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In 2020, Stanford received a historic $1.1 billion gift from Silicon Valley investor John Doerr and his wife, Ann, to establish the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. [40] This gift was among the largest ever made to a university. It underscored Stanford's leading role in addressing global sustainability challenges. [41]
SRI International (SRI) is a nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.It was established in 1946 by trustees of Stanford University to serve as a center of innovation to support economic development in the region.
The Natural Capital Project (NatCap) is a partnership among 250 groups around the world that has developed a systematic approach to weighing nature’s benefits. By placing a value on nature in the context of resource allocation, NatCap is influencing policy, finance and management decisions worldwide.
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 additional gifts from other Stanford alumni. [2]
Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su was born in November [15] of 1969 [7] [2] in Tainan, Taiwan.She was born in a Taiwanese Hokkien speaking family. [16] She immigrated to the United States [2] at the age of 3 with her parents Su Chun-hwai (蘇春槐) and Sandy Lo (羅淑雅).
Stanford Research Institute, formerly part of Stanford but on a separate campus, was the site of one of the four original ARPANET nodes. Later ARPANET nodes were located in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Computer Science Department, and the Stanford University Medical Center.
The Stanford University Libraries (SUL), formerly known as "Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources" ("SULAIR"), is the library system of Stanford University in California. It encompasses more than 24 libraries in all. Several academic departments and some residences also have their own libraries.
Stanford Knight Management Center, seen from Serra Street. The Knight Management Center is situated within the greater Stanford campus.There are ten buildings at the Knight Management Center: the Gunn Building, Zambrano Hall, North Building, Arbuckle Dining Pavilion, Bass Center, the Faculty Buildings (comprising East and West buildings), the Patterson Building, the MBA Class of 1968 Building ...