* Balancing Economy, Equity, and Ecology Through Design-a speech given on Oct. 15, 2008 for Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner, with both audio & video

Leland Stanford's official gubernatorial portrait

* Beyond Capitalism: Leland Stanford's Forgotten Vision, by Lee Altenberg, < I > Sandstone and Tile </ I >, 1990, Stanford Historical Society

* Penny Postcards: Leland Stanford's store: Michigan Bluff, California

In 1954, excavators broke ground on what was once Leland Stanford's vineyards.

Ross investigated the problems of immigrant workers, including the Chinese who worked for Southern Pacific, the railroad run by Stanford's founder Leland Stanford.

After Leland Stanford's death in 1893, legal disputes tied up the Stanford estate and prevented the completion of the university for several years.

* June 22 – Robert S. Lovett succeeds Leland Stanford as the president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad, after Stanford's death.

Stanford has won 103 NCAA championships ( the second-most for a university ), and Stanford's athletic program has won the NACDA Directors ' Cup every year since 1995.

Stanford alumnus George E. Crothers became a close adviser to Jane Stanford following his graduation from Stanford's law school in 1896.

The Hoover Institution Library and Archives ( official name: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace ) at Stanford was set up in 1920 by Herbert C. Hoover, one of Stanford's first graduates.

Stanford's reputation, competitive admissions, and strong legacy of entrepreneurship have contributed to the East-West rivalry between Stanford and such institutions as Harvard University, Princeton University and Yale University.

Stanford's main campus is a census-designated place within unincorporated Santa Clara County, although some of the university land ( including the Stanford Shopping Center and the Stanford Research Park ) is within the city limits of Palo Alto.

* Edward Stanford, founder of map and book publisher Stanford's

Weaver attended Sarah Lawrence College as well as Stanford University where she first began her involvement in acting, by living in Stanford's co-ed Beta Chi Community for the Performing Arts.

In February 2007, Jerry Yang and his wife gave US $ 75 million to Stanford University, their alma mater, the bulk of which went to building the " Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building ", a multi-disciplinary research, teaching and lab building, the first to be realized on Stanford's new Science and Engineering Quad.

" Later in the 1980s and up to 1993, before returning to the Pentagon as deputy secretary of defense, he held positions as chairman of Technology Strategies Alliances, professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, and a co-director of the Preventive Defense Project at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation.

* Jane Stanford -- Jane Stanford's 1898 Time Capsule

Paul Ralph Ehrlich ( born May 29, 1932 ) is an American biologist and educator who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology.

A graduate of the University of Oregon and Stanford Graduate School of Business, he has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the schools ; Knight gave the largest donation in history at the time to Stanford's business school in 2006.

* Dr. Cristina Yang, a character on the popular medical television drama Grey's Anatomy is a Stanford alumna and ' graduated first in her class ', despite Stanford's medical school not actually having grades or rankings

The integration of the Stanford Alumni Association into the university in 1998 enhanced outreach to Stanford's alumni worldwide.

Donations to Stanford, especially from alumni, increased sharply under Casper's leadership, with particular emphasis on fortifying Stanford's endowment and increasing participation through the creation of the Stanford Fund for Undergraduate Education.

* During a temporary housing crisis, the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper referred to a fictional solution to the resulting housing crisis at Stanford University as " Hooverville " due to its proximity to Stanford's Hoover Tower.

She ended her Stanford career with a 2010 NCAA title on the uneven bars with a score of 9. 9375, only the second NCAA individual title in Stanford's history.

* Edwin Kiester, Jr., Donald Tresidder: Stanford's Overlooked Treasure ( Stanford Historical Society, 1992 )

The Mungers also gave a major gift to Stanford's Green Library to fund the restoration of the Bing Wing as well as the construction of a rotunda on the library's second floor, and endowed the Munger Chair in Nancy and Charles Munger Professorship of Business at Stanford Law School.

Then, from the late 1960s onward, Stanford's goal became applying research and findings toward humanistic ends.

Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth is descended from those early experiments.

Lott's side prevailed 215 to 76, and Stanford's chapter subsequently seceded from the fraternity.

Following Stanford's governorship, the term of office changed from two years to four years, in line with legislation passed during his time in office.

Historically, this program accepted students from institutions from around the world, and included graduates attending Oxford, Cambridge, The London School of Economics, and The London Conservatory, and was Stanford's Honor Program in England until its transfer to The University of Evansville.

Further changes were made to the Sky News schedule on 8 September 2008, with Colin Brazier presenting a new show from 1pm-2pm, The Live Desk, Martin Stanford's Sky. Com News became SkyNews. com and moved to 7pm every weeknight, and Sky Midnight News was introduced.

The theory behind this software came from work on social interfaces by Clifford Nass and Byron Reeves at Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information.

Two Southern California ( USC ) players have won the trophy in the early years of the 21st century and two won it subsequent to Palmer, but no non-USC player from the West Coast has won since Stanford's Jim Plunkett in 1970.

( For higher notes see, for example, the treble solo at the beginning of Stanford's Magnificat in G, David Willcocks ' descant to Mendelssohn's tune for the carol Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, the even higher treble solo from Gregorio Allegri's " Miserere ", and the treble part in the Nunc Dimittis from Tippett's Evening Canticles written for St John's College, Cambridge ) Many trebles are also able to reach higher notes by use of the whistle register but this practice is rarely called for in performance.

Charles Villiers Stanford's comic opera Shamus O ' Brien ran for two months from March to May the same year.

In 1980 he retired from Caltech and moved to his final position at Stanford's CCRMA.

The church's chaplains were instrumental in the founding of Stanford's religious studies department, moving Stanford from a " completely secular university " at the middle of the century to " the renaissance of faith and learning at Stanford " in the late 1960s, when the study of religion at the university focused on social and ethical issues like race and the Vietnam War.

Stanford's Memorial Church's dean at the time, Robert C. Gregg, obtained permission from the university administration and discussed it with his staff before the ceremony was performed.

from Stanford University, where he did senior honors work in Latin American economic history and was a member of Stanford's Naval ROTC unit.

Brodie taught at Stanford University from 1970 to 1974 and was chair of Stanford's Medical School Faculty Senate and director of the General Research Center.