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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]
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]
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 ...
Leland Stanford's widow made many enemies. But who poisoned her? Stanford historian Richard White investigates in the new book 'Who Killed Jane Stanford?'
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 Stanford was a monstrous mess. The wife of railroad baron Leland Stanford, Jane was rich, duplicitous and convinced that God was whispering in her ear. Of friends and family, she demanded ...
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.
In that film Jane Willenbring, a female scientist and associate professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, shared how she was harassed by her mentor David R. Marchant during her fieldwork. She was called many demeaning names, harassed when using the bathroom, and even had shards of volcanic sand blown into her eyes.