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Kamala Harris's father, Donald J. Harris, [8] is a Stanford University professor of economics (emeritus) who arrived in the United States from Jamaica in 1961, for graduate study at UC Berkeley, and received a PhD in economics in 1966. [9] Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan met in 1962 and were married in 1963.
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 ...
Updated June 19, 2024 at 5:19 AM. Virginia Hislop has spent a lifetime trying to increase access to education, and now, at 105 years old, she appears to have completed her own schooling. On Sunday ...
Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is an American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. [ 1] In 1993, Ochoa became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. [ 2] Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the previous ...
Alex Portée and Samantha Kubota. June 19, 2024 at 2:23 AM. Eighty-three years after leaving her master’s program at Stanford University for love, 105-year-old Virginia “Ginger” Hislop ...
Donald Jasper Harris, OM (born August 23, 1938) is a Jamaican-American economist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics. [ 1] Harris was raised in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, attending the University College of the West Indies before earning a Bachelor's degree from the ...
Katie Ledecky [ 1] Website. https://mbl.stanford.edu/. Alia Joy Crum is an American psychologist who is the principal investigator of the Stanford Mind and Body Lab. Crum researches how mindsets affect human behaviour as well as physical and mental health outcomes. [ 2] She has received widespread media coverage for her work.
The Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics ( CCRMA ), founded by John Chowning, is a multi-discipline facility where composers and researchers work together using computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research tool. CCRMA's director is Chris Chafe.