News releases

Charles Y. Prescott, physics professor and faculty chair at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), and Christopher Field, biology professor, by courtesy, and staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington on campus, have been elected to the National Academy...

The American Library Association (ALA) has honored Louise Addis, whose innovations in information technology spawned the world's first virtual library and made her America's first library webmaster.

Pehong Chen, founder and CEO of BroadVision (Nasdaq: BVSN), and his wife, Adele, will donate $15 million to Stanford University to establish a new institute for the study of particle astrophysics and cosmology.

The international BABAR Collaboration at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) has just released initial results on the behavior of subatomic particles known as B mesons.

The City of Menlo Park has given the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) a 2000 Environmental Quality Award in recognition of SLAC's success in reducing air pollution.

Scientists at DOEs Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) were in the last three days of the scheduled operation of the B Factorys PEP II collider with fingers crossed.

President Clinton today named Sidney Drell as a winner of the Enrico Fermi Award, given for a lifetime of achievement in the field of nuclear energy. Dr. Drell will receive the award for his contributions to arms control and national...

The award acknowledged the on-time, on-budget completion of the $293 million B Factory Project.

Using high-intensity lasers, scientists hope to simulate a black hole event horizon in a laboratory, something that has never been done before.

Today NASA announced an award to Stanford University for development of a space-based gamma-ray telescope named GLAST.