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Stanford was founded by Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate, U.S. senator, and former California governor, together with his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford. It is named in honor of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died in 1884 from typhoid fever just before his 16th birthday. His parents decided to dedicate a university to their only son ...
Cantor Arts Center (officially Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, previously the Stanford University Museum of Art) is an art museum on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, United States. The museum first opened in 1894 and consists of over 130,000 sq ft (12,000 m 2) of exhibition ...
The Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences is the heart of the undergraduate program and grants the majority of Stanford University 's degrees. The School has 27 departments and 20 interdisciplinary degree-granting programs. The School was officially created in 1948, from the merger of the Schools of Biological Sciences ...
Frost Amphitheater. Coordinates: 37°25′50″N 122°9′57″W. Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at the Amphitheater in 1976. The Laurence Frost Amphitheater, commonly known as Frost Amphitheater, is a prominent amphitheater at Stanford University. It first opened in 1937 and was the site of commencement ceremonies for the ...
The Stanford University Graduate School of Education grew out of the Department of the History and Art of Education, one of the original twenty-one departments at Stanford, and became a professional graduate school in 1917. [59] The Stanford Graduate School of Business was founded in 1925 at the urging of then-trustee Herbert Hoover. [60]
Lorenz Eitner. Lorenz Edwin Alfred Eitner (27 August 1919 – 11 March 2009) was an art historian and museum director of the Stanford University Museum of Art. He served in the Office of Strategic Services, and, after World War II ended, provided materials for the Ministries Trial and the Judges' Trial. His research interest focused on the work ...
Wanda M. Corn. Wanda M. Corn is an American art and cultural historian. Corn is a scholar of art and photography from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries movements. She is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor emerita of art history at Stanford University. She held the professorship for eight years before retiring from the university in March ...
Avner Greif, economist. Caroline Hoxby, professor of economics. Ro Khanna, visiting lecturer of economics (2012–2016), deputy assistant secretary in the United States Department of Commerce (2009–2011), U.S. Congressman (2017–present) Jonathan Levin, professor of economics, won the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal.