Stanford university
Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States. Stanford was founded in 1885 by former California governor and senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, as a memorial to their son Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid in Europe a few weeks before his 16th birthday. The Stanfords used their farm lands to establish the university hoping to create a large institution in California.
Stanford enrolls about 6,700 undergraduate and about 8,000 graduate students from the United States and around the world every year. Its graduates are famous all over the world. They have founded companies like Hewlett-Packard, Sun ' Microsystems, Nvidia, Yahoo, Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics and Google. Stanford University is a tax-exempt corporate trust owned and governed by I a privately-appointed 35-member Board of Trustees. Trustees serve for five year term mot more than two consecutive terms) and meet five times annually.
The Board appoints a President to serve as the chief executive officer of the university and proscribe the duties of professors and course of study, manage financial and business affairs, and appoint nine vice president posts.
The university is organized into seven schools: School of Humanities and Sciences, School of Engineering, School of Earth Sciences, School of Education, Graduate School of Business, Stanford Law School and the Stanford University School of Medicine. Stanford University is a large, highly residential research university with a majority of enrollments coming from graduate and professional students. The Stanford University Libraries hold a collection of more than eight million volumes. The main library in the SU library system is Green Library.
Stanford University is the home to the Cantor Center for Visual Arts museum with 24 galleries, sculpture gardens, terraces, and a courtyard first established in 1891 by Jane and Leland Stanford as a memorial to their only child. Notably, the Center possesses the largest collection of Rodin works outside of Paris, France.
Stanford is considered to be one of the best universities in the world. The Stanford Law School is ranked second in the nation while its Education School and Business School are both ranked first. Stanford School of Medicine is currently ranked eighth in research according to US Stanford's current community of scholars includes: 18 Nobel Prize laureates; 135 members of the National Academy of Sciences.
Способности. У Массачусетского технологического института есть 1 008 преподавателей, из которых 195 женщины, и 172 меньшинства. Способность ответственна за чтение лекций классам, советуя и выпускнику и студентам бакалавриата, и сидя на академических комитетах, так же как проводя оригинальное исследование. 25 преподавателей Массачусетского технологического института выиграли Нобелевскую премию. Среди текущих и бывших преподавателей есть 51 Национальная Медаль получателей Науки и техники, 80 Гуггенхайма Феллоуса, 6 Ученых Fulbright, 29 Макартура Феллоуса, 5 Медалистов Dirac, 5 Призеров Волка, и 4 победителя Приза Киото. Преподавателям, которые сделали экстраординарные вклады в их область исследования так же как сообщество Массачусетского технологического института, предоставляют назначения профессорами Института для остатка от их сроков пребывания.