Stanford University was ordered by a judge on Tuesday to reinstate a former medical school clinical faculty member who left his job last fall. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Peter Stone ruled that Stanford must reinstate Dr. Adolph Pfefferbaum and must offer him a hearing if the university wants to change his job. Pfefferbaum quit his Stanford-affiliated psychiatry post at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Medical Center last fall because of working conditions. At that point, Stanford removed him as a medical school faculty member without holding an administrative hearing.
Formation of a new research center at Stanford University was announced on Wednesday. The Stanford Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform will study the relationship between economic reform policies and actual economic development. Anne O. Krueger, an economics professor, will be the center's first director.
The wing of Green Oaks Family Academy in East Palo Alto, heavily damaged in a Jan. 13 fire, will be demolished, beginning on Saturday. The classroom wing will be removed to make way for new construction. Until new facilities are ready, the school is holding classes in other rooms.
A group of Stanford students has created a new fund for socially responsible investing and are soliciting donations from their classmates. Formation of the new fund came after the idea was rejected by a committee of the Stanford Board of Trustees. "The manner in which Stanford involves students is disgraceful," said Bill Shen, president of the student government and one of the students who created the new fund.
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