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Rick Banks, '87, MA '87, Reynolds Professor of Law, Stanford Law School.
Rick Banks, '87, MA '87, Reynolds Professor of Law, Stanford Law School.
An esteemed voice on a wide range of topics related to equality, R. Richard Banks focuses on the use of race in public policy debates ranging from the adoption of children to educational testing criteria in college admissions. He is especially interested in the rhetoric of civil rights discourse and the ways in which attachments to theories of color blindness might impede progress toward substantive racial equality. Before attending law school, Professor Banks was an extensively published freelance journalist, writing articles for the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, among other publications. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1998, Professor Banks was the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School and an attorney with the firm O'Melveny and Myers. He was a law clerk to Judge Barrington D. Parker, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. |
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Coit D. Blacker, Olivier Nomellini Professor in International Studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences, senior fellow and director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and co-chair of the International Initiative at Stanford.
Coit D. Blacker, Olivier Nomellini Professorship in International Studies, senior fellow and director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
During the first Clinton administration, Blacker served as special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and as senior director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council. At the council, he oversaw the implementation of U.S. policy toward Russia and the newly independent states, while also serving as principal staff assistant to the president and the national security advisor on matters relating to the former Soviet Union. From 1998 to 2003, Blacker served as co-director of the Aspen Institute's U.S.-Russia Dialogue, which twice each year brings together prominent U.S. and Russian specialists on foreign and defense policy for discussion and review of critical issues in U.S.-Russian relations. In 1993 Blacker was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Russian Academy of Sciences for his work on U.S.-Russian relations. |
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Eavan Boland, Lane Director of the Stanford Creative Writing Program, Mabury and Mabury Knapp Professor in Humanities.
Eavan Boland, Lane Director of the Stanford Creative Writing Program, Mabury and Mabury Knapp Professor in Humanities.
A poet and essayist, Eavan Boland has published nine volumes of poetry, including Against Love Poetry, The Lost Land, In a Time of Violence and An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967—87. She has received the Lannan Award for Poetry and has published a volume of prose called Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Threepenny Review, The Kenyon Review and The American Poetry Review. Considered one of the foremost poets in the English-speaking world, Boland has taught at Stanford since 1995. Her research interests include women and poetry, Irish literature and computer technology. Her most recent publications are New Collected Poems and The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology which she co-edited with Edward Hirsch. |
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Gordon Chang, MA '72, PhD '87, professor of history.
Gordon Chang, MA '72, PhD '87, professor of history.
Professor Gordon H. Chang has been at Stanford since 1991 and received his master's and doctoral degrees from Stanford. A member of the department of history, he is also associated with East Asian studies, American studies, international relations and comparative studies in race and ethnicity. He is the author of many books and articles on United States–East Asia relations and Asian American history. His most recent publication is Asian American Art: A History, 1850–1970. |
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Darrell Duffie, PhD '84, Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Darrell Duffie, PhD '84, Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Darrell Duffie's research interests include over-the-counter market financial modeling, financial risk management, credit risk, valuation of defaultable securities, valuation and hedging of derivative securities, term structure of interest rate modeling, financial innovation, and security design. Recently, Duffie has focused on how capital moves from one segment of asset markets to another, and the implications of imperfect trading opportunities for asset price behavior, especially in over-the-counter markets. Duffie has been a member of the finance faculty at Stanford since 1984. He is the president-elect of The American Finance Association, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of Moody's Academic Research Committee, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently on the editorial boards of Econometrica and The Journal of Financial Economics, among other journals. |
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David Evans, '03, MS '09, (Stanford Program in Design), Teaching Assistant at the Product Realization Lab.
David Evans, '03, MS '09, (Stanford Program in Design), Teaching Assistant at the Product Realization Lab.
Dave Evans returned to Stanford to pursue a master's in design after several years in industry. He teaches the integration of design, manufacturing and the self in the Product Realization Lab, Stanford's student machine shop. Evans delves into the creation of wonderful things for his master's thesis, combining a passion for innovation and creativity with years of experience at half a dozen prominent design and engineering firms. Having worked on just about everything from iPods to nuclear submarines, he is able to use a wide array of professional experiences to address problems. Dave prefers to collaborate with diverse groups of people, using design to synthesize disparate perspectives into coherent visions that are grounded in pragmatic expertise. He specializes in taking amorphous ideas, pushing their boundaries, then bringing them into reality. |
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Andrea Goldsmith, professor of electrical engineering.
Andrea Goldsmith, professor of electrical engineering.
Goldsmith's research is to develop novel communication techniques and designs for future wireless systems and networks. Her research includes work on the capacity of wireless channels and networks, wireless communication and information theory, energy-constrained wireless communications, wireless communications for distributed control, and cross-layer design of wireless networks. She received BS, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley, and she has held industry positions at Maxim Technologies and AT&T Bell Laboratories. She is co-founder and CTO of Quantenna Communications, Inc., and the author of the book Wireless Communications and co-author of the book MIMO Wireless Communications. She has received several awards for her research, including the National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lectureship, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Stanford Terman Fellowship, the National Science Foundation CAREER Development Award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. |
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Hank Greely, '74, Johnson Professor of Law and professor, by courtesy, of genetics.
Hank Greely, '74, Johnson Professor of Law and professor, by courtesy, of genetics.
A leading expert and author on the legal, ethical and social issues of health law and the biosciences, Hank Greely specializes in the legal implications of new biomedical technologies, especially those related to genetics, neuroscience or stem cells. He frequently serves as an advisor on California, national and international policy issues; chairs the California Advisory Committee on Human Stem Cell Research; and is a co-director of the Law and Neuroscience Projected, funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Inside the University, Professor Greely chairs the steering committee for the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, directs both the law school's Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics's Program on Stem Cells in Society, and serves on the leadership council for the University's interdisciplinary Bio-X Program. |
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Robert Joss, MBA '67, PhD '70, Knight professor and dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Robert Joss, MBA '67, PhD '70, Knight Professor and Dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Robert Joss became dean of the Graduate School of Business in 1999—the school's first dean from industry in 17 years. He is an evangelist for the development and practice of good management and organizational leadership. Joss believes management is essential to the execution of new ideas and innovative solutions that can improve lives in an increasingly complex and global world. He has overseen a new MBA curriculum and plans for a new Business School campus. Before joining Stanford, Joss was CEO of Westpac Banking Corporation, one of Australia's largest banks, where he was credited with leading a very successful and sustained turnaround in its culture and fortunes. Prior to Westpac, Joss spent 22 years at Wells Fargo Bank, rising to vice chairman. |
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David M. Kennedy, '63, McLachlan Professor of History, co-director of The Bill Lane Center for the West, and senior fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment.
David M. Kennedy, '63, McLachlan Professor of History, co-director of The Bill Lane Center for the West, and senior fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment.
David Kennedy is noted for his integration of economic and cultural analysis with social and political history. His works include the Pulitzer prize–winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945. Among his other books are Over Here: The First World War and American Society, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, which received the Bancroft Prize. He has received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Hoagland Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Lyman Award for Service to the University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of 20th-century United States, American political and social thought, American foreign policy, American literature, and the comparative development of democracy in Europe and America. |
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Scott Klemmer, assistant professor of computer science.
Scott Klemmer, assistant professor of computer science.
Klemmer co-directs the Human-Computer Interaction Group at Stanford. He collaborates with Stanford's Institute of Design and serves on the steering committee of the Symbolic Systems program. He received a dual BA in Art-Semiotics and Computer Science from Brown University, and an MS and PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley. Several of his (along with many colleagues') research systems have had commercial impact: his speech design tool has been used and extended by dozens of companies; a system for vision-based capture of walls inspired current commercial product features; and the handheld augmentation of books fueled advanced development in industry. He is a co-recipient of the UIST 2006 and CHI 2007 Best Paper Awards, 2006 Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship, and 2008 Sloan Fellowship. |
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Larry Kramer, Lang Professor and dean of Stanford Law School.
Larry Kramer, Lang Professor and dean of Stanford Law School.
Considered one of the leading legal scholars in the country, Larry Kramer has contributed path-breaking work in such varied fields as conflict of laws, civil procedure, federalism and its history, and most recently, the role of courts in society. His book, The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review, sparked renewed interest in the ongoing debate about the relationship between the Supreme Court of the United States and politics, and established Kramer as a maverick in the field of constitutional theory and interpretation. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Law Institute. |
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Stephen Krasner, Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, senior fellow of Hoover Institution, senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, former deputy director of FSI and former director of Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.
Stephen Krasner, Stuart Professor of International Relations, senior fellow of the Hoover Institution and senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
From 2004 to 2006 Krasner served as the director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department. In that role, he was a driving force behind foreign assistance reform designed to more effectively target American foreign aid. He was also involved in activities related to the promotion of good governance and democratic institutions around the world. In 2002 he served as director for governance and development at the National Security Council. At Stanford Krasner was the coordinator of CDDRL's Program on Sovereignty. His work has dealt primarily with sovereignty, American foreign policy, and the political determinants of international economic relations. He was also chair of the political science department and served as the editor of International Organization. Before coming to Stanford in 1981 he taught at Harvard University and UCLA. |
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Larry Lessig, Carlsmith Professor of Law.
Larry Lessig, Carlsmith Professor of Law.
Already at the top of the field of constitutional law before he began his intensive focus on the law of cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig has concentrated his scholarship on the problem of how law should govern the exchange of information and ideas in a digital age. He is a leading figure in the United States and internationally in cyberlaw, a field that lies at the previously unexplored intersection of constitutional law and intellectual property law. Professor Lessig is the founder and co-director of the law school's Center for Internet and Society, a board member of the Creative Commons project, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current academic work addresses a kind of “corruption.” |
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Pamela Matson, Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies, senior fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment.
Pamela Matson, Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies, senior fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment.
Pam Matson's research addresses a range of environment and sustainability issues, including the sustainability of agricultural systems; the vulnerability of particular people and places to climate and other changes; the consequences of tropical deforestation on atmosphere, climate and water systems; and the environmental consequences of global change in the nitrogen and carbon cycles. With multi-disciplinary teams of researchers, managers and decision makers, she has developed agricultural approaches that reduce environmental impacts while maintaining livelihoods and human well-being. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, and in 1995 she was selected as a MacArthur Fellow. |
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Ted Mitchell, '78, MA '81, PhD '83, chief executive officer, NewSchools Venture Fund.
Ted Mitchell, '78, MA '81, PhD '83, chief executive officer, NewSchools Venture Fund.
Ted Mitchell assumed the role of CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund in the fall of 2005, after having served on the NewSchools board of directors for seven years. Prior to joining NewSchools, Mitchell was president of Occidental College in Los Angeles. A former deputy to the president at Stanford, dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, and vice chancellor at UCLA, Mitchell has long been active in California and Los Angeles educational reform initiatives. He chaired the Governor's Committee on Educational Excellence, charged with making recommendations to improve California's system of K–12 finance and governance, and is president of the California State Board of Education. He also serves on the boards of a variety of nonprofit education organizations and was a member of the Stanford University Board of Trustees from 1985 to 1990. |
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Paula M. L. Moya, associate professor of English.
Paula M. L. Moya, associate professor of English.
Paula Moya teaches courses in Chicana/o studies, multiethnic literatures, feminist theory, and comparative studies in race and ethnicity. She is the author of Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles and co-editor of Reclaiming Identity and Identity Politics Reconsidered. Current projects include an interdisciplinary volume on race, Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century, and a scholarly study of literature written by women of color in the last three decades of the 20th century. Professor Moya is a recipient of the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. From 2002 to 2005 she was director of the undergraduate program of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, was chair of comparative studies in race and ethnicity major, and was a Stanford fellow from 2003 to 2005. |
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Josiah Ober, Mitsotakis Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and professor of political science and of classics.
Josiah Ober, Mitsotakis Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and professor of political science and of classics.
Josiah Ober divides his time and academic appointment between classics and political science, and has a courtesy appointment in the department of philosophy. He writes and teaches courses on various topics conjoining Greek history, classical philosophy, and political theory and practice. His most recent book was Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens. In addition to his ongoing work on the politics of knowledge and innovation, he is developing a project on the relationship between dispersed and centralized forms of political authority and the emergence of distinctive sets of institutions and moral values. |
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James Patell, Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management, co-director of the Product Realization Network.
James Patell, Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management, co-director of the Product Realization Network.
James Patell's research and teaching interests center on business process and product design, operations management, manufacturing and cost accounting. At Stanford since 1975, Patell is a popular and demanding teacher who has authored numerous articles in accounting. During his tenure as associate dean for academic affairs in the GSB from 1985 to 1991, he redesigned and revitalized the Public Management Program, which focuses on government, nonprofit organizations and public service. He currently serves as co-director of the Product Realization Network at Stanford, a cooperative research and educational program involving the Business School and the Engineering School, together with industrial partners. He is also a founding faculty member of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. In 1998 he received the MBA Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2007 he was awarded both the Robert T. Davis Faculty Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Graduate School of Business and the Miriam Aaron Roland Award for Volunteer Service at Stanford University. |
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Phil Pizzo, Naumann Professor for the Dean of the School of Medicine and professor of pediatrics and of microbiology and immunology.
Phil Pizzo, Naumann Professor for the Dean of the School of Medicine and professor of pediatrics and of microbiology and immunology.
Phil Pizzo has been dean of the Stanford School of Medicine since April 2001. Before joining Stanford, he was the physician-in-chief of Children's Hospital in Boston and chair of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School from 2096 to 2001. Pizzo devoted much of his career to the diagnosis, management, prevention and treatment of childhood cancers and the infectious complications that occur in children and adults whose immune systems are compromised by cancer and AIDS. He and his research team pioneered new treatments for children with HIV infection as well as numerous other innovations in cancer and infectious diseases. He is the author of more than 500 scientific articles and 14 books. He has received numerous awards and honors and is a member of a number of prestigious organizations and societies. |
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James Plummer, MS '67, PhD '71, Terman Dean of the School of Engineering and Fluke Professor of Electrical Engineering.
James Plummer, MS '67, PhD '71, Terman Dean of the School of Engineering and Fluke Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Jim Plummer has been the dean of the School of Engineering since 1999. He joined the faculty in the department of electrical engineering in 1978, and a major focus of his work in the 1980s and '90s was on silicon process modeling. His recent work has focused on nanoscale silicon devices for processing and memory. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the IEEE. He has graduated more than 80 PhD students with whom he has published more than 400 journal papers and conference presentations. As dean, he has emphasized interdisciplinary research focused on meeting grand challenges such as human health and environmental sustainability. |
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Ramón Saldívar, Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities & Sciences and the Milligan Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
Ramón Saldívar, Hoagland Family Professor of Humanities & Sciences and the Milligan Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
Ramón Saldivar's teaching and research focus on literary criticism and literary theory, the history of the novel, 19th- and early 20th-century literary studies, cultural studies, globalization and issues concerning transnationalism, and Chicano and Chicana studies. He is author of Figural Language in the Novel: The Flowers of Speech from Cervantes to Joyce, Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference and, most recently, The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary. Professor Saldívar is a recipient of the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contributions to Undergraduate Education and the Lillian and Thomas B. Rhodes Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He was vice provost for undergraduate education at Stanford University from 1994 to 1999, and was chair of the department of English from 2005 to 2008. |
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Richard Saller, Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, and professor of classics and of history.
Richard Saller, Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, and professor of classics and of history.
Richard Saller came to Stanford from the University of Chicago, where he was provost. Saller's research has concentrated on Roman social and economic history, in particular patronage relations, the family and the imperial economy. He uses literary, legal and epigraphic materials to investigate issues of social hierarchy, gender distinctions and economic production with the aid of current social science theory. Saller is the author of several books, including Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family and Personal Patronage Under the Early Empire. In addition to being dean, he keeps an active teaching schedule. In 2005 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
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Kristine Samuelson, '73, director of the Film and Media Studies Program, professor and chair of the department of art and art history.
Kristine Samuelson, '73, director of the Film and Media Studies Program, professor and chair of the department of art and art history.
An independent producer for 28 years, Kristine Samuelson's credits include Time Has No Sympathy; Arthur and Lillie 2 a.m. Feeding; An Artist's Journey; Wrong Place, Wrong Time; Empire of the Moon; Riding the Tiger; The World As We Know It; El Niño; The Days and The Hours; and I Can See Everything. Her work has been broadcast nationally on PBS and cable networks and has screened at film festivals and venues worldwide. She also created and produced Point 25, a multimedia installation and concert held simultaneously in the United States and Sweden. Her most recent production, An Abundance of Crows, is in postproduction. In addition to a Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, she has received a Bing Teaching Award and the Undergraduate Teaching Award in the Department of Communication. She was named the McNamara Faculty Fellow for 1996—97. |
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Carla Shatz, professor of biological sciences and neurobiology and the director of the Bio-X Program.
Carla Shatz, professor of biological sciences and neurobiology and the director of the Bio-X Program.
Professor Shatz is the new director of Stanford's Bio-X program and conducts research on how our experiences change our brain circuits during early critical periods of learning and development. Her neuroscience research has advanced the understanding of how the eye and the brain become properly connected during early life. She was the first to observe how, during fetal development, the eye tests its connections to the brain's visual processing regions by sending and resending waves of electrical activity through nerve cells across the retina. She has served as the president of the 38,000 member Society for Neuroscience, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. She has received many honors and awards, including the Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievement in Health and Education, and most recently the Gill Prize in Neuroscience from Indiana University. |
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Deborah Stipek, Quillen Dean of the Stanford School of Education.
Deborah Stipek, Quillen Dean of the Stanford School of Education.
Deborah Stipek's scholarship concerns the instructional effects on children's achievement motivation, early childhood education, elementary education and school reform. Stipek also has an interest in policies affecting children and education. She served for five years on the board on children, youth and families at the National Research Council; she was the chair of the National Research Council Committee for Increasing High School Students' Engagement and Motivation to Learn; and she directed the MacArthur Foundation Network on Teaching and Learning. While a professor at UCLA, Stipek served as director of the Corinne Seeds University Elementary School and the Urban Education Studies Center. |
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Kathleen Sullivan, Morrison Professor and former dean of Stanford Law School.
Kathleen Sullivan, Morrison Professor and former dean of Stanford Law School.
A nationally prominent constitutional scholar and author of the nation's leading casebook on constitutional law, Kathleen Sullivan has written widely on freedom of speech, religious liberty, equal protection, federalism and separation of powers, and the role of the Supreme Court. She was the first female dean of any school at Stanford. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the American Philosophical Society. She is also an active appellate litigator who has won such victories as a 2005 Supreme Court decision allowing the interstate direct shipment of wine. She has been named repeatedly to the National Law Journal's list of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America and the Daily Journal's list of the 100 Top Attorneys in California. |
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Buzz Thompson, '73, MBA '75, JD '76, Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment.
Buzz Thompson, '73, MBA '75, JD '76, Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment.
Barton “Buzz” Thompson, Jr., a leading authority on environmental and natural resources law, is one of the founding directors of Stanford's new Woods Institute for the Environment. His research, scholarship and teaching focus on water and biodiversity policies, fisheries management, and market and other alternative solutions to environmental problems. Thompson is chairman of the Resources Legacy Fund and a board member of the Nature Conservancy of California, the American Farmland Trust and the Natural Heritage Institute. He also is a member of the Science Advisory Board for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Thompson was a law clerk to the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, '50, JD '52, of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
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Peter Vitousek, Yeung University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Morrison Professor in Population and Resources Studies in the department of biology, senior fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment and, by courtesy, of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Peter Vitousek, Yeung University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Morrison Professor in Population and Resources Studies in the department of biology, senior fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment and, by courtesy, of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Peter Vitousek's research focuses on ecosystems, including understanding the processes that maintain soil fertility and plant productivity in tropical forests, evaluating interactions between ecosystems and societies in the Pacific (prior to European contact), and using the Hawaiian Islands as a model system to understand how the world works. Vitousek has devoted his career to studying Earth's metabolism and life cycles. He is particularly interested in how forests are altered by people and by the introduction of new plants and animals. |
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Brian Wandell, Stein Family Professor and professor, by courtesy, of electrical engineering and radiology.
Brian Wandell, Stein Family Professor and professor, by courtesy, of electrical engineering and radiology.
After receiving his PhD from UC Irvine, and holding a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, Wandell joined the Stanford faculty in 1979 and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2003. He is chair of psychology, co-chair of Stanford's Initiative on Human Health and a member, by courtesy, of electrical engineering and radiology. Wandell's research group uses diverse methods to understand how we see. Their topics include visual perception, cortical plasticity and reading development in children. For the last 15 years, Wandell's group has developed magnetic resonance methods to measure signals and structures in human visual pathways. Wandell enjoys finding applications of vision science, ranging from improvements in digital imaging devices and algorithms to diagnostic tools that can improve human health. |
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