Stanford University Is Consistently Ranked As One of the Best Schools in the Nation Opp Onent S in Both Academics and Athletics

STANFORD BASEBALL 2010 SEASON OUTLOOK COACHING STAFF 2010 PLAYER PROFILES 2009 SEASON REVIEW BASEBALL HISTORY PROFESSIONALS RESULTS/RANKINGS STANFORD UNIVERSITY 2010 OPPONENTS 103 • www.gostanford.com Stanford University Stanford Stanford University is consistently ranked as one of the best schools in the nation in both academics and athletics. ALL MEDIA GUIDE B 2010 BASE STANFORD UNIVERSITY For the Stanford’s on that day, the university was the ▼ Current Perspectives realization of a dream and a fitting tribute to the memory In other ways, the university has changed of their only son, who had died of typhoid fever weeks tremendously on its way to recognition as one of the before his sixteenth birthday. Far from the nation’s center world’s great universities. At the hub of a vital and of culture and unencumbered by tradition or ivy, the new diverse Bay Area, Stanford is less than hour’s drive university drew students from all over the country: many south of San Francisco and just a few minutes north from California; some who followed professors hired of the Silicon Valley, an area dotted with computer and from other colleges and universities; and some simply high technology firms largely spawned by the university’s seeking adventure in the West. Though there were faculty and graduates. On campus, students and faculty Stanford University many difficulties during the first months – housing was enjoy new libraries, modern laboratories, tremendous inadequate, microscopes and books were late in arriving sports and recreation facilities, and comfortable at a Glance from the East – the first year foretold of greatness. As residences. Contemporary sculpture, as well as pieces Jane Stanford wrote in the summer of 1892, “Even our from the Stanford Museum’s extensive collection of On October 1, 1891, the 465 new students fondest hopes have been realized.” sculpture by Auguste Rodin, is placed throughout the campus, providing unexpected pleasures at many turns. who were on hand for opening day ceremonies at ▼ Ideas of “Practical At the Stanford Medical Center, world-renowned for Education” its research, teaching, and patient care, scientists and Leland Stanford Junior University greeted Leland Governor and Mrs. Stanford had come from families of physicians are searching for answers to fundamental modest means and had built their way up through a life of questions about health and disease. Ninety miles and Jane Stanford enthusiastically, with a chant hard work. So it was natural that their first thoughts were down the coast, at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station to establish an institution where young men and women on the Monterey Bay, scientists are working to better they had made up and rehearsed only that morning. could “grapple successfully with the practicalities of life.” As understand the mechanisms of evolution, human their thoughts matured, these ideas of “practical education” development, and ecological systems. Wah-hoo! Wah-hoo! L-S-J-U! Stanford! Its wild and enlarged to the concept of producing cultured and useful The university is organized into seven schools: Earth citizens who were well-prepared for professional success. Sciences, Education, Engineering, the Graduate School of spirited tone symbolized the excitement of this bold Nearly 116 years later, the university still enjoys the Business, Humanities and Sciences, Law and Medicine. In original 8,180 acres (almost 13 square miles) of grassy addition, there are more than 30 interdisciplinary centers, adventure. As a pioneer faculty member recalled, fields, eucalyptus groves, and rolling hills that were the programs, and research laboratories – including the Hoover Stanford’s generous legacy, as well as the Quadrangle of Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; the Institute for “Hope was in every heart, and the presiding spirit of “long corridors with their stately pillars” at the center of International Studies; the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; campus. It is still true, as the philosopher William James and the Stanford Center for the Study of Families, Children freedom prompted us to dare greatly.” said, during his stint as a visiting professor, that the and Youth – where faculty from a wide range of fields bring climate is “so friendly … that every morning wakes one different perspectives to bear on issues and problems. fresh for new amounts of work.” Stanford’s Overseas Studies Program offers students in all fields remarkable opportunities for study abroad, with campuses in Australia, Beijing, Berlin, Cape Town, Florence, Kyoto, Madrid, Moscow, Oxford, Paris, and Santiago. 104 • www.gostanford.com 2010 BASEBALL MEDIA GUIDE STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD BA STANFORD S E B ALL 2010 SEA S ON O UTLOOK COA C HING STAFF PROFILE 2010 PLAYER S ▼ Stanford People Games in Sydney, and 43 Stanford associates competed 2009 SEA By any measure, Stanford’s faculty – which numbers at the 2004 Games in Athens. Intramural and club sports are also popular; over 1,000 students take part in the club S just over 1,800 – is one of the most distinguished ON sports program, while participation in the intramural program R in the nation. As of the June of 2007, the faculty S EVIEW BA E has reached 9,000, with many students active in more than B included 18 Nobel Laureates, four Pulitzer Prize ALL winners, 24 MacArthur Fellows, 21 recipients of the one sport. National Medal of Science, three National Medley of Technology recipients, 228 members of the National ▼ looking ahead Academy of Arts and Sciences, 135 members of the In her address to the Board of Trustees, in 1904, National Academy of Sciences, 83 National Academy Jane Stanford said, “. Let us not be afraid to outgrow of Engineering members, 29 members of the National old thoughts and ways, and dare to think on new lines H I S SS Academy of Education, seven Wolf Foundation Prize as to the future of the work under our care.” TORY PROFE winners, seven winners of the Koret Foundation Prize Her thoughts echo in the words of former Stanford IONAL and three Presidential Medal of Freedom winners. Yet President Gerhard Casper, who has said, “The true S beyond their array of honors, what truly distinguishes admitted finishing in the top 10% of their high school class. university must reinvent itself every day . At Stanford, Stanford faculty is their commitment to sharing Ninety-four Stanford students have been named Rhodes these are days of such reconsideration and fresh support knowledge with their students. The great majority of Scholars, 74 have been selected Marshall Award winners, for our fundamental tasks – teaching, learning, and professors teach undergraduates both in introductory and 49 have been chosen Truman Scholars. Nearly 90 research.” lecture classes and in small advanced seminars. percent of graduating seniors plan to attend graduate or Currently 14881 students, of which 6689 are professional schools. Stanford students also shine in a undergraduates, live and study on campus. A little more tremendous array of activities outside the classroom – from than 40 percent come from California, but all 50 states student government to music, theater, and journalism. and approximately 68 countries are represented as Through the Haas Center for Public Service, students U.S. News and World R well. Among undergraduates, approximately 55 percent participate in many community service activities, such as Report 2009 top 10 E S are African American, Asian American, International, tutoring programs for children in nearby East Palo Alto, the Rankings of National ULT S Mexican American, Native Hunger Project, and the Arbor Free Clinic. /RANKING American, Native Hawaiian In the athletic arena, Stanford students have universities or Other Hispanic in enjoyed tremendous success as well. Stanford 1. Harvard S ethnicity. Like the faculty, fields teams in 36 Division I varsity sports the Stanford student (15 men, 20 women, 1 co-ed). Of Stanford’s 2. Princeton 3. Yale body is distinguished. 95 NCAA titles (107 national), 55 have been STANFORD Approximately 10 students captured since 1990, by far the most in the 4. StANFORD nation. Thirty-eight of Stanford’s athletes and apply to Stanford for every Massachusetts Institute of Technology place in the freshman coaches participated win the 1992 Olympics in U 6. Cal Tech NIVER class with 89% of those Barcelona, 49 competed in Atlanta at the 1996 Pennsylvania S Games, 34 represented Stanford at the 2000 ITY 2010 8. Columbia 9. Duke University of Chicago OPP ONENT S 2010 BASEBALL MEDIA GUIDE www.gostanford.com • 105 UNIVERSITY LEADERS John John Ellen Hennessy Etchemendy Markman Stanford University Stanford University Stanford President Provost Athletics Faculty Representative John L. Hennessy joined Stanford’s faculty John Etchemendy was named Stanford’s Provost Ellen M. Markman, the Lewis M. Terman Professor in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical on September 1, 2000. He has been a faculty of Psychology, serves as Stanford’s faculty athletic engineering. He rose through the academic ranks member in the Department of Philosophy since 1983 representative. to full professorship in 1986 and was the inaugural after receiving his doctorate at Stanford in 1982. He After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical is also a faculty member of the Symbolic Systems Pennsylvania in 1973, she was on the faculty at Engineering and Computer Science from 1987 to Program and a senior researcher at the Center for the University of Illinois before joining the Stanford 2004. the Study of Language and Information. faculty in 1975. Professor Markman was chair of From 1983 to 1993, Dr. Hennessy was director Etchemendy, whose research interests include the Department of Psychology from 1994-1997 and of the Computer Systems Laboratory, a research logic, semantics and the philosophy of language, has served as Cognizant Dean for the Social Sciences and teaching center operated by the Departments challenged orthodox views on the central notions from 1998-2000.

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