SUMC in the News (12/02/05)
Print media coverage
San Mateo Daily Journal, 12/02/05
Stanford union sets strike date
BEmployees from Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital have announced they would strike at 5 a.m. on Dec. 12 if hospital management continues to refuse to return to the bargaining table. Christopher Dawes, president and CEO of Packard, and Martha Marsh, president and CEO of SHC, are quoted in this article. A brief item also appears in the San Jose Mercury News.
Washington Times, 12/02/05
Now there's proof: Men, women different
This article discusses a new Stanford study that found gender affects the way a
person's brain responds to humor. An opinion piece on the study also appears in
the Clayton Tribune (Clayton, Ga.) and references Allan Reiss, the Howard C.
Robbins Professor.
San Francisco Chronicle, 12/02/05
1980
Twenty-five years ago, a patent covering basic gene-splicing techniques of
recombinant DNA was granted to Stanford and UCSF. The patent was based on the
pioneering work of Stanley Cohen, the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor, and Herbert Boyer
of UCSF.
Broadcast media coverage
KGO-TV, 12/02/05
This segment discussed how hospital employees have announced a strike deadline
of December 12. Similar segments aired on KGO-AM, KNTV-TV, KTVU-TV, KRON-TV,
KQED-FM, KPFA-FM and KRXI-TV (Reno).
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