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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.
Stanford is a census-designated place (CDP) in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is the home of Stanford University , after which it was named. The CDP's population was 21,150 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ]
[9] [10] In addition, according to a Stanford alumni survey conducted in 2011, some 39,900 companies founded by Stanford alumni were active, and companies founded by Stanford alumni altogether generated more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and had created 5.4 million jobs, roughly equivalent to the 10th-largest economy in the world (2011).
Stanford AB 1901 2 Samuel B. Morris [42] 1936–1944 Civil Engineering: Stanford AB 1911 3 Frederick E. Terman: 1944–1958 Electrical Engineering: 4 Joseph M. Pettit: 1958–1972 Electrical Engineering: Stanford Ph.D. 1942 5 William M. Kays [43] 1972–1984 Mechanical Engineering: Stanford Ph.D. 1951 6 James F. Gibbons [44] 1984–1996 ...
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen (born 1969/1970) is an American [2] educator [3] and author. [4]She is the founder and president of the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation, a private operating foundation that describes itself as a philanthropic "innovation lab", [5] and founded the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2), a venture philanthropy fund. [6]
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.
Established in 2016, the program was founded with the aim of preparing students to address complex global issues. Scholars receive funding support to pursue any graduate degree at Stanford. Knight-Hennessy Scholars was founded in 2016 with a $400 million pledge from Phil Knight, the co-founder of Nike and a Stanford alum. [1]
Rao was born in India. Rao graduated from the Andhra University in 1978 and earned Post-Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur in 1980. He then earned a PhD in 1989 from Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.