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Notable faculty and alumni[edit]
See also: List of George Mason University people
Faculty[edit]
James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize-winning economist
Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize-winning economist
Gordon Tullock, developed public choice theory
James M. Buchanan, 1986 Nobel Prize winner for Economics
Tyler Cowen, economist, director of the Mercatus Center at Mason and founder of the blog Marginal Revolution
Jack Goldstone, sociologist and political scientist specializing in revolutions; nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; 2014 winner of Guggenheim Award
Brian Krebs, investigative journalist for the Washington Post and founder of KrebsOnSecurity.com
Steven Pearlstein, Pulitzer Prize winner for economics in the Washington Post
Roy Rosenzweig, Fulbright scholar, historian, founded Center for History and New Media
Martin Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize winner for his biography of Robert Oppenheimer
Vernon L. Smith, 2002 Nobel Prize-winning economist.
Louise Shelley, 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Gordon Tullock, a founder of the public choice theory of economics and politics.
Alumni[edit]
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, President of Puntland and Prime Minister of Somalia
Anousheh Ansari, Iranian-American engineer, co-founder of Prodea Systems and the first Muslim woman in space
Justin Bour, Professional Baseball Player with Miami Marlins
Anna E. Cabral, Treasurer of the United States under President George W. Bush
Shawn Camp, baseball player, Toronto Blue Jays
Kathleen L. Casey, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Erden Eruç president and CEO of the non-profit Around-n-Over and the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the globe
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Poet Laureate of Virginia
Hala Gorani, CNN International anchor
David Jolly, Member of the United States House of Representatives
Dayton Moore, general manager, senior VP of the Kansas City Royals
Steve Ricchetti, former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton
Martin Andrew Taylor, former senior executive Corporate VP of Windows Live and MSN, Chief of Staff to Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
Alan Webb, American record holder in the mile
Stanford's List:
Notable faculty and staff[edit]
As of late 2014, Stanford has 2,118 tenure-line faculty, senior fellows, center fellows, and medical center faculty.[5]
Award laureates and scholars[edit]
Stanford's current community of scholars includes:
21 Nobel Prize laureates (official count; 58 affiliates in total);[5]
155 members of the National Academy of Sciences;[5]
105 members of National Academy of Engineering;[5]
66 members of Institute of Medicine;[5]
277 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;[5]
20 recipients of the National Medal of Science;[5]
2 recipients of the National Medal of Technology;[5]
3 recipients of the National Humanities Medal;[5]
50 members of American Philosophical Society;[5]
56 fellows of the American Physics Society (since 1995);[251]
5 Pulitzer Prize winners;[5]
27 MacArthur Fellows;[5]
5 Wolf Foundation Prize winners;[5]
2 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award winners;[252]
14 AAAI fellows;[253]
3 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners.[5][254]
Stanford's faculty and former faculty includes 31 Nobel laureates,[5] 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 awards given 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.
Government and politics[edit]
Professors who have served in government include Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Former Secretary of Energy and Former Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Steven Chu, Former Secretary of Defense William Perry, Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan Lt. General Karl Eikenberry, Former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, Former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors Edward Lazear and Former director of policy planning for the US State Dept. Stephen D. Krasner. George Schultz, Former Secretary of State, Secretary of Labor and Secretary of the Treasury, is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and lectures at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo was a distinguished lecturer from 2007–2009.[255] Siegfried Hecker, director emeritus of Los Alamos National Laboratory, makes frequent visits to North Korea to inspect their nuclear weapons facilities, and co-teaches a class on national security with William Perry. Tenzin Tethong, former prime minister of the Central Tibetan Administration, chairs the university's Tibetan Studies Initiative, and was a candidate for Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile.[256] Former US President Benjamin Harrison was a founding professor at Stanford Law School.
The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies is also home to political theorist Francis Fukuyama, and founding editor of the Journal of Democracy and advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, Larry Diamond.
Humanities and social sciences[edit]
Professor and social psychologist Philip Zimbardo oversaw the Stanford Prison Experiment, and psychologist Lewis Terman developed the Stanford-Binet IQ Test. Albert Bandura conducted the Bobo doll experiment, contributing to social learning theory. Tobias Wolff, best known for his memoir This Boy's Life, is a member of the creative writing faculty. Philosophy Professor Joshua Cohen is a scholar in political science, philosophy, and ethics. History Professor Jack N. Rakove won the Pulitzer Prize for his book on the history of the constitution, the subject of a course he teaches at Stanford. Professor Carl Neumann Degler also won the Pulitzer Prize for History.
In 2012, it was announced that Alexander Nemerov, art historian and chair of the History of Art Department at Yale University, would join the Stanford faculty as part of the University's efforts to increase its presence in the arts.[257]
The economics department and the Hoover Institution have also been home to more than nine Nobel Prize winners in economics, including Kenneth Arrow, Milton Friedman and Gary Becker. Chair of the economics department Jonathan Levin won the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to the leading economist under 40. Economist John B. Taylor served as the Under Secretary of the Treasury for International affairs, and developed the Taylor Rule. Professor Caroline Hoxby is a leading education economist and directs of the Economics of Education Program for the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is married to fellow Rhodes Scholar and Stanford English Professor Blair Hoxby.
Notable alumni[edit]
Stanford alumni have started many companies and, according to Forbes, has produced the second highest number of billionaires of all universities.[258][259][260] Companies founded by Stanford alumni include Hewlett-Packard (William Hewlett and David Packard), Cisco Systems (Sandra Lerner and Leonard Bosack), Nvidia (Jen-Hsun Huang), SGI, VMware, MIPS Technologies, Yahoo! (Chih-Yuan Yang and David Filo), Google (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page), Wipro Technologies (Azim Premji), Nike (Phil Knight), Gap (Doris F. Fisher), Palantir Technologies (Joe Lonsdale and Stephen Cohen), PayPal (Peter Thiel and Elon Musk), Logitech, Instagram, Snapchat, and Sun Microsystems (Vinod Khosla).[261][262][263] Other companies and organizations founded or co-founded by Stanford alumni include the Special Olympics, YouTube (Jawed Karim), LinkedIn (Reid Hoffman), Netflix (Reed Hastings), Yammer (David O. Sacks), Varian Associates, Pandora Radio, Electronic Arts, Trader Joe's, Dolby Laboratories, Capital One, Renren, TechCrunch, IDEO, Kiva, Acumen, Victoria's Secret, Firefox, Match.com, WhatsApp (Brian Acton)[264] and Participant Media.
Stanford alumni have also founded financial institutions such as the brokerage firm Charles Schwab (Charles R. Schwab), venture capital funds Benchmark, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson), Khosla Ventures (Vinod Khosla), and Formation 8 (Joe Lonsdale), private equity funds TPG Capital (James Coulter), Bain Capital (Mitt Romney), Hellman & Friedman and Friedman Fleischer & Lowe (Tully Friedman), and Crestview Partners, and hedge funds Farallon Capital (Tom Steyer) and D.E. Shaw & Co. (David E. Shaw). Many leading venture capitalists are Stanford alumni, including Jim Breyer, Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla, Keith Rabois, Roelof Botha, Brook Byers, Jim Goetz, Bob Kagle, and Peter Fenton, as are financiers Sid Bass and Richard Rainwater and hedge fund manager Andreas Halvorsen.
Stanford-educated executives include former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, Yahoo CEO and president Marissa Mayer, eBay president Jeffrey Skoll, Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes, Google CEO Larry Page, Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Carlos Brito, Broadcom president and CEO Scott McGregor,[265] NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, CEMEX chairman and CEO Lorenzo Zambrano, Bank of America Merrill Lynch COO Thomas Montag, Morgan Stanley CFO Ruth Porat, Reliance Industries chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani, Godrej Industries managing director Nadir Godrej, Dan Siroker founder and CEO of Optimizely, and Infosys CEO and managing director Vishal Sikka.
Former Japanese Prime Ministers Yukio Hatoyama and Taro Aso,[266] former U.S. President Herbert Hoover, former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, former President of Guatemala Jorge Serrano Elias, current President of the Maldives Mohammed Waheed Hassan, former Vice President of Iran Mohammad-Reza Aref, former Honduras President Ricardo Maduro, King Philippe of Belgium, former United States Senate president pro tempore Carl Hayden, former Arizona governor, supreme court chief justice, and United States Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland, and the current U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker are alumni. U.S. President John F. Kennedy attended Stanford without graduating, as did the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney. Former Ghanaian President John Atta Mills earned his J.D. as a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford Law School.[267] U.S. Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer and former Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and William Rehnquist are also alumni.
Supreme Court Justice-nominee Sandra Day O'Connor (B.A. '50, J.D. '53) talks with President Ronald Reagan outside the White House, July 15, 1981.
Other alumni in politics include UN Ambassador Susan Rice, former Secretary of Defense and current Stanford professor William Perry, former US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual, Eileen Donahoe, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council, William Kennard, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Michael McFaul, US Ambassador to Russia, and current US Senators Dianne Feinstein, Max Baucus, Jeff Bingaman, Jeff Merkley, Ron Wyden and Cory Booker, and Representatives Xavier Becerra, Judy Biggert, Zoe Lofgren, Adam Schiff, Jim Sensenbrenner, and David Wu. Former U.S. Senators Frank Church (Idaho) and Kent Conrad (North Dakota) also attended Stanford. Chelsea Clinton attended Stanford while her father was President, and met her future husband while attending.[268][269]
Eighteen Stanford graduates including Sally Ride and Mae Jemison have served as astronauts. Jeff Cooper, Richard D. Hearney, and Charles A. Ott, Jr. had notable military careers.
NBA guards Landry Fields and Brevin Knight, NBA centers Brook Lopez, Robin Lopez and Rich Kelley, NFL quarterbacks Frankie Albert, John Brodie, Jim Plunkett, John Elway and Andrew Luck, NFL receivers James Lofton, Tony Hill, Gene Washington, Gordon Banks, Ed McCaffrey, Chris Walsh and Doug Baldwin, NFL offensive linemen Pat Donovan, Bruno Banducci, Bob Whitfield, Blaine Nye, NFL running backs Ernie Nevers, Darrin Nelson, Hugh Gallarneau, Jon Ritchie, Scott Laidlaw, NFL defensive backs John Lynch, Richard Sherman, Benny Barnes, NFL defensive lineman Paul Wiggin, NFL linebacker David Wyman, runner Ryan Hall, MLB starting pitcher Mike Mussina, MLB outfielders Sam Fuld and Carlos Quentin, MLB infielder Jed Lowrie, MLB catcher Bruce Robinson, Grand Slam winning tennis players John McEnroe (did not graduate) (singles and doubles), Roscoe Tanner (singles), and Bob and Mike Bryan (doubles), professional golfers Michelle Wie, Tom Watson and Tiger Woods (did not graduate), former New Zealand international and Queens Park Rangers soccer defender Ryan Nelsen, Olympic swimmers Jenny Thompson, Summer Sanders and Pablo Morales, Olympic figure skater Debi Thomas, Olympic gymnast Amy Chow, Olympic and World Cup soccer players Julie Foudy, Sarah Rafanelli, Kelley O'Hara, Christen Press, Nicole Barnhart, and Rachel Buehler, Olympic water polo players Tony Azevedo and Brenda Villa, Olympic softball player Jessica Mendoza, Olympic beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings, Olympic indoor volleyball player Logan Tom, and Heisman finalist Toby Gerhart are alumni.
In the field of entertainment, Sigourney Weaver, Ted Koppel, Ben Savage, Tablo, Rachel Maddow, and Jidenna are graduates. Jay Roach, director of the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents films and Game Change is an alum. Actor Jack Palance attended and left just one credit short of graduation; the University later awarded him a drama degree.[270] Reese Witherspoon attended Stanford for one year before starting her film career. Actress Jennifer Connelly dropped out to resume her acting career.[271] Alexander Payne wrote and directed such films as Sideways, The Descendants, and About Schmidt. Alum David Chase, a seven-time Emmy Award winner, is the creator and writer of The Sopranos.[272]
John Steinbeck, author of Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, attended Stanford for five years but did not receive a degree. Ken Kesey studied creative writing at Stanford, and began the manuscript of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest while attending. Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove, studied for two years at Stanford on the Stegner Fellowship. Michael Cunningham author of The Hours attended as did Jeffrey Eugenides, who wrote Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. N. Scott Momaday is credited as a leader in bringing Native American fiction into mainstream American literature. U.S. Poet Laureates Robert Pinsky and Robert Hass were classmates while attaining their Ph.D.s at Stanford, and another Poet Laureate, Philip Levine, studied poetry at Stanford. Author Marta Acosta also attended Stanford.
Yale Presidents Peter Salovey and Rick Levin and former Harvard President Derek Bok each earned a bachelor's degree at Stanford, and MIT President L. Rafael Reif and former Caltech President Jean-Lou Chameau earned their PhDs there. Harvard Provost Alan M. Garber earned his M.D. from Stanford Medical School. Other alumni who became university leaders include former University of California system President Clark Kerr, former Johns Hopkins President William Brody, former Brown University President Vartan Gregorian, former Nanyang Technological University President Su Guaning, National Taiwan University President Lee Si-Chen, Occidental College President Jonathan Veitch, Boston College President William P. Leahy, and SUTD President Thomas L. Magnanti.
Eight Stanford alumni have won the Nobel Prize.[273][272] As of 2014, 114 Stanford students have been named Rhodes Scholars.[274]
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