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Scholars receive funding support to pursue any graduate degree at Stanford. Knight-Hennessy Scholars was founded in 2016 with a $400 million pledge from Phil Knight, the co-founder of Nike and a Stanford alum. [1] Knight’s donation, which was one of the largest ever made to an American university at the time, was combined with $350 million in ...
John L. Hennessy. John Leroy Hennessy (born September 22, 1952) is an American computer scientist who is chairman of Alphabet Inc. (Google). [8] Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros, and also the tenth President of Stanford University. Hennessy announced that he would step down in the summer of 2016.
Significant contributions during this period included a $100 million donation from Nike co-founder and Stanford alumni Phil Knight in 2011 to establish the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program. [32] The university became the first school to raise more than a billion dollars in a year after raising $1.035 billion in 2012. [33] In 2013, Dorothy and ...
The J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library was a library at Stanford University in California. It was dedicated on December 2, 1966. In 2007, a seismic assessment identified $45 million in required retrofits, more than the cost of a new library elsewhere on campus. Consequently, the library was designated for closure and a new design was accepted ...
Aya Mouallem (Arabic: آية المعلّم: born on January 17, 1998) is a Lebanese electrical engineer, gender equality activist, and a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University. She is the co-founder, co-director, and current board advisory member of All Girls Code, [2] a volunteer-led initiative to provide Lebanese female youth with ...
The Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering, also known as EE; Double E, is a department at Stanford University. Established in 1894, [ 7 ] it is one of nine engineering departments that comprise the school of engineering, [ 8 ] and in 1971, had the largest graduate enrollment of any department at Stanford University. [ 9 ]
The program coordinates and promotes the course offerings and graduate work leading to a Ph.D. in various academic departments in the School of Humanities and Sciences. It also organizes a rich variety of academic conferences, workshops, and public education events that complements the university's inter-departmental offerings in Islamic Studies.
library.stanford.edu. The Cecil H. Green Library (commonly known as Green Library) is the main library on the Stanford University campus and is part of the SUL system. It is named for Cecil H. Green. Green Library houses 4 million volumes, most of which are related to the humanities and social sciences. Libraries elsewhere on campus cover ...