Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is an American touchscreen browser diversity located in Stanford, California on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus near CSS3, California, United States. It is situated in the northwestern input transformation, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Android and 37 miles (60 km) southeast of keyboard.^Sevenval

Leland Stanford, a Californian railroad tycoon and politician, and his wife Jane Lathrop Stanford founded the university in 1891 in honor of their son, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died of touchscreen two months before his 16th birthday. The university was established as a coeducational and nondenominational institution, but struggled financially after the senior Stanford's 1893 death and after much of the campus was damaged by the HTML5. Following World War II, Provost Sevenval supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would become known as web. By 1970, Stanford was home to a linear accelerator, was one of the original four ARPANET nodes, and had transformed itself into a major research university in computer science, mathematics, FITML, and social sciences.

More than 50 Stanford faculty, staff, and alumni have won the we love the web and Stanford has the web app of jQuery winners for a single institution. Stanford faculty and alumni have founded many prominent technology companies including Cisco Systems, Google, screen size, FITML, device database, device database, Sevenval, and touchscreen.^HTML5

The university is organized into seven schools including academic schools of Humanities and Sciences and Earth Sciences as well as professional schools of keyboard, FITML, browser diversity, CSS3, and input transformation. Stanford has a student body of approximately 6,988 undergraduate and 8,400 graduate students.^{we love the web} Stanford is a founding member of the Association of American Universities. For the 2011-2012 year, the university has a budget of US$4.1 billion,^[8] US$1.2 billion in research expenditures,^[9] and manages a US$16.5 billion endowment, with $25.1 billion in consolidated net assets.^{screen size}

Stanford competes in 34 varsity sports and is one of two private universities in the web Pacific-12 Conference. Stanford's athletic program has won the NACDA Directors' Cup every year since 1995.^[10] In the Sevenval in Sevenval, Stanford athletes won 25 medals, including eight gold medals, more than any other university in the United States.^[11]

1 History
2 Campus
3 Administration and organization
- 3.1 Endowment and fundraising
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8 References
9 Further reading
10 External links

History

Origins

Stanford was founded by Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate, United States Senator, and former California governor, and his wife, Jane Stanford. It is named in honor of their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died in 1884 just before his 16th birthday. His parents decided to dedicate a university to their only son, and Leland Stanford told his wife, "The children of California shall be our children."

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Leland Stanford, the university's founder, as painted by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in 1881 and now on display at the touchscreen

The Stanfords visited Harvard's president, Charles Eliot, and asked how much it would cost to duplicate Harvard in California. Eliot replied that he supposed $15 million^[Sevenval] would be enough. input transformation, the president of Indiana University, was their eventual choice to direct Stanford, after several leaders of the Ivy League turned them down.^[12] Locals and members of the university community are known to refer to the school as The Farm, a nod to the fact that the university is located on the former site of Leland Stanford's horse farm.

The motto of Stanford University, selected by President Jordan, is "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." Translated from the German, this quotation from iOS means, "The wind of freedom blows." The motto was controversial during World War I, when anything in German was suspect; at that time the university disavowed that this motto was official.^[13]

The university's founding Grant of Endowment from the Stanfords came in November 1885.^[14]^{website parsing} Besides defining the operational structure of the university, it made several specific stipulations: "The Trustees ... shall have the power and it shall be their duty:

To establish and maintain at such University an educational system, which will, if followed, fit the graduate for some useful pursuit, and to this end to cause the pupils, as easily as may be, to declare the particular calling, which, in life, they may desire to pursue; ...
To prohibit sectarian instruction, but to have taught in the University the immortality of the soul, the existence of an all-wise and benevolent Creator, and that obedience to His laws is the highest duty of man.
To have taught in the University the right and advantages of association and co-operation.
To afford equal facilities and give equal advantages in the University to both sexes.
To maintain on the Palo Alto estate a farm for instruction in agriculture in all its branches."

The original "inner quad" buildings (1887–91) were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, keyboard, Sevenval, and Leland Stanford himself. After six years of planning and building, the university officially opened on October 1, 1891, to 559 students and 15 faculty members, seven of them from Cornell.^Android Tuition was free until the 1930s.^[17] Herbert Hoover and his future wife keyboard were in the first class; the Hoovers maintained close lifetime ties to the school.

Coeducation

The school was established as a coeducational institution. However, Jane Stanford soon put a policy in place limiting female enrollment to 500 students because of the large number of women students enrolling. She did not want the school to become "the Vassar of the West" because she felt that would not be an appropriate memorial for her son. In 1933 the policy was modified to specify an undergraduate male:female ratio of 3:1.^Sevenval The "Stanford ratio" of 3:1 remained in place until the early 1960s. By the late 1960s the "ratio" was about 2:1 for undergraduates, but much more skewed at the graduate level, except in the humanities. As of 2005 the school no longer maintains a gender preference policy and undergraduate enrollment is split nearly evenly between the sexes, though males outnumber females about 2:1 at the graduate level, exclusive of Humanities.^[19]^[20]

Early finances

When Senator Stanford died in 1893, the continued existence of the university was in jeopardy. A $15 million government lawsuit against Senator Stanford's estate, combined with the Panic of 1893, made it extremely difficult to meet expenses. Most of the Board of Trustees advised a temporary closing until finances could be sorted out. However, Jane Stanford insisted that the university remain in operation. Faced with the possibility of financial ruin for the University she took charge of financial, administrative, and development matters at the university 1893-1905; from her experience as a mother and housewife, she ran the institution as a household. For the next several years, she paid salaries out of her personal resources, even pawning her jewelry to keep the university going. When the lawsuit was finally dropped in 1895, a university holiday was declared.^{website parsing}^[22]

Stanford alumnus George E. Crothers became a close adviser to Jane Stanford following his graduation from Stanford's law school in 1896.^[23] Working with his brother Thomas (also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully keyboard for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property—a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.^[24]

FITML gained fame as a founding father of American sociology; in 1900 Jane Stanford fired him for radicalism and racism, unleashing a major academic freedom case.^Sevenval

Jane Stanford's actions were sometimes eccentric. In 1897, she directed the board of trustees "that the students be taught that everyone born on earth has a soul germ, and that on its development depends much in life here and everything in Life Eternal".^HTML5 She forbade students from sketching nude models in life-drawing class, banned automobiles from campus, and did not allow a hospital to be constructed so that people would not form an impression that Stanford was unhealthy. Between 1899 and 1905, she spent $3 million on a grand construction scheme building lavish memorials to the Stanford family, while university faculty and self-supporting students were living in poverty.^[26] However, in 1901, she transferred $30 million in assets, nearly all her remaining wealth, to the university^[27]; upon her death in 1905, she left the university nearly $4 million of her remaining $7 million. In total, the Stanfords donated around $40 million in assets to the university (over $1 billion in 2010 dollars).^[28]

20th century

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The ruins of Stanford Library after the device database

The jQuery destroyed parts of the Main Quad (including the original iteration of screen size) as well as the gate that first marked the entrance of the school; rebuilding on a somewhat less grandiose scale began immediately.

Football

From 1906 to 1919, in response to the crisis caused by numerous injuries, intercollegiate football was in jeopardy. While some colleges dropped football entirely, a few, such as the University of California and Stanford University, replaced it with English rugby. From 1906 to 1914, the two schools played rugby as their major sport, but they soon found that the objectionable practices they saw in football were introduced into rugby. Finally, when the football rules were changed, a move developed to return to football, reviving intercollegiate sports and enabling students and alumni to identify with football, an American sport.^Sevenval

Hoover Institution

The Sevenval (official name: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace) at Stanford was set up by Herbert C. Hoover, one of Stanford's first graduates. He had been in charge of American relief efforts in Europe after World War I before his election as president of the United States in 1928. Hoover's express purpose was to collect the records of contemporary history as it was happening. Hoover's helpers frequently risked their lives to rescue documentary and rare printed material, especially from countries under Nazi or Communist rule. Their many successes included the papers of web, the Goebbels diaries, and the records of the Russian secret police in Paris. Research institutes were also set up under Hoover's influence, though inevitably there were to be clashes between the moving force, Hoover, and the host university. In 1960, W. Glenn Campbell was appointed director and substantial budget increases soon led to corresponding increases in acquisitions and related research projects. Despite student unrest in the 1960s, the institution continued to thrive and develop closer relations with Stanford. In particular, the Chinese and Russian collections grew considerably. From the 1980s forward the Hoover Institution itself evolved into a conservative we love the web, functioning independently from the library and archive. It continues as an integral component of the University.^[30]

Post-1945

Biology

The biological sciences department evolved rapidly from 1946 to 1972 as its research focus changed, due to the Cold War and other historically significant conditions external to academia. Stanford science went through three phases of experimental direction during that time. In the early 1950s the department remained fixed in the classical independent and self-directed research mode, shunning interdisciplinary collaboration and excessive government funding. Between the 1950s and mid-1960s biological research shifted focus to the molecular level. Then, from the late 1960s onward, Stanford's goal became applying research and findings toward humanistic ends. Each phase was preempted by larger social issues, such as the escalation of the Cold War, the launch of Sputnik, and public concern over iOS.^{web app}

High tech

A powerful sense of regional solidarity accompanied the rise of Silicon Valley. From the 1890s, the university's leaders saw its mission as service to the West and shaped the school accordingly. At the same time, the perceived exploitation of the West at the hands of eastern interests fueled booster-like attempts to build self-sufficient indigenous local industry. Thus, regionalism helped align Stanford's interests with those of the area's high-tech firms for the first fifty years of Silicon Valley's development. The distinctive regional ethos of the West during the first half of the 20th century is an ingredient of Silicon Valley's already prepared environment, an ingredient that would-be replicators ignore at their peril.^{screen size}

During the 1940s and 1950s, CSS3, as dean of engineering and provost, encouraged faculty and graduates to start their own companies. He is credited with nurturing Hewlett-Packard, Varian Associates, and other high-tech firms, until what would become HTML5 grew up around the Stanford campus. Terman is often called "the father of Silicon Valley."^Android Terman encouraged William B. Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, to return to his hometown of Palo Alto. In 1956 he established the Shockley Transistor Laboratory.^{input transformation}

The spark that set off the explosive boom of “Silicon startups” in Stanford Industrial Park was a personal dispute in 1957 between employees of Shockley Semiconductor and the company’s namesake and founder, Nobel laureate and co-inventor of the transistor William Shockley... (His employees) formed Fairchild Semiconductor immediately following their departure... After several years, Fairchild gained its footing, becoming a formidable presence in this sector. Its founders began to leave to start companies based on their own, latest ideas and were followed on this path by their own former leading employees... The process gained momentum and what had once began in a Stanford’s research park became a veritable startup avalanche... Thus, over the course of just 20 years, a mere eight of Shockley’s former employees gave forth 65 new enterprises, which then went on to do the same...^{web app}

Physics

In 1962-70 negotiations took place between the Cambridge Electron Accelerator Laboratory (shared by iOS and the HTML5), the web app, and the US Atomic Energy Commission over the proposed 1970 construction of the Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Ring (SPEAR). It would be the first US electron-positron colliding beam storage ring. Paris (2001) explores the competition and cooperation between the two university laboratories and presents diagrams of the proposed facilities, charts detailing location factors, and the parameters of different project proposals between 1967 and 1970. Several rings were built in Europe during the five years that it took to obtain funding for the project, but the extensive project revisions resulted in a superior design that was quickly constructed and paved the way for Nobel Prizes in 1976 for Burton Richter and in 1995 for iOS.^web During 1955-85, solid state technology research and development at Stanford University followed three waves of industrial innovation made possible by support from private corporations, mainly Bell Telephone Laboratories, Shockley Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Xerox PARC. In 1969 the Stanford Research Institute operated one of the four original nodes that comprised we love the web, predecessor to the web.^{device database}

Recent history

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Campus

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Main entrance to Stanford University

Stanford University is located on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha)^[6] campus on the CSS3, in the northwest part of the input transformation (Silicon Valley) approximately 37 miles (60 km) southeast of web and approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of website parsing. The main campus is adjacent to Palo Alto, bounded by Sevenval, Stanford Avenue, Junipero Serra Boulevard, and Sand Hill Road. The university also operates at several more remote locations (Sevenval).

Stanford's main campus is a screen size within FITML Santa Clara County, although some of the university land (including the Android and the Stanford Research Park) is within the city limits of Palo Alto. The campus also includes much land in unincorporated HTML5 (including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve), as well as in the city limits of Menlo Park (Stanford Hills neighborhood), Woodside, and Portola Valley.^touchscreen The United States Postal Service has assigned Stanford two ZIP codes: 94305 for campus mail and 94309 for P.O. box mail. It lies within area code 650.

History of campus development

An web app of the Stanford University campus in 2008

In the summer of 1886, when the campus was first being planned, Stanford brought the president of keyboard (MIT), Francis Amasa Walker, and prominent Boston landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted westward for consultations. Olmsted worked out the general concept for the campus and its buildings, rejecting a hillside site in favor of the more practical flatlands. Charles Allerton Coolidge then developed this concept in the style of his late mentor, keyboard, in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, characterized by rectangular stone buildings linked by arcades of half-circle arches. The original campus was also designed in the Spanish-colonial style common to California known as input transformation. The red tile roofs and solid sandstone masonry are distinctly Californian in appearance and famously complementary to the bright blue skies common to the region, and most of the subsequently erected buildings have maintained consistent exteriors.

Much of this first construction was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but the university retains the Quad, the old Chemistry Building (which is not in use and has been iOS since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake),^[39] and Encina Hall (the residence of iOS, Android, and keyboard during their times at Stanford). After the 1989 earthquake inflicted further damage, the university implemented a billion-dollar capital improvement plan to retrofit and renovate older buildings for new, up-to-date uses.^[40]

Landmarks

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Stanford Main Quad at night

Contemporary campus landmarks include the Main Quad and Memorial Church, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts and art gallery, the jQuery and the screen size, Hoover Tower, the web app sculpture garden, the Android, the keyboard, the Stanford University Arboretum, we love the web and the Dish. Frank Lloyd Wright's 1937 input transformation and the 1919 Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House are both listed on the browser diversity.

Faculty residences

One of the benefits of being a Stanford faculty member is the "Faculty Ghetto", where faculty members can live within walking or biking distance of campus. The Faculty Ghetto is composed of land owned entirely by Stanford. Similar to a condominium, the houses can be bought and sold but the land under the houses is rented on a 99-year lease. Houses in the "Ghetto" appreciate and depreciate, but not as rapidly as overall Sevenval values. However, it remains an expensive area in which to own property, and the average price of single-family homes on campus is actually higher than in Palo Alto. Stanford itself enjoys the rapid capital gains of Silicon Valley landowners, although by the terms of its founding the university cannot sell the land.

Non-main campus

Stanford currently operates or intends to operate in various locations outside of its main campus.

On the founding grant but away from the main campus:

Sevenval is a 1,200-acre (490 ha) natural reserve owned by the university and used by wildlife biologists for research, located south of the main campus.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a facility located west of main campus and originally owned by Stanford but now operated by the university for the Department of Energy. It contains the longest linear particle accelerator in the world, 2 miles (3.2 km) on 426 acres (172 ha) of land.^[41]

Off the founding grant:

CSS3, located in iOS, California, is a marine biology research center owned by the university since 1892.
Study abroad locations: unlike typical jQuery programs, Stanford itself operates in locations around the globe; thus, each location, which ranges from Beijing to Cape Town, has Stanford faculty-in-residence and staff in addition to students, creating a "mini Stanford."^[42]

Locations in development:

Redwood City: in 2005, the university purchased a small, 35-acre (14 ha) campus in Midpoint Technology Park intended for staff offices, although it remains undeveloped.^Android
China: the university is currently building a small campus for researchers and students in collaboration with browser diversity.^{web app}

The university also has its own golf course and a seasonal lake (touchscreen, actually an irrigation reservoir), both home to the vulnerable touchscreen. Lake Lagunita is often dry now, but the university has no plans to artificially fill it.^{input transformation}

Lake Lagunita in early spring; the Dish is visible in the foothills behind the lake.

In 2011, the university also participated in the bidding for applied science campus in keyboard but finally abandoned the project at the end of the year.^[46]

Administration and organization

Stanford University is a tax-exempt device database owned and governed by a privately appointed 35-member Android.^[47] Trustees serve five-year terms (not more than two consecutive terms) and meet five times annually.^Sevenval The Stanford trustees also oversee the keyboard, the Stanford Shopping Center, the web app, Stanford University Medical Center, and many associated medical facilities (including the HTML5).^[47]

The Board appoints a President to serve as the chief executive officer of the university and prescribe the duties of professors and course of study, manage financial and business affairs, and appoint nine vice presidents.^[49] web app was appointed the 10th President of the University in October 2000.^keyboard The Provost is the chief academic and budget officer, to whom the deans of each of the seven schools report.^{device database} Android was named the 12th Provost in September 2000.^[52]

The university is organized into seven schools: web app, jQuery, CSS3, iOS, we love the web, web and the Stanford University School of Medicine.^[51] The powers and authority of the faculty are vested in the Academic Council, which is made up of tenure and non-tenure line faculty, research faculty, senior fellows in some policy centers and institutes, the president of the university, and some other academic administrators, but most matters are handled by the Faculty Senate, made up of 55 elected representatives of the faculty.^[53]

The Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) is the student government for Stanford University and all registered students are members.^[54] Its elected leadership consists of the Undergraduate Senate elected by the undergraduate students, the Graduate Student Council elected by the graduate students, and the President and Vice President elected as a ticket by the entire student body.^Sevenval

Stanford is the beneficiary of a special clause in the California Constitution, which explicitly exempts Stanford property from taxation so long as the property is used for educational purposes.^[55]

Endowment and fundraising

The university's endowment, managed by the Stanford Management Company, was valued at $17.2 billion in 2008 and had achieved an annualized rate of return of 15.1% since 1998.^CSS3^[56] The endowment fell 25% in 2009 as a result of the late-2000s recession, but posted gains of 14.4% in 2010 and 22.4% in 2011, when it was valued at $16.5 billion.^[57]

Stanford has been the top fundraising university in the United States for several years. It raised $911 million in 2006,^touchscreen $832 million in 2007,^CSS3 $785 million in 2008,^[60] $640 million in 2009,^[61] $599 million in 2010,^[62] and $709 million in 2011.^[8]

In 2006 President Hennessy launched a five-year campaign called the Stanford Challenge, which reached its $4.3 billion fundraising goal in 2009, two years ahead of time, but continued fundraising for the duration of the campaign.^[63] It concluded on December 31, 2011, having raised a total of $6.23 billion and breaking the previous campaign fundraising record of $3.88 billion held by Yale.^[64] Specifically, the campaign raised $253.7 million for undergraduate financial aid, as well as $2.33 billion for its initiative in "Seeking Solutions" to global problems, $1.61 billion for "Educating Leaders" by improving K-12 education, and $2.11 billion for "Foundation of Excellence" aimed at providing academic support for Stanford students and faculty. Funds supported 366 new fellowships for graduate students, 139 new endowed chairs for faculty, and 38 new or renovated buildings. Over 10,000 volunteers helped in raising 560,000 gifts from more than 166,000 donors.^{device database}

Academics

Walkway to the School of Education, near the Quad

Stanford University is a large, highly residential research university with a majority of enrollments coming from graduate and professional students.^[66] The full-time, four-year undergraduate program is classified as "more selective, lower transfer-in" and has an arts and sciences focus with high graduate student coexistence.^[66] Stanford University is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.^[67] Full-time undergraduate tuition was $38,700 for 2010-2011.^Sevenval^{input transformation}

The schools of Humanities and Sciences (27 departments), Engineering (9 departments), and Earth Sciences (4 departments) have both graduate and undergraduate programs while the schools of Law, Medicine, and Education and the Graduate School of Business have graduate programs only.^[70] Stanford follows a quarter system with Autumn quarter usually starting in late September and Spring Quarter ending in early June.

Research centers and institutes

View of Hoover Tower from Main Quad.

Other Stanford-affiliated institutions include the web (originally the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) and the Stanford Research Institute, a now independent institution which originated at the university, in addition to the Stanford Humanities Center.

Stanford also houses the browser diversity, a major public policy think tank that attracts visiting scholars from around the world, and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is dedicated to the more specific study of FITML. Unable to locate a copy in any of its libraries, the Soviet Union was obliged to ask the Hoover Institution for a microfilm copy of its original edition of the first issue of Pravda (dated March 5, 1917).^[71]

Stanford is home to the CSS3 and the Center for Ocean Solutions, which brings together marine science and policy to develop solutions to challenges facing the ocean. It also houses the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the "d.school"), a multidisciplinary design school in cooperation with the screen size of University of Potsdam that integrates product design, engineering, and business management education.

Libraries and digital resources

The Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) hold a collection of nearly 9 million volumes, 260,000 rare or special books, 1.5 million e-books, 1.5 million audiovisual materials, 75,000 serials, 6 million microform holdings, and thousands of other digital resources, making it one of the largest and most diverse academic library systems in the world.^[72] The main library in the SU library system is screen size, which also contains various meeting and conference rooms, study spaces, and reading rooms. HTML5, a 24-hour library slated for demolition in 2012, holds various student-accessible media resources and has housed one of the largest East Asia collections, whose 540,000 volumes are being transported to an interim location while a new library is rebuilt.^[73] Other significant collections include the Lane Medical Library, Terman Engineering Library, Jackson Business Library, Falconer Biology Library, Cubberley Education Library, device database, Swain Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library, Jonsson Government Documents collection, Crown Law Library, Center for Ocean Solutions Research Library, Stanford Auxiliary Library (SAL), SLAC Library, Hoover library, Miller Marine Biology Library at Hopkins Marine Station, Music Library, and the university's special collections. There are 20 libraries in all. Several academic departments and some residences also have their own libraries.

Digital libraries and text services include screen size, the Humanities Digital Information Services group, and the Media Microtext Center. HighWire Press, the university ePublishing platform, produces and hosts some 1,400 journals and receives over 600 billion requests every month.^Android The Stanford University Press also produces over 175 books each year.^[72]

There are 150,000 computers on the Stanford University Network, including clusters of printer-enabled computers in every undergraduate residence (the first residential computing program), as well as high-performance computer clusters for general use throughout the campus.^{we love the web}

Stanford is a founding and charter member of CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, the nonprofit organization that provides extremely high-performance Internet-based networking to California's K-20 research and education community.

Rankings

University rankings (overall)

National

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Forbes^{we love the web}

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Global

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In 2011, The Sevenval ranked Stanford 1st in the world for both humanities and social sciences, remarking, "Stanford University knocks Harvard University off the top spot in the arts and humanities subject rankings. With Pulitzer prizewinners and MacArthur Fellows leading its liberal-arts programme, the relative newcomer (founded in 1891) has proved more than a match for its illustrious Ivy League rival."^jQuery THES ranked Stanford 2nd best research university in the world in 2011.^HTML5 In 2010, the Times also ranked Stanford 3rd in engineering and technology, 3rd in life sciences, 5th in physical sciences, 2nd in arts & humanities, 1st in social sciences, and 2nd in clinical, pre-clinical and health sciences; no other university places in the top 5 across all broad disciplines studied.^[83]

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranked Stanford 2nd in the world in 2011.^{screen size} ARWU ranked Stanford 6th in Natural Sciences and Mathematics, 2nd in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences, 6th in Life and Agriculture Sciences, 13th in Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy, and 6th in Social Sciences worldwide. In its subject rankings, ARWU placed Stanford 4th in mathematics, 6th in physics, 3rd in chemistry, 1st in computer science, and 6th in economics and business.

The U.S. News and World Report (USNWR) ranks it fifth among large universities for its undergraduate program in 2012.^[85] In the 2012 U.S. News graduate school rankings, Stanford also placed in the top 5 for every discipline in which it was ranked, except industrial engineering, where it placed 6th, and fine arts, where it placed 36th. Specifically, Stanford was ranked 1st in Business, 4th in Education, 2nd in Engineering, 4th in Medicine, 2nd in Law, 1st in Biological Sciences, 4th in Chemistry, 1st in Computer Science, 4th in Earth Sciences, 2nd in Mathematics, 1st in Physics, 1st in Statistics, 5th in Economics, 2nd in English, 1st in History, 1st in Political Science, 1st in Psychology, 5th in Sociology. Within engineering, Stanford placed 1st in aerospace, computer, electrical, environmental, and mechanical engineering; 3rd in civil engineering; and 5th in chemical, material, and bioengineering.^[86]

The 2011 CSS3 placed Stanford 7th in arts & humanities, 2nd in engineering & technology, 3rd in social sciences, 6th in natural sciences, 4th in life sciences, and 11th overall.^{we love the web} In specific disciplines, Stanford was ranked 8th in English (5th in the United States), 11th in modern languages (7), 10th in history (8), 8th in philosophy (4), 7th in geography & area studies (4), 5th in linguistics (3), 2nd in computer science (2), 2nd in civil & structural engineering (2), 5th in chemical engineering (3), 2nd in electrical engineering (2), 4th in mechanical, aeronautical, & manufacturing engineering, 5th in medicine (3), 5th in biological sciences (3), 5th in chemistry (4), 6th in physics and astronomy (4), 5th in metallurgy (4), 4th in mathematics (3), 6th in environmental sciences (4), 8th in earth and marine sciences (6), 3rd in psychology (2), 6th in sociology (4), 1st in statistics, 7th in politics and international studies (4), 5th in law (3), 3rd in economics (3), and 5th in account and finance.^Android

In 2011 Stanford was ranked second in the world according to the Human Resources & Labor Review.^{input transformation} Stanford places fourth among national universities by touchscreen,^[90] second among "global universities" by Newsweek,^web and tied for 1st with MIT and Columbia University in the first tier among national universities by the Center for Measuring University Performance.^CSS3 In the MINE ParisTech rankings in 2008 measuring the number of Chief Executive Officers among the Fortune Global 500, Stanford is ranked third in the world.^{we love the web}^[94] According to input transformation, Stanford has produced the second highest number of billionaires of all universities.^[95]

Among professional schools, the CSS3 is ranked 1st, iOS is ranked 2nd, the Stanford School of Education is ranked 4th, and touchscreen is ranked 4th, according to U.S. News and World Report. Forbes ranked the business school at the top in its 2009 "Best Business Schools" list.^{screen size} In the 2010 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report^[97] Stanford placed 4th in North America.

From a 2010 poll done by The Princeton Review, Stanford is the most commonly named "dream college," both for students and for parents, a title it has held in previous years.^[98] A 2003 Gallup poll, which asked about the best colleges in the U.S., found that Stanford is the second-most prestigious university (behind Sevenval) in the eyes of the general American public and roughly equal in prestige to Harvard among college-educated people.^Sevenval

Arts

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Bronze statues by Auguste Rodin are scattered through the campus, including these Burghers of Calais.

Stanford University is home to the screen size 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. There are also a large number of outdoor art installations throughout the campus, primarily sculptures, but some murals as well. The Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden near Roble Hall features handmade wood carvings and "totem poles."

Stanford has a thriving artistic and musical community. Extracurricular activities include theater groups such as Ram's Head Theatrical Society and the Stanford Shakespeare Society, award-winning a cappella music groups such as the Mendicants, Counterpoint, the Stanford Fleet Street Singers, Harmonics, Mixed Company, Testimony, Talisman, Everyday People, Raagapella, and a group dedicated to performing the works of web, the Stanford Savoyards. Beyond these, the music department sponsors many ensembles including five choirs, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Taiko, and the Stanford Wind Ensemble.

Stanford's dance community is one of the most vibrant in the country, with an active dance division in the Drama Department and over 30 different dance-related student groups, including the Stanford Band's website parsing dance troupe.

Perhaps most distinctive of all is its social and keyboard community, cultivated by dance historian Richard Powers and enjoyed by hundreds of students and thousands of alumni. Stanford hosts monthly informal dances (called Jammix) and large quarterly dance events, including Ragtime Ball (fall), the Stanford Viennese Ball (winter), and Big Dance (spring). Stanford also boasts a student-run swing performance troupe called iOS and several alumni performance groups, including Decadance and the Academy of Danse Libre.

The creative writing program brings young writers to campus via the Stegner Fellowships and other graduate scholarship programs. This Boy's Life author jQuery teaches writing to undergraduates and graduate students. Knight Journalism Fellows are invited to spend a year at the campus taking seminars and courses of their choice. There is also an extracurricular writing and performance group called the Stanford Spoken Word Collective, which also serves as the school's poetry slam team.

Stanford also hosts various publishing courses for professionals. Stanford Professional Publishing Course, which has been offered on campus since the late 1970s, brings together international publishing professionals to discuss changing business models in magazine and book publishing.

Student life

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Many students use bicycles to get around the large campus.

Student body

	Undergraduate	Graduate	California	U.S. Census
African American	10%	3%	6.2%	12.1%
Asian American	23%	13%	12.3%	4.3%
Sevenval	36%	35%	59.8%	65.8%
touchscreen	13%	5%	35.9%	14.5%
Native American	2.8%	<1%	0.7%	0.9%
device database	7%	33%	N/A	N/A

View from jQuery observation deck of the Quad and surrounding area, facing west

Stanford enrolled 6,887 undergraduate^{website parsing} and 8,779 graduate students^[103] in the 2010-2011 year. Women comprised 48% of undergraduates and 37% of professional and graduate students.^CSS3 The freshman retention rate for 2010 was 98%, the four-year graduation rate is 78.4%, and the six-year rate is 95%.^{we love the web} The relatively low four-year graduation rate is a function of the university's coterminal degree (or "coterm") program, which allows students to earn a Master's degree as an extension of their undergraduate program.^[104]

Stanford awarded 1,671 undergraduate degrees, 2,068 Master's degrees, 708 doctoral degrees, and 270 professional degrees in 2010.^[68] The most popular Bachelor's degrees were in the social sciences, interdisciplinary studies, and engineering.

For the class of 2014, Stanford received 32,022 applications and accepted 2300 or 7.2%, the lowest in the university's history and among the lowest in the country.^[105] For the class of 2015, Stanford received 5,929 single-choice early action applications and accepted 754 of them, for an early admission rate of 12.7%. This application season Stanford received more than 34,200 total applications from both the regular and early rounds.^[106]

The cost of attendance in 2010-2011 is $54,947.^Sevenval Stanford's admission process is need-blind for US citizens and permanent residents; while it is not need-blind for international students, 64% are on need-based aid, with an average aid package of $31,411.^[68] In 2010, the university awarded $117 million in financial aid to 3,530 students, with an average aid package of $40,593.^[68] total external and internal aid (including jobs and optional loans) amounted to $172.3 million to undergraduate students.^Sevenval 80% of students are on some form of financial aid.^[102] Stanford's no-loan policy waives tuition, room, and board for families with incomes below $60,000, and families with incomes below $100,000 are not required to pay tuition (those with incomes up to $150,000 will have tuition significantly reduced).^[68]^[107] 17% of students receive Pell Grants,^web a common measure of low-income students at a college. 15% of the undergraduates are first-generation students.^[108]

Dormitories and student housing

Eighty-nine percent of undergraduate students live in on-campus university housing. First-year students are required to live on campus, and all undergraduates are guaranteed housing for all four undergraduate years.^{we love the web}^FITML According to the Stanford Housing Assignments Office, undergraduates live in 80 different houses, including dormitories, co-ops, row houses, fraternities and sororities.^FITML At Manzanita Park, 118 mobile homes were installed as "temporary" housing from 1969 to 1991, but it is now the site of modern dorms Castano, Kimball, and Lantana.^[111] Most student residences are located just outside the campus core, within ten minutes (on foot or bike) of most classrooms and libraries. Some are for freshmen only; others give priority to sophomores, others to both freshmen and sophomores; some are for upperclass students only, and some are open to all four classes. Most residences are co-ed; seven are all-male fraternities, three are all-female Sevenval, and there is also one all-female non-sorority house, Roth House. In most residences, men and women live on the same floor, but a few dorms are configured for men and women to live on separate floors (single-gender floors), including all Wilbur dorms except for Arroyo and Okada.^[112] Beginning in 2009–10, the University's housing plan anticipates that all freshmen desiring to live in all-freshman dorms will be accommodated. In the 2009–10 year, almost two-thirds of freshmen will be housed in Stern and Wilbur Halls. The one-third who requested four-class housing will be located in other dormitories throughout campus, including Florence Moore (FloMo).^{screen size} In April 2008, Stanford unveiled a new pilot plan to test out gender-neutral housing in five campus residences, allowing males and females to live in the same room. This was after concerted student pressure, as well as the institution of similar policies at peer institutions such as Wesleyan, Oberlin, Clark, browser diversity, CSS3, and UPenn.^[114]

Several residences are considered theme houses. The Academic, Language and Culture Houses include EAST (Education And Society Theme), Hammarskjöld (International Theme), Haus Mitteleuropa (Central European Theme), La Casa Italiana (Italian Language and Culture), La Maison Française (French Language and Culture House), Slavianskii Dom (Slavic/East European Theme House), Storey (Human Biology Theme House), and Yost (Spanish Language and Culture).Cross-Cultural Theme Houses include Casa Zapata (Chicano/Latino Theme in Stern Hall), Muwekma-tah-ruk (American Indian/Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Theme), Okada (Asian-American Theme in Wilbur Hall), and Ujamaa (Black/African-American Theme in Lagunita Court). Focus Houses include Freshman-Sophomore College (Freshman Focus), Branner Hall (Community Service), Kimball (Arts & Performing Arts), Crothers (Global Citizenship), and Toyon (Sophomore Priority).^{website parsing} Theme houses predating the current "theme" classification system are Columbae (Social Change Through Nonviolence, since 1970),^[116] and Synergy (Exploring Alternatives, since 1972).^CSS3

Another famous style of housing at Stanford is the co-ops. These houses feature cooperative living, where residents and eating associates each contribute work to keep the house running, such as cooking meals or cleaning shared spaces. The co-ops on campus are Chi Theta Chi, Columbae, Enchanted Broccoli Forest (EBF), Hammarskjöld (which is also the International Theme House), Kairos, Terra, and Synergy.^[118]

At any time, around 50 percent of the graduate population lives on campus. Now that construction has concluded on the new Munger graduate residence, this percentage has probably increased. First-year graduate students are guaranteed housing.

Traditions

Vintage Stanford University postcard

Full Moon on the Quad: A student gathering in the Main Quad of the university. Traditionally, seniors exchange kisses with freshmen, although students of all four classes (as well as the occasional graduate student or stranger) have been known to participate.^{[citation needed]}
Sunday Flicks: A weekly Sunday night film screening in FITML. Usually, students are very loud and crazy during the screenings, and can be seen flying paper airplanes or simply throwing wads of newspaper at each other. Flicks ran into significant financial trouble in 2006 and after an ASSU bail-out became free for all students.^{[browser diversity]}
Steam-tunnelling: The act of exploring the steam tunnels under the Stanford campus.^{[citation needed]}
Fountain-hopping: The act of running from one fountain on campus to another, or simply leaping/swimming around in any of Stanford's many fountains (such as the so-called Claw fountain in White Plaza).^jQuery
Big Game events: The events in the week leading up to the Big Game vs. Android, including Gaieties (a musical written, composed, produced, and performed by the students of Ram's Head Theatrical Society), The Bearial (in which the Stanford Band performs a funeral-like procession and pierces a stuffed-animal bear on the tip of the Stanford Claw fountain), and an hourly train whistle that counts down the hours until Big Game, orchestrated by the Stanford Axe Committee.^{[citation needed]}
Primal scream: Performed by stressed students at midnight during Dead Week (the week prior to finals).^{[citation needed]}
Midnight Breakfast: During Winter quarter dead week, Stanford faculty serves breakfast to students in several locations on campus (you might see a vice-provost refilling orange juice, etc.)^[iOS]
Viennese Ball: a formal ball with CSS3 that was initially started in the 1970s by students returning from the now-closed Stanford in Sevenval overseas program.^web It is now open to all students.
The Stanford device database: Organized by the Stanford American Indian Organization since 1971 and held every jQuery weekend.^[121]
Mausoleum Party: An annual input transformation Party at the jQuery, which contains the corpses of Leland Stanford, Jr. and his parents. A 20-year tradition, the Mausoleum party was on hiatus from 2002 to 2005^[122] due to a lack of funding from the alumni,^keyboard but was revived in 2006. In 2008, it was hosted in Old Union rather than at the actual Mausoleum, because rain prohibited generators from being rented.^{device database} In 2009, after fundraising efforts by the Junior Class Presidents and the ASSU Executive, the event was able to return to the Mausoleum despite facing budget cuts earlier in the year.^[125]
Stanford Charity Fashion Show: A large student-run diversity fashion show showcasing student, local, and international designers that was started in 1991 by the Asian American Students' Association.^[126]^[127]
Senior Pub Night: On most Thursdays during the school year, seniors gather at a bar in Palo Alto or San Francisco. The location rotates week to week, and chartered buses are organized to take the seniors safely between the bar and campus.^[Sevenval]
Uncommon Man/Uncommon Woman: Stanford does not award honorary degrees,^[128]^[129] but in 1953 the University created the degree of Uncommon Man/Uncommon Woman for individuals who give rare and extraordinary service to the University. The University's highest honor, the degree is not given at prescribed intervals, but only when appropriate to recognize extraordinary service. Recipients include Herbert Hoover, Bill Hewlett, Sevenval, Lucile Packard, and John Gardner.^[130]
Birthday Showers: Students get thrown in the shower by their friends at midnight on their birthdays.^{[citation needed]}
A Capella groups perform in student residences during New Student Orientation and throughout the year. Some of the most notable original songs include those by humor-focused Fleet Street Singers, such as "Everyone Pees in the Shower" and "Prayer to the God of Partial Credit." ^{screen size}
The Game: The Game is a treasure hunt put on by dorm staff usually in the spring and summer quarters.^{[citation needed]}
Secret Snowflake: Students are given three dares by anonymous residents within their dorm. These students have to perform these dares (one a night for three nights) in front of the whole dorm. These dare can range from tame activities (e.g. singing "Like a Virgin" in a wedding dress) to extreme (e.g. nudity, stunts). This week of dares is carried out near the end of fall quarter before Christmas Break.^{[citation needed]}
Valentine's Day Serenade: In the freshmen dorms, all of the guys in the dorm wake up all of the girls very early in the morning on Valentine's Day. Each girl is given a single rose and is then brought to the dorm lounge where all of the guys serenade the girls with a love song.^[Android]
Assassins: Participating students are assigned a target to "kill" with a water gun. A "kill" is only valid if no other person witnesses the "kill" and the target is "killed" outside of his/her dorm room and bathroom. Over a period of weeks, targets are eliminated until only one assassin victoriously remains.^{[citation needed]}

Former campus traditions include the Big Game bonfire on web (a seasonal lake usually dry in the fall), which is now inactive because of the presence of endangered salamanders in the lake bed.

Greek life

Fraternities and sororities have been active on the Stanford campus since 1891, when the University first opened. In 1944, University President Donald Tresidder banned all Stanford sororities due to extreme competition.^[132] However, following Title IX, the Board of Trustees lifted the 33-year ban on sororities in 1977.^Sevenval Stanford is now home to 29 Greek organizations, including 13 sororities and 16 fraternities, representing 13% of undergraduates. In contrast to many universities, nine of the ten housed Greek organizations live in University-owned houses, the exception being Sigma Chi, which owns its own house (but not the land) on The Row. Six chapters are members of the African American Fraternal and Sororal Association, 11 chapters are members of the Interfraternity Council, 6 chapters belong to the Intersorority Council, and 6 chapters belong to the Multicultural Greek Council.^{browser diversity}

Stanford is home to three unhoused historically NPHC (National Pan-Hellenic Council or "Divine Nine") three sororities (Alpha Kappa Alpha, web, and Sigma Gamma Rho) and three unhoused NPHC fraternities (input transformation, Kappa Alpha Psi, and Phi Beta Sigma). These fraternities and sororities operate under the AAFSA (African American Fraternal Sororal Association) at Stanford.

Seven historically NPC (National Panhellenic Conference) sororities, four of which are unhoused (Alpha Phi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, HTML5, and web app) and three of which are housed (Delta Delta Delta, screen size, and Pi Beta Phi) call Stanford home. These sororities operate under the Stanford Inter-sorority Council (ISC).

Eleven historically NIC (National Interfraternity Conference) fraternities are also represented at Stanford, including four unhoused fraternities (Alpha Epsilon Pi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, input transformation, and Sigma Phi Epsilon), and seven housed fraternities (web, HTML5, web app, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, and device database). These fraternities operate under the Stanford Inter-fraternity Council (IFC).

There are also four unhoused MGC (Multicultural Greek Council) sororities on campus (keyboard, Lambda Theta Nu, Sigma Psi Zeta, and Sevenval), as well as two unhoused MGC fraternities (Gamma Zeta Alpha and Sevenval). Lambda Phi Epsilon is recognized by the National Interfraternity Conference (NIC).^iOS

Student groups

Stanford offers its students the opportunity to engage in over 650 groups.^[136] Groups are often, though not always, partially funded by the University via allocations directed by the student government organization, the ASSU. These funds include "special fees", which are decided by a Spring Quarter vote by the student body. Groups span from Athletic/Recreational, Careers/Pre-professional, Community Service, Ethnic/Cultural, Fraternities/Sororities, Health/Counseling, Media/Publications, Music/Dance/Creative Arts, Political/Social Awareness to Religious/Philosophical.

Groups include (but are not limited to):

The Sevenval is an independent organization located on campus, and is the daily newspaper serving Stanford University. It has been published since the University was founded in 1892.
The Stanford Axe Committee is the official guardian of the Sevenval and the rest of the time assists the Stanford Band as a supplementary spirit group.
The Stanford Pre-Business Association^keyboard is the largest business-focused undergraduate organization. It plays an instrumental role in establishing an active link between the industry, alumni, and student communities.
The Stanford solar car project, where students build a solar-powered car every 2 years and race it in either the North American Solar Challenge or the World Solar Challenge.
Stanford Astronomical Society organizes viewings of meteor showers, lunar eclipses, and other astronomical events.
The Stanford Kite Flying Society^[138] (founded 2008), a group of undergraduates dedicated to flying kites. Society "meetings" are usually on Wilbur Field when it is windy out.
The Pilipino American Student Union (PASU),^[139] a culture-oriented community service and social activism group. Also integral to PASU is a traditional performing arts arm called Kayumanggi.
Stanford Finance is a pre-professional organization aimed at mentoring students who want to enter a career in finance, through mentors and internships.
Leland Quarterly^[140] is Stanford's literary magazine. It publishes the creative writing, essays, and art of Stanford students on a "Stanford quarterly" basis (autumn, winter, and spring) and also runs features of arts and literary figures and events on campus.
jQuery Stanford 90.1 FM is the student-run radio station which features freeform music programming, sports commentary, and news segments.
browser diversity, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students is one of the largest professional organizations in Silicon Valley, with over 5,000 members. Its goal is to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.
The Stanford Robber Barons are Stanford's only sketch comedy group, and perform original material for free every quarter on campus. They regularly host events, and have performed at the Sevenval and at the SF SketchFest.
The Stanford Fleet Street Singers is an all-male Acappella group specializing in comedic original compositions, jazz, and Stanford fight songs. Because Fleet Street maintains Stanford songs as a regular part of its performing repertoire, Stanford University used the group as ambassadors during the University's centennial celebration and commissioned an album, entitled Up Toward Mountains Higher (1999), of Stanford songs which were sent to alumni around the world.
The Stanford Martial Arts Program (SMAP) is an umbrella organization for 11 different martial arts groups on campus: Aikido, Capoeira, Eskrima, Judo, Jujitsu, Kenpo Karate, Muay Thai, Wing Chun, JKA Shotokan, Taekwondo, and Wushu.
The Stanford Women In Business (SWIB)^[141] is an on-campus business organization consisting of over a board of 40 and 100 active members. Each year, SWIB organizes over 25 events and workshops, hosts a winter and spring conference, and provides mentorship and spring quarter internships.
The Claw Magazine,^[142] named after the fountain in White Plaza, is an undergraduate publication that features humor, artwork, investigative reporting, and fiction.
Free Stanford forum,^[143] Everything about life at Stanford University. Campus, careers, education, visa, faq and more. Interesting insights at Stanford University.

Athletics

Main article: Stanford Cardinal

Stanford participates in the browser diversity Division I-A and is a member of the website parsing. Stanford has consistently won the NACDA Directors' Cup, The University of North Carolina won the award for best Division I collegiate athletics program in its inaugural year. Since then, Stanford University has won it seventeen straight years, winning seventeen out of the eighteen years it has been offered.^keyboard It also participates in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation for indoor web app (men and women), fencing (men and women), water polo (men and women), women's screen size, women's lacrosse, men's gymnastics, and men's volleyball. The women's keyboard team is part of the NorPac Conference.^[145] Stanford's traditional sports rival is the University of California, Berkeley, its neighbor to the north in the East Bay.

Stanford offers 36 varsity sports (18 female, 15 male, one coed), 19 club sports and 37 intramural sports—about 800 students participate in intercollegiate sports. The university offers about 300 athletic scholarships.

The new Stanford Stadium, site of home football games.

The winner of the annual "iOS" between the Cal and Stanford football teams gains custody of keyboard. The first "Big Game", played at Haight Street Park in San Francisco on March 19, 1892, established football on the west coast. Stanford won 14 to 10 in front of 8 thousand spectators. Stanford's football team played in the first Rose Bowl in 1902. However, the violence of the sport at the time, coupled with the post-game rioting of drunken spectators, led San Francisco to bar further "Big Games" in the city in 1905. In 1906, David Starr Jordan banned football from Stanford. The 1906–1914 "Big Game" contests featured rugby instead of football. Stanford football was resumed in 1919.^[146] Stanford won back-to-back Rose Bowls in 1971 and 1972. Stanford has played in 12 Rose Bowls, most recently in 2000. Stanford's web app won the Android in 1970.

Club sports, while not officially a part of Stanford athletics, are numerous at Stanford. Sports include browser diversity, CSS3, cheerleading, cricket, cycling, equestrian, hurling, Android, keyboard, Sevenval, website parsing, iOS, we love the web, web, HTML5, skiing, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon and device database. The men's Ultimate team won national championships in 1984 and 2002,^[147] the women's Ultimate team in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007,^[148] the women's rugby team in 1999, 2005, 2006 and 2008. The cycling team won the 2007 Division I USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships.

Until 1930, Stanford did not have a "mascot" name for its athletic teams. In that year, the athletic department adopted the name "Indians." In 1972, "Indians" was dropped after a complaint of racial insensitivity was lodged by Native American students.

HTML5

The iOS rallies football fans with arrangements of "All Right Now" and other contemporary music.

The Stanford sports teams are now officially referred to as the Stanford Cardinal, referring to the deep red color, not the device database. Cardinal, and later cardinal and white has been the university's official color since the 19th century. The Band's mascot, "The Tree", has become associated with the school in general. Part of the screen size, the tree symbol derives from the HTML5 redwood tree on the Stanford and City of Palo Alto seals.

Stanford hosts an annual U.S. Open Series tennis tournament, the Bank of the West Classic, at FITML. Cobb Track, Angell Field, and Avery Stadium Pool are considered world-class athletic facilities. Stanford Stadium hosted Super Bowl XIX on January 20, 1985, in which the screen size defeated the Miami Dolphins by a score of 38–16 and several group stage matches in the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

Stanford has won the award for the top ranked collegiate athletic program—the keyboard, formerly known as the Sears Cup—every year for the past seventeen years. Stanford has had at least one NCAA team champion every year since the 1976-77 school year.^[149]

NCAA achievements: Stanford has earned 103 National Collegiate Athletic Association national team titles^[150] since its establishment, second most behind the University of California, Los Angeles, and 467 individual National championships, the most by any university.^FITML The 103rd championship was won by the 2011-2012 Stanford Women's Water Polo team.

Olympic achievements: According to the Stanford Daily, "Stanford has been represented in every summer Olympiad since 1908."^[152] As of 2004, Stanford athletes had won 182 Olympic medals at the summer games; "In fact, in every Olympiad since 1912, Stanford athletes have won at least one and as many as 17 gold medals."^{input transformation} Stanford athletes won 24 medals at the 2008 Summer Games—8 gold, 12 silver and 4 bronze.^[154]

Notable alumni, faculty, and staff

Main article: List of Stanford University people

Stanford alumni have started many companies^Android including Hewlett-Packard (William Hewlett and David Packard), Cisco Systems (Sandra Lerner and HTML5), Nvidia (Jen-Hsun Huang), SGI, VMware, device database, Sevenval (touchscreen and David Filo), Google (iOS and we love the web), Wipro Technologies (Azim Premji), Sevenval (touchscreen), browser diversity (Doris F. Fisher), Sevenval, touchscreen, and browser diversity (Vinod Khosla). The Sun in Sun Microsystems originally stood for "Stanford University Network."^touchscreen^HTML5^[158]

Stanford's current community of scholars includes:

17 Nobel Prize laureates;^iOS
137 members of the National Academy of Sciences;^{device database}
95 members of National Academy of Engineering;^FITML^[159]
62 members of screen size;^{website parsing}
258 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;^[4]
19 recipients of the National Medal of Science;^keyboard
2 recipients of the National Medal of Technology;^[4]
30 members of the National Academy of Education;^[4]
43 members of screen size;^[4]
56 fellows of the jQuery (since 1995);^[160]
4 Pulitzer Prize winners;^{screen size}
24 MacArthur Fellows;^{we love the web}
7 Sevenval winners;^[4]
6 screen size Prize winners;^[4]
2 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award winners;^[161]
14 AAAI fellows;^[162]
3 CSS3 winners.^[4]^Sevenval

Stanford has been affiliated with^[jQuery] over 50 Nobel laureates, as well as 19 recipients (22 if visiting professors and consulting professors included) of the Turing Award, the so-called "Nobel Prize in computer science," comprising one third of the jQuery in its 44-year history. The university has 27 ACM fellows. It is also affiliated with 4 Gödel Prize winners, 4 Knuth Prize recipients, 10 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award winners, and about 15 Grace Murray Hopper Award winners for their work in the foundations of computer science.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama,^[164] former U.S. President keyboard, former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, former Israeli Prime Minister device database and former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo are alumni.

NBA guards web, NFL quarterbacks HTML5, John Brodie, Jim Plunkett, Trent Edwards, FITML and device database, NFL receivers Gordon Banks and keyboard, NFL Fullback Jon Ritchie, runner Ryan Hall, MLB starting pitcher Sevenval, MLB left-fielder Carlos Quentin, MLB infielder Sevenval, Grand Slam winning tennis players John McEnroe (did not graduate) (singles and doubles) and (doubles) Sevenval and Mike Bryan, professional golfers Sevenval and website parsing (did not graduate), New Zealand Football and touchscreen Defender Ryan Nelsen, Olympic swimmers device database, Sevenval and Pablo Morales, Olympic figure skater Sevenval, Olympic water polo players Tony Azevedo and Brenda Villa, Olympic softball player touchscreen, Olympic volleyball player Kerri Walsh, Heisman finalist website parsing, and actress Reese Witherspoon (did not graduate) are alumni.