Hundreds of people gathered at Cemex Auditorium on Saturday to honor mathematics Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal, who died in July.
Comprehensive information about medical, dental and vision plans for 2018 is now available. Stanford will offer its free employee-only coverage through Kaiser Permanente in 2018, as it did last year. Rates will increase for employees who choose plans other than Kaiser for employee-only coverage.
German journalist Sylke Tempel taught at Stanford’s Bing Overseas Studies Program in Berlin for over 20 years. She died Oct. 5 after a tree fell on her during a storm in Berlin.
Graham, an energy resources and sedimentary geologist who joined the Stanford faculty in 1980, will begin his new role Nov. 2. He succeeds Dean Pamela Matson, who led the school for 15 years.
Von Russel Eshleman, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, developed methods of studying distant planets with radio waves and oversaw experiments between the Stanford Dish and Pioneer space probes.
After a decade of leadership at Stanford’s largest school, Richard Saller plans to leave the H&S deanship at the end of the academic year and return to full-time teaching. Provost Persis Drell will shortly appoint a search committee and begin an international search for his successor.
William Miller was a scholar of Silicon Valley who shared his knowledge of entrepreneurship throughout the world and particularly in Asia. He also was one of the early contributors to the application of computation in math, science and business.
