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14 unusual facts about Stanford University


Bush on the Couch

Bush on the Couch has received endorsements from such distinguished professors of psychiatry as Irvin Yalom of Stanford University and James Grotstein (UCLA), who calls it a "remarkable – and frightening – piece of careful scholarship."

Charles A. Ferguson

Charles Albert Ferguson (July 6, 1921 – September 2, 1998) was a U.S. linguist who taught at Stanford University.

Christopher Lovelock

Christopher Lovelock attained a PhD from Stanford University, publishing his thesis on the topic of “Marketing Public Transportation”.

Lovelock embarked on his academic career serving, most significantly, on the faculty of the Harvard Business School (USA) for 11 years in addition to other academic appointments at distinguished institutions to include University of California Berkley (USA), Stanford University (USA) and the MIT Sloan School of Management (USA).

David Hewes

Hewes' art collection of pictures, statues and frescos was presented to the Leland Stanford Jr. University.

Electoralism

Electoralism is a term first used by Terry Karl, professor of political science at Stanford University, to describe a "half-way" transition from authoritarian rule toward democratic rule.

Gov. Stanford

The locomotive was retired from regular service on July 20, 1895, then donated to Stanford University; however, it was not delivered to the university until 1899.

Harris J. Ryan

Harris J. Ryan (January 8, 1866 - July 3, 1934) was an American electrical engineer and a professor first at Cornell University and later at Stanford University.

Herbert John Shaw

Herbert John Shaw (June 2, 1918 – January 19, 2006) was a professor at Stanford University, and a major inventor in the fields of fiber optic gyroscopes, optical communications, and surface acoustic wave devices.

Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang

He did so in his Lane Medical Lectures, which were delivered at Stanford University in 1951 on October 2, 4, 8, 10 and 12, and later published by Stanford University Press.

Littlehead porgy

The Littlehead porgy was described in 1884 by the ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert, who were both professors (Jordan later became president) of Stanford University.

Nutt Bluff

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) at the suggestion of Arthur B. Ford, leader of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) geological party in the Dufek Massif, 1976–77, after Constance J. Nutt, geologist, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, a member of the USGS party.

Tyler MacNiven

MacNiven first received attention in 1998 when, while a senior at Woodside High School in Woodside, California, he launched a political-style campaign to supplement his application to Stanford University, where he had wanted to go since the seventh grade.

William Skinner Cooper

Cooper served briefly in 1914-1915 as a lecturer in plant ecology at Stanford University before beginning his long career in the botany department at the University of Minnesota, where he taught from 1915 to 1951.


Albert J.R. Heck

After a Postdoctoral research at Stanford University in the lab of Richard Zare and Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore) he became a postdoctoral fellow and later lecturer at University of Warwick.

Allah Verdi Mirza Farman Farmaian

He studied at Reed College undergraduate and obtained a Doctorate in Biology at Stanford University.

Andrew Moravcsik

Moravcsik received a BA in history from Stanford University in 1980 and, after a period working in the US and Asia, spent the next year and a half as a Fulbright Fellow at the Universities of Bielefeld, Hamburg, and Marburg in West Germany.

Apprenticeship learning

Apprenticeship learning, or apprenticeship via inverse reinforcement learning (AIRP), is a concept in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, developed by Pieter Abbeel, Assistant Professor in Berkeley's EECS department, and Andrew Ng, Associate Professor in Stanford University's Computer Science Department.

Barbara Gibbs Golffing

Gibbs was born in Los Angeles, California, and attended Stanford University and U.C.L.A. She was married to the poet J. V. Cunningham from 1937 to 1945, and, later, to Francis Golffing.

Benny Castillo

While Castillo was a junior in 1987, OSU reached the championship game in the College World Series against Stanford University, losing 9 to 5 to future MLB pitcher Jack McDowell.

Brad Stephan Gregory

Prior to taking his position at Notre Dame, he was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.

CALO

The available technologies were developed by research teams at SRI International, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Rochester, the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Oregon State University, the University of Southern California, and Stanford University.

Carole Terry

Carole Terry received her musical training at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas (organ with Robert T. Anderson, harpsichord with Larry Palmer), Eastman School of Music (organ with David Craighead), and Stanford University, where she obtained in 1977 a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in early music performance practice.

College Now Greater Cleveland

A few individuals in the Top 50 Program (as of the 2011-2012 school year) have been accepted to such universities as Harvard and Stanford, showing the success of the program.

Dacher Keltner

Professor Keltner received his B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and he completed three years of post-doctoral work with Paul Ekman at the University of California, San Francisco.

Electronic Life

The computer crime entry, for example, is three pages long and contains only four hard facts—specifically, that institutions were then losing $5 billion to $30 billion a year on computer crime, that Citibank processed $30 billion a day in customer transactions using computers, that American banks as a whole were moving $400 billion a year in the U.S., and that the Stanford public key code (not otherwise described) had been broken in 1982.

Gerhard Stäbler

He has resided extensively abroad, including Stanford University in the 1980s and Yonsei University in Seoul in 1988 and has visited Israel and Lebanon repeatedly, writing a chamber cantata Den Toten von Sabra und Chatila to poems by the Palestinian poet Tawfiq Ziad (1982).

Hazel Carby

Carby has lectured at numerous colleges and universities worldwide including Columbia University, Stanford University, the University of Paris, and University of Toronto.

Henrietta H. Fore

She has also studied international politics at Oxford University and studied at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

IDEO

IDEO was formed in 1991 by a merger of four established design firms: David Kelley Design (founded by Stanford University professor David Kelley), London-based Moggridge Associates and San Francisco's ID Two (both founded by British-born Bill Moggridge), and Matrix Product Design (founded by Mike Nuttall).

Industrial robot

In 1969 Victor Scheinman at Stanford University invented the Stanford arm, an all-electric, 6-axis articulated robot designed to permit an arm solution.

J.T. Wamelink

Wamelink composed many pieces of music, a number of which are found in the collections of: The Library of Congress, The Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, Stanford University, the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Washington State University, and the Penn Libraries, among others.

James Pinkerton

A graduate of Peter Vanleslie High School and Stanford University (1980), he served on the White House staff under both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and on each of their presidential campaigns and in January 2008 became a senior adviser to the Mike Huckabee 2008 presidential campaign.

Jerre Noe

Stationed in Europe during World War II, he conducted research and development related to radar, before returning to California to complete a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University.

John A. Young

He received his BS degree in electrical engineering in 1953 from Oregon State University, later receiving an MBA degree from Stanford University.

John Duryea

Then assigned in 1950, as Catholic chaplain, first at San José State University and in 1961, Stanford University, where he became immensely popular and influential as the pastor of St. Ann's Chapel, Palo Alto.

John G. McKnight

He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1952, and worked for Ampex Corp from 1952 thru 1972, except for the years 1953..

Jonathan Elkus

The son of Albert Elkus, he studied composition at University of California, Berkeley (BA 1953) with Charles Cushing and William Denny, at Stanford University (MA 1957) with Ernst Bacon and Leonard Ratner, and at Mills College (1957) with Darius Milhaud.

Jussi V. Koivisto

Internationally Jussi V. Koivisto has held Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar assignments at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, U.S.), Tokyo University of International Studies (Japan), University of Klagenfurt (Austria), Canada China Institute, University of Alberta, and Korea Institute of Industrial Policy Studies (Korea).

Kelley O'Hara

Prior to graduating from Stanford, O'Hara played for the Pali Blues of the USL W-League (semi-pro) in the summer of 2009, scoring four goals during her tenure with the club.

Lycée Rochambeau

As of the 2012-2013 school year, students have gone on to attend McGill University, the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Sciences Po Paris, Stanford University, USC, University of Michigan, University College London, various faculties at the University of Paris and elsewhere.

Malcolm Cowley

Cowley taught the Stegner Fellowship graduate class at Stanford University in the fall of 1960; among his students were such future luminaries as Ken Kesey, Peter S. Beagle, and Larry McMurtry.

Michael Doudoroff

He entered Stanford University (1929) where he completed his PhD under the supervision of Cornelius Van Niel at the Hopkins Marine Station.

Nathan Cummings Foundation

His endowment created the Nathan Cummings Arts Center at Stanford University and the Joanne and Nathan Cummings Art Center at Connecticut College in New London.

Ogonna Nnamani

She has a younger sister, Nji, who played volleyball alongside her at Stanford University and is currently engaged to professional track athlete Russell Wolf Brown.

Panofsky Prize

It was established in 1985 by friends of Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, a professor emeritus at Stanford University and by the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society.

Pentti Kanerva

Kanerva has an A.A. from Warren Wilson College, M.S. in forestry, with a minor in mathematics and statistics from the University of Helsinki, and has a Ph.D. in Philosophy, from Stanford University.

Protoceratops

Folklorist and historian of science Adrienne Mayor of Stanford University has suggested that the exquisitely preserved fossil skeletons of Protoceratops and other beaked dinosaurs, found by ancient Scythian nomads who mined gold in the Tian Shan and Altai Mountains of Central Asia, may have been at the root of the image of the mythical creature known as the griffin.

Ramachandra Guha

Between 1985 and 2000, he taught at various universities in India, Europe and North America, including the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Stanford University and at Oslo University (Arne Naess chair, 2008), and later at the Indian Institute of Science.

Richard Waldinger

In collaboration with Zohar Manna, of Stanford University, Waldinger developed nonclausal resolution, a form of resolution that did not require the translation of logical sentences into a restricted clausal form.

St. Lawrence Quartet

It was founded in 1989 and has served residencies at the Juilliard School, Yale University, the University of Toronto, the Hartt School, and Stanford University.

Sun-1

Andreas Bechtolsheim, Forest Baskett, and Vaughan Pratt, ftp://reports.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/csl/tr/82/229/CSL-TR-82-229.pdf The SUN Workstation Architecture, Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory Technical Report No. 229, March 1982.

Tami Gaines

Both Duke University and Stanford University did studies and agreed with this report, that though post-traumatic stress syndrome is usually associated with catastrophic events such as war, parents of prematurely born babies who suffer or who die can suffer PTSS as well.

Thomas Grogan

Dr. Grogan received a B.A. in biology from the University of Virginia, and then continued his education at George Washington University Medical School where he earned his M.D. He later completed a post-doctorate, hematopathology fellowship at Stanford University.

Thomas Kilduff

Kilduff obtained a B.S. from the University of Florida and earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in biological sciences from Stanford University, where he was also awarded fellowships from the Danforth Foundation, the Grass Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.

Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

The Siebel Center houses the Department of Computer Science, which currently shares the distinction of being one of the top five Computer Science departments in the nation with Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

University of Guyana

Drayton returned to British Guiana in December 1962, and it was on his advice that Jagan wrote to socialist scholars in the United Kingdom and United States, including Joan Robinson at the University of Cambridge, Paul Baran at Stanford University, and Lancelot Hogben at Birmingham to involve them in the recruitment of staff.

William A. Wilson

Wilson met his wife, Elizabeth "Betty" Johnson, at Stanford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1936 and a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1937 before marrying in 1938.

William Hurwitz

He then spent a period at the Harvard University School of Education before attending Stanford University's Medical School.