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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]
Leland Stanford's widow made many enemies. But who poisoned her? Stanford historian Richard White investigates in the new book 'Who Killed Jane Stanford?'
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.
He taught courses on Jane’s murder at the university, drawing from the work of previous writers, notably Stanford surgeon Robert Cutler, who wrote a book undermining the university’s position ...
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.
Lizabeth Scott was slated for the female lead but quit three weeks prior to filming due to the arrest, and was replaced by Jane Greer (Mitchum and Greer had been earlier paired in the successful 1947 noir Out of the Past). Hughes had been keeping Greer, a former girlfriend, from appearing in any RKO films in an attempt to ruin her career, but ...
Around 11:30 p.m. the night of October 12, 1974, the Perrys had an argument about their car's tire pressure. Perry told her husband that she wanted to pray alone inside the Stanford Memorial Church, and they parted. [3] Bruce became concerned when his wife had not returned home by 3:00 a.m. and called the Stanford police to report her missing.
The prosecution in the Delphi, Indiana, double murder trial showed the jury more than 40 crime scene photos, some of them graphic, on the third day of the proceedings. The photos, which caused ...