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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 ...
Murder of Arlis Perry: Stanford: 1974-10-12: Newlywed murdered inside Stanford Memorial Church, solved 40 years later with DNA evidence [171] 20: Murder of Betty Van Patter: San Francisco: 1974-12-13: Bookkeeper for Black Panther Party was beaten to death, unsolved, she had reportedly threatened to make public her discovery that the party ...
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.
Leland Stanford's widow made many enemies. But who poisoned her? Stanford historian Richard White investigates in the new book 'Who Killed Jane Stanford?'
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Harry Horse (2007), English author, illustrator, cartoonist and musician, stabbed himself 47 times in a murder-suicide [589] Silvio Horta (2020), American screenwriter and television producer, gunshot [590] Robert E. Howard (1936), American author known for his character Conan the Barbarian, gunshot to the head [591]
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.