Obituaries
Memorial service to be held May 15 for Laudan Nabizadeh Fariborz
Laudan Nabizadeh Fariborz, who joined Stanford Management Company in 2007, earned a bachelor's degree and an MBA at Stanford.
Cecilia Preciado Burciaga, advocate for Latino students, dead at 67
Burciaga, who worked at Stanford for 20 years, took the helm as assistant to the president and provost for Chicano affairs in 1974.
April 19 memorial service scheduled for Jon C. Sandelin
Sandelin, a senior licensing associate at the Office of Technology Licensing for nearly two decades, was responsible for licensing all forms of intellectual property, including inventions, computer software and university trademarks.
Joseph Frank, Stanford's acclaimed Dostoevsky biographer, dies at 94
Joseph Frank, a professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literatures at Stanford, is remembered for his remarkable Dostoevsky biography series and a lifelong commitment to teaching.
Stanford professor, leading Miltonist Martin Evans dies at 78
Evans' influential books led many to see how profoundly John Milton shaped Western culture, and his teaching created decades of Miltonists.
2.8.13
Harry Press, Stanford alum, former staffer and newspaperman, dies at 93
Leave it to Harry Press to write his own obituary. He described himself as a "hack rewriteman," but he was really an indefatigable newspaperman.
Lindi Press, alumna, 2003 Amy J. Blue Award winner, dead at 66
Press retired from Stanford last summer after working at Stanford for three decades, including 11 years as academic committee coordinator in the Registrar's Office. She earned a bachelor's degree in English and a Master of Liberal Arts degree at Stanford.
12.21.12
Stanford operations research expert Arthur Veinott dies at 78
Arthur "Pete" Veinott was a professor of management science and engineering who made major contributions to the theory of operations research.
Bill Moggridge, Stanford d.school professor and developer of laptop computer, dies at 69
Bill Moggridge, d.school professor, co-founder of IDEO and designer of the first laptop computer, dies at 69.
9.5.12
Memorial service for Stanford President Emeritus Richard W. Lyman to be held Oct. 2
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 2, in Stanford Memorial Church for Stanford University President Emeritus Richard W. Lyman, who died in May.
