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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
Laura L. Carstensen is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy and professor of psychology at Stanford University, where she is founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity [1] and the principal investigator for the Stanford Life-span Development Laboratory. [2]
Oyekunle Ayinde "Kunle" Olukotun is a British-born Nigerian [1] computer scientist who is the Cadence Design Systems Professor of the Stanford School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab. [2] Olukotun is known as the “father of the multi-core processor”, and the leader of ...
Bracewell was born in Sydney, in 1921, and educated at Sydney Boys High School.He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1941 with the BSc degree in mathematics and physics, later receiving the degrees of B.E. (1943), and M.E. (1948) with first class honours, and while working in the Engineering Department became the President of the Oxometrical society.
Carson was a professor at Stanford University for more than 40 years, where he primarily taught U.S. History and African American History. [4] [5] He teaches and lectures about Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panther Party, and other subjects related to the black struggle and civil rights.
Marcus William Feldman (born 14 November 1942) is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Biological Sciences, director of the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, and co-director of the Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG) at Stanford University. [4]
At Stanford University, she holds the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professorship in the School of Humanities and Sciences. [4] Bertozzi is also an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) [5] and is the former director of the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience research center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [6]