http://bcsc.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/bcsc/events.php Updates and upcoming events from the Black Community Students Center at Stanford University en-us Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:22:52 -0700 http://bcsc.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/bcsc/events.php Stanford police are investigating a recent string of burglaries in which thieves entered buildings on campus with relative ease and plucked laptop computers from enclosed offices and open cubicles prompting a reminder that individuals take the necessary precautions to reduce the chance of becoming a victim. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:07:03 -0700 http://bcsc.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/bcsc/events.php Recently graduated senior Joseph Bergen and nine other students worked together to map the Stanford campus in 3-D and emerged as one of seven teams to win a contest hosted by Google to create 3-D models of their respective college campuses for the search giant's geographic information feature, Google Earth. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:06:40 -0700 http://bcsc.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/bcsc/events.php Gray whales in the Pacific Ocean, long thought to have fully recovered from whaling, were once three to five times as plentiful as they are now, according to a report to be published September 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:06:01 -0700 http://bcsc.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/bcsc/events.php Last spring, Passages of Martin Luther King, a play written by history Professor Clayborne Carson, founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute and director of the King Papers Project, had a groundbreaking five-night run in Beijing. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:05:41 -0700 http://bcsc.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/bcsc/events.php The Grammy-nominated St. Lawrence String Quartet, Stanford's esteemed quartet-in-residence, launches its series of three Sunday concerts with a program of three strongly profiled, virtuosic works. Beethoven's five-movement Quartet No. 15 in A Minor is set alongside Haydn's witty C Major quartet. Leaping to the 20th century, the foursome tackles the "dry and sardonic" John's Book of Alleged Dances by John Adams. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:04:10 -0700 http://bcsc.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/bcsc/events.php David Friend, "Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11" A unique and powerfully affecting account of the most universally observed news event in human history: the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:01:45 -0700 http://bcsc.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/bcsc/events.php Mozilla Corporation is hosting a global conference taking place online and at locations in Japan, Europe and at Stanford's very own Wallenberg Hall. Mozilla 24 will feature industry leaders who will present on Web trends and technologies that will help shape the future of the Web. Are you a Web developer, researcher, engineer, student or end user interested in shaping the future of the Web socially, technically and culturally? Join us, there is no cost! Meet the people behind Mozilla and talk to other interested students! Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:00:56 -0700 http://bcsc.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/bcsc/events.php Our corruptions. How does a democracy protect itself from influences that corrupt a democratic process. How does it identify those influences. In this lecture, Professor Lessig begins an inquiry into the ways in which our democracy is threatened by "corruption," and ways we might respond. Reception to follow at Crocker Garden. In celebration of Constitution Day 2007. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:58:27 -0700