The Stanford presidency [videorecording] 2005

Stanford university

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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...

Kennedy, Donald, 1931-...

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Donald Kennedy was Stanford's eighth president, serving from 1980 to 1992. Prior to taking office he was vice president and provost under his predecessor Richard W. Lyman. Kennedy, holder of three degrees from Harvard, joined Stanford's biology faculty in 1960 and while on leave from 1977 to 1979 served in Washington, D.C., as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. During his presidency, Stanford celebrated its centennial and its full emergence as a world-class university. Kennedy was...

Lyman, Richard W.

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Biographical/Historical Sketch Stanford University President Emeritus Richard W. Lyman founded the Institute for International Studies in 1988 and was its director until August 1991. The Institute brings experts from a variety of disciplines within the university together with long- and short-term visitors from other academic, government, and corporate institutions to study contemporary policy issues. Research is focused primarily on internat...

Casper, Gerhard

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Biographical/Historical Sketch Formerly Dean of the Law School and University Provost at the University of Chicago, Gerhard Casper became the 9th president of Stanford University in 1992. From the guide to the Gerhard Casper lecture at George Mason University [videorecording], 1994, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives) Biographical/Historical Sketch ...

Hennessy, John L.

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