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Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) [11] [12] is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States.It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford, the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California, and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr.
Eliot replied that they should found a university and an endowment of $5 million would suffice (in 1884 dollars; about $170 million today [3]). [4] [5] Leland Stanford, the university's co-founder, as painted by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in 1881 and now on display at the Cantor Center
Hoover Tower is a 285-foot (87 m) structure on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, United States. The tower houses the Hoover Institution Library and Archives , an archive collection founded by Herbert Hoover before he became president of the United States .
He is the former provost of the University of Chicago and the former dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He served as president of Stanford for eleven months from September 2023 to July 2024. On July 19, 2023, Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced he would resign. Stanford University's ...
TIL Stanford University rejected 69% of the applicants with a perfect SAT score between 2008-2013. Image credits: tyrion2024 #27. TIL of Kyle Plush, a 16 year-old teen who died a slow death while ...
The church's chaplains were instrumental in the founding of Stanford's religious studies department, moving Stanford from a "secular university" [5] at the middle of the century to "the renaissance of faith and learning at Stanford" [6] in the late 1960s, when the study of religion at the university focused on social and ethical issues like ...
Dr. Andrea Henkel of Stanford University, tells Yahoo Life that medication abortion is “routinely offered as an outpatient — at home — [procedure] through 10 weeks of pregnancy, though there ...
The Stanford Cardinal are the athletic teams that represent Stanford University.Stanford's program has won 136 NCAA team championships, the most of any university. Stanford has won at least one NCAA team championship each academic year for 48 consecutive years, starting in 1976–77 and continuing through 2023–24.