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Matthew P. Scott, professor of developmental biology, discoverer of homeobox genes; Oscar Elton Sette, lecturer and Chief of Ocean Research, pioneer of fisheries oceanography and modern fisheries science; Norman Shumway, professor at Stanford Medical School, father of the heart transplantation technique
Stanford's Human Biology Program [1] is an undergraduate major; it integrates the natural and social sciences in the study of human beings. It is interdisciplinary and policy-oriented and was founded in 1970 by a group of Stanford faculty (Professors Dornbusch, Ehrlich, Hamburg, Hastorf, Kennedy, Kretchmer, Lederberg, and Pittendrigh). [2]
Stanford University has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics. These centers and institutes may be within a department, within a school but across departments, an independent laboratory, institute or center reporting directly to the dean of research and outside any school, or semi-independent of the university itself.
Developmental psychobiology is an interdisciplinary field, encompassing developmental psychology, biological psychology, neuroscience and many other areas of biology. The field covers all phases of ontogeny , with particular emphasis on prenatal, perinatal and early childhood development.
In 1989, Shapiro became a professor and the founding chair of the department of developmental biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California. [8] She was the Joseph D. Grant Professor in the school of medicine from 1989–1998, [17] before becoming the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research in 1998. [17]
It became Stanford's medical institution, initially called the Stanford Medical Department and later the Stanford University School of Medicine. [5] In the 1950s, the Stanford Board of Trustees decided to move the school to the Stanford main campus near Palo Alto. The move was completed in 1959. [6]
The Society for Developmental Biology's mission is to employ, "... an inclusive philosophy to further the study of developmental biology and related disciplines; to foster, support, and provide a forum for all investigators in these fields; to educate non-specialists, educators, the general public, and policymakers about developmental biology and related disciplines; and to promote fair ...
As well as her position as a psychology professor, Fernald has taken an administrative role at Stanford as vice provost for faculty development. [4] She also serves on the advisory board for a California-based company VersaMe which focuses on early childhood education and was partially inspired by Fernald's research. [ 5 ]