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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 .
Eavan Aisling Boland [1] (/ iː ˈ v æ n ˈ æ ʃ l ɪ ŋ ˈ b oʊ l ə n d / ee-VAN ASH-ling BOH-lənd; [2] 24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996.
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. Harvard University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0674368101. Hobbs, Allyson. "Violence in the Gilded Ages, Then and Now." The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, vol. 19, no. 2, 2020, pp. 264–270. DOI. "Race and the Right to Vote in the United States." The New Yorker, June 2018 ...
Robert Morris Sapolsky (born April 6, 1957) is an American academic, neuroscientist, and primatologist. He is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor at Stanford University, and is a professor of biology, neurology, and neurosurgery.
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
[5] [6] [7] Stegner summered in Greensboro, Vermont. While living in Utah, he joined a Boy Scout troop at an LDS Church (although he himself was a Lutheran) and earned the rank of Eagle Scout. He received a B.A. at the University of Utah in 1930. While at the University of Utah he was initiated into Sigma Nu fraternity. He was inducted into the ...
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]
Prior to joining Stanford, she has been a professor at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Athey is the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal . [ 3 ] She served as the consulting chief economist for Microsoft for six years [ 4 ] and was a consulting researcher to Microsoft Research .