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.