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Jane Kathryn Willenbring (born August 2, 1977) is an American geomorphologist and professor at Stanford University. She is best known for using cosmogenic nuclides to investigate landscape changes and dynamics. [1] She has won multiple awards including the Antarctica Service Medal [2] and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. [3]
At first Jordan’s lies were the byproducts of bureaucratic infighting, but eventually — fearful that a murder or suicide judgment would jeopardize Jane Stanford’s bequest to the university ...
Leland Stanford's widow made many enemies. But who poisoned her? Stanford historian Richard White investigates in the new book 'Who Killed Jane Stanford?'
Willenbring describes the harassment she faced as a young scientist on a trip to Antarctica with an all male cohort, including being called sexist names, having her abilities diminished due to being a woman, and being physically harassed as a woman, most prominently by the trip leader, David Marchant. [11]
Harry Horse (2007), English author, illustrator, cartoonist and musician, stabbed himself 47 times in a murder-suicide [587] Silvio Horta (2020), American screenwriter and television producer, gunshot [588] Robert E. Howard (1936), American author known for his character Conan the Barbarian, gunshot to the head [589]
There was the death of her husband and the dispute over his estate that put the couple’s passion project, Stanford University, in a precarious financial position.
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford (August 25, 1828 – February 28, 1905) was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University in 1885 (opened 1891), along with her husband, Leland Stanford, in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid fever at age 15 in 1884.
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