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List Of Stanford University People
This page lists faculty and staff members of Stanford University. Stanford office Presidents Acting presidents were temporary appointments. Swain served while Wilbur was United States Secretary of the Interior under Herbert Hoover; Eurich and Faust after the unexpected death of Tresidder. ;Color key Provosts The position was created in 1952. Chancellors This position is often empty and has always been held by a former president. School deans Though Stanford did not originally have schools, over the years the departments have all been collected into schools. ;Color key Stanford faculty and affiliates Aeronautics and astronautics *Sigrid Close, associate professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering * William F. Durand, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering (1859–1958) * Charbel Farhat, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering * G. Scott Hubbard, adjunct profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth List of governors of California, governor of and then-incumbent List of United States senators from California, United States senator representing California) and his wife, Jane Stanford, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., Leland Jr. The university admitted its first students in 1891, opening as a Mixed-sex education, coeducational and non-denominational institution. It struggled financially after Leland died in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, university Provost (education), provost Frederick Terman inspired an entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial culture to build a self-sufficient local industry (later Silicon Valley). In 1951, Stanfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wall Lyman
Richard Wall Lyman (October 18, 1923 – May 27, 2012) was an American educator, historian, and professor who served as the seventh president of Stanford University from 1970 to 1980. Biography An historian of the British Labour Party, Lyman spent two years at the London School of Economics in 1951 and 1952, researching for his PhD on the first Labour Government. He spent the period 1954-1958 teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1957 his PhD was published as a book, entitled ''The First Labour Government, 1924''. He joined Stanford in 1958. He served as the provost of Stanford between 1967 and 1970. He then served as president of the university from 1970 to 1980. During his tenure as provost and president, he confronted campus dissidents involved in protests against the Vietnam war and other social issues of the 1960s. In the spring of 1969, he called in law enforcement authorities to evict and arrest students who were occupying campus buildings and removing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Terman
Frederick Emmons Terman (; June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American professor and academic administrator. He was the dean of the school of engineering from 1944 to 1958 and provost from 1955 to 1965 at Stanford University. He is widely credited (together with William Shockley) as being the father of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto History Project In 1951 he spearheaded the creation of Stanford Industrial Park (now ), whereby the university leased portions of its land to high-tech firms. Companies such as |
Jonathan Levin (economist)
Jonathan David Levin (born November 17, 1972) is an American economist, currently serving as the 13th president of Stanford University since August 2024. He served as the 10th dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 2016 to 2024. Levin is known for his research in industrial organization, particularly in the areas of market design, antitrust economics, and the economics of contracting. Early life and education Levin received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in English, and a Bachelor of Science with a major in mathematics from Stanford University in 1994. He pursued graduate studies, receiving a Master of Philosophy in economics from Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1996 and a Doctor of Philosophy in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999. Career Levin was a postdoctoral scholar at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University. He joined Stanford as an assistant professor in 2000 and became a full professor in 2008. His research is in the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Levin, PCAST Member (cropped)
Jonathan may refer to: *Jonathan (name), a masculine given name Media * ''Jonathan'' (1970 film), a German film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer * ''Jonathan'' (2016 film), a German film directed by Piotr J. Lewandowski * ''Jonathan'' (2018 film), an American film directed by Bill Oliver * ''Jonathan'' (Buffy comic), a 2001 comic book based on the ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' television series *Jonathan (TV show), a Welsh-language television show hosted by ex-rugby player Jonathan Davies People and biblical figures Bible * Jonathan (1 Samuel), son of King Saul of Israel and friend of David, in the Books of Samuel * Jonathan (Judges), in the Book of Judges * Jonathan (son of Abiathar), in 2 Samuel and 1 Kings Judaism *Jonathan Apphus, fifth son of Mattathias and leader of the Hasmonean dynasty of Judea from 161 to 143 BCE * Rabbi Jonathan, 2nd century * Jonathan (High Priest), a High Priest of Israel in the 1st century Footballers * Jonathan (footballer, born 1991) * Jonat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Saller
Richard Paul Saller (born October 18, 1952) is an American classicist. He is the former provost of the University of Chicago and the former dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He served as president of Stanford for eleven months from September 2023 to July 2024. On July 19, 2023, Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced he would resign. Stanford University's board of trustees appointed Saller to serve as an interim president beginning on September 1. Early life and education Saller was born in 1952. He earned two Bachelor of Arts in history and ancient Greek at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1974 and his Ph.D. from Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1978. Career University of Chicago From 1979 to 1984 Saller was assistant professor at Swarthmore College. In 1984, Saller began teaching Roman social and economic history at the University of Chicago. He became a dean in 1994 and the university's provost in 2002. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Marc Trevor Tessier-Lavigne (born December 18, 1959) is a Canadian-American neuroscientist. He served as the 11th president of Stanford University from 2016 to 2023 and the 10th president of Rockefeller University in New York City from 2011 to 2016. He was a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. He was formerly executive vice president for research and chief scientific officer at Genentech. Since 2021, he has been on the boards of directors of Denali Therapeutics and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, as well as the scientific advisory boards of Denali Therapeutics and Agios Pharmaceuticals. In 2022, the Stanford board of trustees opened an investigation into allegations that Tessier-Lavigne might have been involved in fabricating results in articles published between 2001 and 2008, when he was working at Genentech. In July 2023, the trustees' report was released, finding that in several papers he co-authored "there was apparent manipulation of research data by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Tessier-Lavigne At Rally For Medical Research
Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system serving Maryland, Washington, D.C., and eastern West Virginia * MARC (archive), a computer-related mailing list archive * M/A/R/C Research, a marketing research and consulting firm * Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition, a non-profit, volunteer organization * Matador Automatic Radar Control, a guidance system for the Martin MGM-1 Matador cruise missile * Mid-America Regional Council, the Council of Governments and the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the bistate Kansas City region * Midwest Association for Race Cars, a former American stock car racing organization * Revolutionary Agrarian Movement of the Bolivian Peasantry (''Movimiento Agrario Revolucionario del Campesinado Boliviano''), a defunct right-wing political moveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Etchemendy
John W. Etchemendy (born 1952) is an American logician and philosopher who served as Stanford University's twelfth Provost (education), Provost. He succeeded John L. Hennessy to the post on September 1, 2000 and stepped down on January 31, 2017. Education and career John Etchemendy received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Nevada, Reno, before earning his PhD in philosophy at Stanford in 1982. He has been a faculty member in Stanford's Department of Philosophy since 1983, prior to which he was a faculty member in the Philosophy Department at Princeton University. He is also a faculty member of Stanford's Symbolic Systems Program and a senior researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford. At Stanford, Etchemendy served as director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information from 1990 to 1993, senior associate dean in the School of Humanities and Sciences from 1993 to 1997, and chair of the Department of Philos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth governor of and then-incumbent United States senator representing California) and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr. The university admitted its first students in 1891, opening as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. It struggled financially after Leland died in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, university provost Frederick Terman inspired an entrepreneurial culture to build a self-sufficient local industry (later Silicon Valley). In 1951, Stanford Research Park was established in Palo Alto as the world's first university research park. By 2021, the university had 2,288 tenure-line faculty, senior fellows, center fellows, and medical f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John L
"John L" is a song by English rock band Black Midi, released in 2021 as the lead single from their second studio album, ''Cavalcade (Black Midi album), Cavalcade''. The song describes the story of a powerful leader, the titular John L, who is eventually betrayed and killed by his followers. It was released on March 23, with the B-side Despair and a music video directed by Nina McNeely. A 12-inch release for the single was made available for pre-order on the same day and released on April 9. The song is one of few on ''Cavalcade'' to have writing credits for guitarist Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, written before his departure from the band but recorded after. Composition and recording "John L" is an Avant-garde music, avant-garde progressive rock song described by ''Guitar World'' as "[featuring] dissonant piano chimes, weaving hypnotic vocals, a cacophony of string sounds, and an edge-of-the-seat dynamic range, spanning from complete silence to raucous, high-energy midsections." ''Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Casper
Gerhard Casper (born December 25, 1937) is a political scientist. He served as 9th president of Stanford University from 1992 to 2000, as the 8th dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1979 to 1987, and as provost of the University of Chicago from 1989 to 1992. He served as president of the American Academy in Berlin from July 2015 to July 2016 and as the institution's trustee-in-residence from August 2019 to January 2020. referring to Gerhard Casper's renewed tenure at the American Academy in Berlin Casper is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford, and served as the institute's director between September 2012 and June 2013. Casper is also the Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education, emeritus, and is a professor with emeritus status at Stanford Law School. Biography and academic career Born December 25, 1937, Gerhard Casper grew up in Hamburg, Germany. He earned his first law degree from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
