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Stanford University has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics. These centers and institutes may be within a department, within a school but across departments, an independent laboratory, institute or center reporting directly to the dean of research and outside any school, or semi-independent of the university itself.
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research institution at Stanford University that incubates initiatives designed to address major questions about human behavior and society, and offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars studying social, behavioral, and policy issues.
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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 Cantor Arts Center's collection houses over 38,000 items, including African Art, American Art, Ancient Art, the Andy Warhol Photography Archive, Art of Asia and Oceania, Art of the Indigenous Americas, Auguste Rodin, Eadweard Muybridge, European Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, Photographs, Prints and Drawings, Richard Diebenkorn Sketchbooks, Sculptures on Campus, and collections and ...
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Its aim is to facilitate collaboration between medical, scientific, and engineering researchers from three Bay Area institutions: Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and UC San Francisco (UCSF). [13] It also supports research by its own scientists and engineers in its own facilities.
The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts was founded in 1998 by Lawrence Rinder. [2] It was originally named the CCAC Institute of Exhibitions and Public Programming, [2] and was renamed is 2002 following the death of Phyllis C. Wattis, a San Francisco cultural philanthropist [3] [4] and the great-granddaughter of Brigham Young.