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Stanford University is making it faster and simpler to appoint, reappoint, and promote faculty by reducing paperwork and decision points in a process that many say has become overly cumbersome. Each year, about 300 Stanford faculty are considered for roles ranging from fixed-term and temporary appointments to longer-lasting decisions, as when granting tenure. These decisions […]
Top ranked Stanford’s stingy defense powered a second-half surge to outlast No. 3 USC, 11-7, on Sunday afternoon to capture the 2025 women’s water polo NCAA Championship. The nation’s only program to have participated at every NCAA Championship since the event’s inception in 2001, Stanford claimed its 10th NCAA title overall and third in four […]
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced 120 newly elected members, including seven Stanford University researchers. Scientists are elected to the NAS by their peers “in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” The NAS provides advice to the United States government on matters related to science, engineering, and health policy. The new members […]
Stanford University has implemented a staff hiring freeze due to uncertainties in federal funding and potential tax hikes on university endowments. Many of the nation’s top schools have also temporarily paused hiring including MIT, University of California, Harvard, Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Notre Dame, University of Washington and more. The National Institutes of […]
John Doerr, Chairman of top Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, has donated over $1.1 billion to launch the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability this fall. This will be Stanford’s first new school in 70 years. The $1.1 billion gift from John and his wife Ann Doerr [photo above (credit: Edward Caldwell)] is the […]
Stanford University is teaming up with Deerfield Management, a New York-based health care investment firm, to create Porter Alliance for Innovative Medicines that will accelerate translational research into clinical therapeutics. Deerfield has committed up to $130 million and additional scientific and operational support to this new collaboration to advance research coming out of Stanford faculty […]
Stanford University announced a 40.1% investment return in its endowment funds for the year ending June 30, 2021. The Merged Pool is the principal investment vehicle for the university’s endowment. Stanford’s performance surpassed the 33.4 percent median return for U.S. college and university endowments for the year, as preliminarily reported by Cambridge Associates, and represented […]