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Cameron Lee Brink [1] (born December 31, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball at Stanford. She attended Mountainside High School and Southridge High School, both in her hometown of Beaverton, Oregon, where she was a ...
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) 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]
By 1926, the Hoover War Library was the largest library in the world devoted to World War I, including 1.4 million items and too large to house in the Stanford University Library, so the university allocated $600,000 for the construction of the Hoover Tower, which was designed to be its permanent home independent of the Stanford Library system.
Andrew Austen Luck (born September 12, 1989) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Indianapolis Colts.One of the most highly touted amateur prospects ever during his college football career with the Stanford Cardinal, Luck won the Maxwell, Walter Camp, and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm awards as a senior.
Ted Hoff (Ph.D. 1962), inventor of microprocessor, winner of Kyoto Prize, winner of National Medal of Technology and Innovation. John Hopcroft (Ph.D. 1964 electrical engineering), Turing Award -winning computer scientist. Taylor Howard (B.S. electrical engineering), inventor of the home satellite dish.
A pro-Palestinian student group, seen protesting at Stanford this month, encouraged other students to walk out of the university's graduation ceremony on Sunday and instead attend a "People's ...
Career Early career: UCSF, Stanford and Genentech. Tessier-Lavigne started his career at the University of California, San Francisco, from 1991 to 2001. He was a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University from 2001 to 2003. Genentech hired him in 2003 as its senior vice president of Research Drug Discovery.
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.