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1、Stanford University,英美概況,Contents,A. The brief introduction B. The history C. The meaningful buildings D. Notable alumni and honors E. The Stanford university and the Silicon Valley,The brief introduction,Full name : Leland Stanford Junior University Motto : Die Luft der Freiheit weht(German)
2、 (自由之風(fēng)勁吹 The wind of freedom blows) Founding time: 1885 Address : Stanford California The area : 8,180 acres(the second largest in USA) number of students: about7,000 undergraduate and 8,000 graduate students,The brief introduction,Badge: Founder: Leland Stanford Present headmaster:
3、 John Hennessy,Leland Stanford,John Hennessy,,The history,Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane stanford, as a memorial to their only son, Leland Stanford, who died of typhoid in Europe a few weeks before his 16th birthday. The Stanford used their farm lands to create
4、 the university, and hoped to establish a major research university in the West.,The history,The universitys founding Grant of Endowment from the Stanford came in November 1885. After six years of planning and building, the university officially opened on October 1, 1891, which recruited 559 studen
5、ts and 15 faculty members. The universitys first president was David Starr Jordan.,David Starr Jordan,The history,Development of Stanford University,,,The history,structure of stanford,Graduate School of Business,School of Medicine BiochemistryDevelopmental BiologyGeneticsMicrobiology and Immunology
6、 Molecular and Cellular PhysiologyMolecular PharmacologyStructural Biology,School of Education Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education (Art, English, General Curriculum Studies, Math, Science, Social Sciences, Teacher Ed) Psychological Studies in Education (Childhood and Adolescent Development, Edu
7、cational Psychology) Social Sciences, Policy and Educational PracticeAdministration and Policy Analysis International Comparative Education Social Sciences in Education (Interdisciplinary) Stanford Teacher Education Program Cross-Area SpecializationsLearning, Design and Technology Symbolic Systems i
8、n Education Undergraduate Honors Program,School of Humanities and Sciences Anthropological Sciences German Studies Applied Physics HistoryArt and Art History LinguisticsAsian Languages Mathematics Biological Sciences MusicChemistryPhilosophyClassics PhysicsCommunication Political ScienceComparative
9、Literature PsychologyCultural and Social AnthropologyReligious StudiesDramaSlavic Languages and LiteraturesEconomicsSociologyEnglish Spanish and PortugueseFrench and Italian Statistics,School of Engineering Aeronautics and Astronautics Chemical Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Compute
10、r Science Electrical Engineering Management Science and Engineering Materials Science and Engineering Mechanical Engineering,School of Earth Sciences Geological and Environmental Sciences Geophysics Petroleum Engineering,School of Law,,The meaningful buildings,Most of buildings at Stanford were made
11、 of yellow bricks and red tiles. And they were designed in Spanish style which was very popular in 17th century.,The meaningful buildings,Hoover Tower is a 285 feet (87 m) Hoover Tower structure on the campus of Stanford University. The tower is part of the Hoover Institution, a research cente
12、r founded by then-future U.S. president Herbert Hoover. Herbert Clark Hoover(1874-1964),The meaningful buildings,Memorial Church is Memorial church located at the center of the campus . It was built during the American Renaissance by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband
13、Leland Stanford.,The meaningful buildings,Old Union was built in the beginning of the 20th century, from Hoovers proposal! Old Union,,Notable alumni and honors,,Honors belong to the Stanford,1 president of USA 25 Nobel Prize laureates; 137 members of the National Academy of Sc
14、iences; 95 members of National Academy of Engineering; 62 members of Institute of Medicine; 258 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 19 recipients of the National Medal of Science; 43 members of American Philosophical Society,56 fellows of the American Physics Society (since 1995);
15、4 Pulitzer Prize winners; 24 MacArthur Fellows; 7 Wolf Foundation Prize winners; 6 Koret Foundation Prize winners; 2 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award winners; 14 AAAI fellows; 3 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners.,Notable alumni and honors,The 17 Nobel Prize laureates now are workin
16、g at the Stanford.,Notable alumni and honors,Many famous companies, especially a lot of Internet companies, were founded by the stanford alumni.,Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page,Jerry Yang,Jen-Hsun Huang,Notable alumni and honors,There are many other companies founded by the Stanford alu
17、mni which are not pure Internet companies, such as Hewlett-Packard(HP), Cisco Systems , Sun Microsystems, and so on.,,Stanford and Silicon Valley,The Stanford university has a close relationship with the silicon valley. We can think that the Stanford is the incubator for Silicon Valley. Many student
18、s graduated from stanford go to work in companies in silicon valley every year. And those Students who dont graduate can get practicing opportunities from many companies. Meanwhile the Stanford university Industrial park is important to the silicon valley. The park was founded by Frederick Terman, regarded as the father of silicon valley. (Frederick Terman ),Stanford and Silicon Valley,(famous IT companies) (the location),,,Thank you!,
StanfordUniversity斯坦福大學(xué)(英美概況).ppt
