Gerhard Casper, president of Stanford University, papers, 1983-2000.
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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...
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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. ...
Casper, Gerhard.
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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. His concerns while in office included restoration of the campus after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, a comprehensive study of undergraduate education, recruitment and retention of faculty, the integration of the Stanford Alumni Association into the university, and the creation of a new Science and Engineering Quad. He left office in 2000 t...
