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  2. History of Stanford University - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Paul Kim (academic) - Wikipedia

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    Paul Kim (born 1970) [2] is currently a Korean-American Chief Technology Officer and Associate Dean at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and has held this position since 2001. [3] While at Stanford, in addition to teaching graduate level courses in the School of Education, he has been leading projects involving the design of learning ...

  4. Alia Crum - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Stanford University - Wikipedia

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    Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) [11] [12] is a private research university in Stanford, California. 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 . [ 2 ]

  6. Lera Boroditsky - Wikipedia

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    Scientific career. Doctoral advisor. Gordon H. Bower. Lera Boroditsky (born c.1976 [ 1]) is a cognitive scientist and professor in the fields of language and cognition. She is one of the main contributors to the theory of linguistic relativity. [ 2] She is a Searle Scholar, a McDonnell Scholar, recipient of a National Science Foundation Career ...

  7. Ben Barres - Wikipedia

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    Ben Barres. Benjamin Arthur Barres (September 13, 1954 – December 27, 2017) [ 2] was an American neurobiologist at Stanford University. [ 3] His research focused on the interaction between neurons and glial cells in the nervous system. Beginning in 2008, he was chair of the Neurobiology Department at Stanford University School of Medicine.

  8. List of Stanford University alumni - Wikipedia

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    Mark Lemley (A.B. 1988), professor at Stanford Law School, expert in patent law. David Lang (B.A.), professor of composition at the Yale School of Music. Lisa Lowe (A.B. 1977), professor of American Studies at Yale University. Jitendra Malik (Ph.D. 1985), computer science professor at UC Berkeley.

  9. Condoleezza Rice - Wikipedia

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    Rice was hired by Stanford University as an assistant professor of political science (1981–1987). She was promoted to associate professor in 1987, a post she held until 1993. She was a specialist on the Soviet Union and gave lectures on the subject for the Berkeley-Stanford joint program led by UC Berkeley professor George W. Breslauer in the ...