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One of Stanford's Marguerite buses (BYD electric bus)Marguerite is the free shuttle service Stanford University offers to its students, faculty, staff, and the general public to get around campus or from campus to some off-campus locations such as the San Antonio Shopping Center, VA Palo Alto Hospital, Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), Stanford Shopping Center, or the Palo Alto Transit Center.
The original residence for Stanford women was a different building, also named Roble Hall. It was built in haste in 1891 to house the 80 women of the first Stanford undergraduate class. [ 3 ] Designed by concrete pioneer Ernest L. Ransome , it survived the 1906 earthquake but was replaced as the women's dormitory by the current Roble Hall in 1918.
Florence Moore Hall, commonly referred to as FloMo, is an undergraduate dormitory at Stanford University. [1] Designed by Milton Pflueger [ note 1 ] in 1956, Florence Moore Hall was initially a women's dormitory.
Stanford Knight Management Center, seen from Serra Street. The Knight Management Center is situated within the greater Stanford campus.There are ten buildings at the Knight Management Center: the Gunn Building, Zambrano Hall, North Building, Arbuckle Dining Pavilion, Bass Center, the Faculty Buildings (comprising East and West buildings), the Patterson Building, the MBA Class of 1968 Building ...
In the late 1980s, Stanford University began planning a $120 million Science and Engineering Quad (SEQ) Project, scheduled to be completed by 1999. Part of this project included the construction of a new building for Statistics. On August 22, 1996, the original Sequoia Hall was demolished to make way for the new facility.
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) [11] [12] is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. 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 .
By the 1990s, Stanford's endowment had grown to be one of the largest in the world, thanks in large part to the success of its investments in Silicon Valley companies. In response to the growing complexity of investment markets and the need for specialized asset management, the university founded the Stanford Management Company in 1991. [3]
In 1984, the original Public Service Center was established by Stanford University President Donald Kennedy.The original Center was located in Owen House. [3]In 1989, the Public Service Center was renamed the Haas Center for Public Service after $5 million contribution by the Haas family to the center's endowment. [3]