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Stanford University Press ( SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University. It is one of the oldest academic presses in the United States and the first university press to be established on the West Coast. It is currently a member of the Association of University Presses. [ 2][ 3] The press publishes 130 books per year across the ...
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 ...
Margo Machida. Margo Machida is an American art historian, curator, cultural critic, and artist. Machida is a Professor of Art History and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Her book, Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary, (Duke University Press, 2009) was awarded ...
James Gardner March (January 15, 1928 – September 27, 2018) was an American political scientist, sociologist, and economist.A professor at Stanford University in the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Education, he is best known for his research on organizations, his (jointly with Richard Cyert) seminal work on A Behavioral Theory of the Firm, and the ...
The Hoover Institution Library and Archives is a research center and archival repository located at Stanford University, near Palo Alto, California in the United States.Built around a collection amassed by Stanford graduate Herbert Hoover prior to his becoming President of the United States, the Hoover Library and Archives is largely dedicated to the world history of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Chavez is currently a Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Irvine, [2] where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on immigration, international migration, culture and visual images, and medical anthropology. Chavez's research interests include international migration; household and family organization, composition ...
The Haas Center for Public Service, formerly the Stanford Public Service Center, is the public service center on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California . The Haas Center houses many student organizations and projects, including the Stanford Volunteer Network, Stanford in Government and the Ravenswood-Stanford Tutoring Program.
Ernest O. Lawrence (M.A. Physics 1923), 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics; Walter Brattain (PhD Physics 1929), 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics; Melvin Calvin (PhD Chemistry 1935), 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry