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Stanford AB 1901 2 Samuel B. Morris [42] 1936–1944 Civil Engineering: Stanford AB 1911 3 Frederick E. Terman: 1944–1958 Electrical Engineering: 4 Joseph M. Pettit: 1958–1972 Electrical Engineering: Stanford Ph.D. 1942 5 William M. Kays [43] 1972–1984 Mechanical Engineering: Stanford Ph.D. 1951 6 James F. Gibbons [44] 1984–1996 ...
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) [11] [12] 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 senator from California , and his wife, Jane , in memory of their only child, Leland Jr .
Stanford Federal Credit Union was created by a group of Stanford University employees on December 17, 1959. Its original field of membership was limited to employees of the university. The credit union opened in 1960 with $261 in deposits and established its first office in Encina Hall on Stanford University’s campus.
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[9] [10] In addition, according to a Stanford alumni survey conducted in 2011, some 39,900 companies founded by Stanford alumni were active, and companies founded by Stanford alumni altogether generated more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and had created 5.4 million jobs, roughly equivalent to the 10th-largest economy in the world (2011).
While this is a federal holiday, only federal employees in the Washington, DC area are entitled to a day off. Only Washington, DC observes this day besides the federal government. [10] February 15–21 (3rd Monday) Washington's Birthday: 52% [11] 34–35%: Washington's Birthday was first declared a federal holiday by an 1879 act of Congress.
(Ph.D.), roboticist and professor emeritus at Stanford's Computer Science Department and Stanford School of Medicine's Department of Surgery [10] Mavis Sanders (A.M. 1992, Ph.D. 1995), research scholar [11] Gita Sen (Ph.D.), feminist economist, adjunct professor at Harvard University, and professor emeritus at Indian Institute of Management ...