Singapore Research institution
Study: Human fat yields multipurpose stem cells
Stanford :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility You know that fat in your body you wish you didn't have? It turns out those cells could be used to create stem cells that one day may be able to cure disease. Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that the millions of fat...
Tags: stem cells, Dr. Michael Longaker, Stanford University, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford's School of Medicine, liposuction leftovers, skin cells, pluripotent stem, induced pluripotent, cells researcher
Stanford lays off hundreds as endowment shrinks
Stanford :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Stanford University has laid off 412 employees and plans an additional 60 layoffs later this year to offset a steep drop in the value of its endowment. More News Stanford officials said Tuesday that layoffs have been spread throughout its graduate schools,...
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Woman Threatened With Foreclosure Over Two Cents - Literally
According to the San Jose Mercury News, Lisa A. Burns wants to add her two cents to the debate over our country's housing crisis. Actually, she wants to hurl her two cents. After all, she received a letter from her lender threatening foreclosure of her...
Tags: san jose mercury news, lisa a. burns, foreclosure, 51, 1988, $1300, laid off, project manager, stanford university, refinancing, lender, wells fargo home mortgage, 6.75%, making home affordable program, september 15, teri schrettenbrunner
Study finds people who multitask often bad at it
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The people who multitask the most are the ones who are worst at it. That's the surprising conclusion of researchers at Stanford University, who found multitaskers are more easily distracted and less able to ignore irrelevant information than people who...
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