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The Jerry & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building (Y2E2), first of four buildings in the new Science and Engineering Quad (SEQ). The Stanford Challenge School of Engineering The Stanford Challenge: Imagining the Future Steering Committee I am pleased to introduce this inaugural issue of the Stanford Pictured above, the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment During The Stanford Challenge, which runs Engineering Benefactor, a newsletter for alumni and friends of and Energy Building (Y2E2) was the first building in the SEQ through 2011, a group of our dedicated the School of Engineering. Modeled on a similar university-wide to be completed. Next up, the Jen-Hsun School of publication, the Stanford Engineering Benefactor Engineering Center, currently under construction, will replace the alumni and friends have committed their celebrates some of the inspiring Terman Engineering Center as the nexus of the school—housing time, expertise, and resources to assure partnerships that have emerged here classrooms, auditoriums, spaces where faculty and students can at the school during The Stanford gather, and a new state-of-the-art engineering library designed to that Stanford Engineering will reach its Challenge. support our quickly evolving research programs. campaign goals. We are extremely grateful As President Hennessy noted We have also broken ground on the Center for Nanoscale for the efforts of the Steering Committee, at the start of The Stanford Science and Technology, which will be the new home of the Challenge nearly two years Ginzton laboratory. Its laboratories will complement the nearby which includes: ago, the university’s mission in Nanocharacterization and Nanofabrication facilities. The fourth Douglas J. Mackenzie, MS ’82, Chairman this endeavor is nothing short of and final building in the SEQ, which will house Bioengineering extraordinary: to change the world. and Chemical Engineering, is scheduled to commence construction Yogen K. Dalal, MS ’73, PhD ’77 Stanford Engineering’s part in the in 2010. Michael L. Goguen, MS ’91 campaign is to seek solutions to important global problems and to educate the leaders who will turn great ideas People Joseph W. Goodman, MS ’60, PhD ’63 into real changes that will make the world a better place. To make sure that our world-class facilities are occupied by equally outstanding personnel, the second area of our focus is on Fredric W. Harman, BS ’82, MS ’83 During the campaign, Stanford Engineering’s four areas of strategic people, both graduate students and faculty. Without a doubt, the focus continue to be: Bioengineering, Energy and Environment, Hong-Seh Lim, MS ’83, MS ’87, PhD ’87 remarkable achievements that have emerged from the Stanford Information Technology, and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology School of Engineering over the past 50 years testify to the fact that Burton J. McMurtry, MS ’59, PhD ’62 (see page 2, inside). Within these areas, our funding priorities are the the recipe for turning scientific innovation into vital technologies people who will make a difference, and the facilities that will enable Kenneth Oshman, MS ’65, PhD ’68 is only as good as the talented faculty and students who have them to do so. perfected it. Ajay B. Shah, MS ’82 Places Our goal during The Stanford Challenge is to provide support for Harold A. Wagner, BS ’57 A major goal of The Stanford Challenge is to give faculty and students 50 more graduate fellowships and ten new faculty positions. John L. Walecka, BS ’81, MS ’83 the facilities they need to make the next great breakthroughs. In the School of Engineering, this means finishing the process begun ten Partnership years ago with the Packard (EE) and Gates (CS) buildings. Within As you will read inside, enthusiasm and support for our endeavors three to five years, after the completion of the Panama corridor have already come from a variety of sources, from non-alumni who renovations and the Science and Engineering Quad (SEQ), it really are interested in bringing students from their home country to will be the case that all of our departments are housed in facilities Stanford, to professors and their former students joining forces, to enabling 21st-century research and teaching. non-engineering grads who have embraced President Hennessy’s call to respond to the university’s highest priorities. This outpouring The SEQ is a sign of Stanford’s commitment to multidisciplinary to date has been extraordinary, as have been all of the gifts that problem solving. When completed, it will feature a remarkable space does not permit us to feature in these pages. community of more than 1,700 faculty, staff, and students, previously dispersed across campus, as well as the larger community that will Nearly halfway through The Stanford Challenge, we have made gravitate to the quad’s shared spaces and labs. The SEQ will bring great strides towards our objectives. But there is still significant together people from engineering, medicine, and the natural and work to be done, requiring an equal share of dedication from all social sciences, enabling them to work together as never before. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Stanford School of Engineering Strategic Priorities

During The Stanford Challenge, Stanford Engineering will continue to focus on four strategic priority areas identified by Dean Jim Plummer. Within these, the dean’s highest objective is raising support for buildings, professorships, and graduate fellowships.

Bioengineering — A fusion of engineering and the life sciences promises new discoveries, technologies, and therapies to improve human health and the environment.

Environment and Energy — Meeting the needs of a growing world population in an environmentally sustainable way is a major challenge of the 21st century.

Information Technology — Hardware, software, and communications are the pillars of information technology. Continuing research in these fields ranges from basic science through materials and devices to systems and applications.

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology — Advancing the science and technology of very small structures holds vast opportunities for research and application development.

From left: Eric , PhD ’99, CEO, Brion Technologies; Fabian Pease, The William Ayer Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chairman of the Technical Advisory Board, Brion Technologies; Jun , PhD ’96, President and CTO, Brion Technologies; and Yen- , MS ’93, PhD ’96, Senior Director of Engineering, Brion Technologies. Faculty Mentor Continues to Advise Former Students

A start-up sometimes turns to its “technical advisor” for much more Chen agrees. was a student in Pease’s lab at the same time as Ye. We attract the than technical advice. Fabian Pease, the William Ayer Professor After leaving Stanford, Chen had a successful career on Wall Street, of Electrical Engineering, once found himself playing brand which he gave up to become the CEO of Brion. But he knows how very best, the very consultant. difficult it can be for foreign students to reach the first rung on the career ladder. A former student, Jun Ye, PhD ’96, approached Pease with a brightest people product idea to improve semiconductor design and manufacturing, “The cost of living and education in the U.S. sometimes can be inspired by research the two had conducted at Stanford. He even prohibitively expensive for people coming from an emerging economy,” from abroad, had a company name: Bricore. Pease liked the idea but did not like he says. “Having fellowships is definitely helpful to those people.” the name “Bricore.” Pease says Chen and Ye were “two of my very best students.” That’s but we shouldn’t “I said, ‘That’s not a catchy name,’” Pease recalls. “‘It sounds like high praise coming from someone like Pease, whose distinguished detergent.’” career includes pioneering work on the scanning electron microscope and large-scale integrated circuits. take it as a given Ye and the founding team had a rethink. Ye, who is also a , had given his newborn son the name Brion, a neologism that Pease also happens to be in charge of graduate admissions for the that we’re always combines “bright” and “-on”. (In , “-on” is often used as the Department of Electrical Engineering. He says that demand to get into suffix for particle names, such as “electron”). The founders decided the School remains high — about 1,500 applications for 200 spots each going to do so. it would make a good name for the company, since it suggested year — but that competition for top students increases all the time. “a shining and cheerful new being,” as Ye puts it. He adds that in This is true, he adds, not just from Stanford’s traditional U.S. rivals but Chinese culture newborn babies are considered an auspicious sign also from new contenders such as Chinese universities, which receive for launching a new business. major support from the Chinese government and are determined to become world-class institutions. Pease notes that, even now, about half The name also seemed appropriate for a new company in a field the grad students admitted to the School of Engineering choose to go that had found better ways to work with in designing and elsewhere. printing silicon chips. The founders had devised clever technology to quickly identify and correct potential problems with incredibly “We attract the very best, the very brightest people from abroad, but complex designs — the chips had structures even smaller than the we shouldn’t take it as a given that we’re always going to do so,” he says. wavelength of light used to create them — before the chips were That’s why he thinks gifts such as the Brion Founders Fellowship are actually printed. critical. “We’re very lucky to have all these overseas students eager to come, but if we can’t find the money, there’s no way they can afford to Exactly a month after Ye’s son was born, the company, with Pease come to Stanford.” on board, had its first meeting with investors. Brion Technologies officially launched in September 2002 with $8 million in venture Chen and Ye remain glad they themselves chose Stanford, not least funding. In December of 2006, the company was acquired by a because of the chance to work with Pease, whom they jokingly referred Dutch firm, ASML Holding. to as “the godfather” because of the guidance he gave them both as students and entrepreneurs. Brion’s founders from Stanford, Ye, Eric Chen (PhD ’99), Yenwen Lu (PhD ’96), and Pease, again at Pease’s suggestion, celebrated their “What I got from my grad school education was way more than the success with a gift of $500,000 to the School of Engineering. The subject of my PhD thesis,” Chen says. “I’ve learned probably dean matched the gift one to one to establish the Brion Founders even more from Fabian on how to conduct myself, how to be a good Fellowship Fund, which will support international graduate citizen for the society, how to approach life in general. Those are the students. The company’s founders are from overseas, and Ye says benefits we got from associating ourselves with someone like Fabian they know from experience how crucial financial support can be to Pease.” foreign graduate students. Ye agrees: “All of us former students came back to the Pease group “We all got financial support when we were at Stanford,” Ye says. feeling like we were coming back to our family where we grew up.” “It’s great to be able to make some returns.”

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who believe in the university’s obligation to help create a better world. As our faculty and students have a vital role to play, so do our alumni and friends, whose generosity and support have always made it possible for us to translate the promise of our dreams into practical solutions. Please join us. With your belief in our mission and your partnership, we are sure to succeed. I look forward to sharing more good news with you in subsequent issues of the Stanford Engineering Benefactor and, as always, I thank you for your past and ongoing support of our efforts to do extraordinary things.

James D. Plummer The Frederick Emmons Terman Dean of the School of Engineering The John M. Fluke Professor in Electrical Engineering MS ’67, PhD ’71

Vance, MS ’69, PhD ’74, and Arlene Coffman have endowed four faculty scholar chairs.

Rising Faculty Stars Get Boost from Aerospace Veteran and Wife To remain a top-flight institution, the School of Engineering has The Coffmans established their four faculty scholar chairs through Coffman Faculty ScholarS to do more than just attract the best faculty to the school: It also a gift that was contributed in part by Lockheed Martin, in honor has to keep them. Ironically, nurturing the most promising young of their chairman. The School of Engineering matched the gift faculty members makes them that much more attractive to other one to one. universities, increasing the chances they could be lured away. “The idea of matching funds for gifts like the one Arlene and I That’s why funding for faculty scholar chairs is so important, and gave is a real interesting way to get leverage out of donations,” says why the school has made endowing these chairs a top priority Coffman. “The focus tends then to go to where people who are during The Stanford Challenge. These chairs are awarded to giving want it to go. That’s exciting to me.” key faculty to encourage research and teaching in areas critical The inaugural Vance D. and Arlene C. Coffman Faculty Scholars to the school. Formerly awarded to up-and-coming faculty, they are Sanjay Lall, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics; now go to faculty who’ve recently Michael McGehee, associate professor been awarded tenure. The honor Sanjay Lall, Associate Michael McGehee, of materials science and engineering; supports the faculty member for Professor, Aeronautics and Associate Professor, Sebastian Thrun, professor of computer up to three years, paying part of his The idea of matching Astronautics; Electrical Materials Science and science and electrical engineering; and or her salary as well as a $25,000 Engineering by courtesy Engineering; Director, Center Claire Tomlin, professor of aeronautics stipend. for Advanced Molecular funds for gifts...is a and astronautics. Their research interests Photovoltaics Vance Coffman, MS ’69, PhD include organic solar cells, control of air ’74, and his wife, Arlene, certainly traffic and other complex systems, and recognize the value of faculty real interesting way robotics and artificial intelligence. The scholar chairs: They’ve endowed many awards their work has generated four of them. to get leverage out of so far include Claire Tomlin’s 2006 receipt of a MacArthur Fellowship, the “My belief is that most organizations so-called “genius award.” function because of the people in donations. them,” he says. Offering faculty Coffman says he supports scholars such scholar chairs is a way to “encourage as these because he wants others to have bright younger people to take on the mantle of professorships, and the benefit of the “wonderful education” he received at the School [to encourage] those working toward full professorships. If they of Engineering. He adds that he admires the way the school Sebastian Thrun, Claire Tomlin, Professor, get interested early in life, I think you have a lot better chance of constantly broadens its horizons to include whole new fields of Professor, Computer Aeronautics and having great faculty members later.” study, going far beyond what the layperson might imagine in an Science and Electrical Astronautics; Electrical engineering education. Nurturing young talent is something Coffman knows a thing or two Engineering; Director, Engineering by courtesy about. He spent 37 years at Lockheed Martin, with responsibilities “Look at our ability to supply water to major cities, to launch Artificial Intelligence; that included leading the divisions behind the successful launch vehicles to the moon and Mars,” he says. “These are great Director, DARPA Grand of the Hubble Telescope, the MILSTAR satellite communication accomplishments, and the human species benefits from them in Challenge system for the U.S. military, and Lockheed’s work on the Iridium untold ways. Sometimes we don’t know how they will contribute, satellite communication network. He became CEO of Lockheed in but [they] eventually lead to a better life for us all.” 1997 and its chairman the year after. During his tenure, Lockheed won the Joint Strike Fighter contract, the largest Department of Defense contract ever awarded.

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2 Dean’s Circle Luncheon 1 Stanford Engineering’s Dean’s Circle event was held on May 27 in the Vidalakis Dining Room at the Schwab Center. Dean Jim Plummer and computer science professor Ron Fedkiw 6 spoke at the event. The Dean’s Circle includes donors to the school who have given $10,00 or more during a fiscal year.

Reunion 2007

2 More than 700 Stanford Engineering Alumni gathered last fall 1 for the first-ever all-school SoE reunion, which included a Friday night reception between the Hewlett and Packard buildings. Reunion 2008 is scheduled for October 10 and 11, and will feature the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

Aeronautics and Astronautics 50th Anniversary Celebration 3 Held May 8 –10, this special Symposium and Reunion celebrated the 50th anniversary of the department. The two-day program featured lab tours, poster sessions, lectures by faculty 3 9 and AeroAstro alumni, and a special reception and dinner on Friday night.

Eday 4 Over 600 alumni and families came to Stanford for our ninth annual EDAY event, held on July 12. This year’s program, “Robots, Racers & Rockets,” featured faculty, students, and alumni showcasing their engineering innovations in robotics, astronautics, and transportation.

Powell Foundation Visit

5 The Powell Foundation’s bi-annual visit to campus in May 6 featured a full day of faculty speakers and a tour of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka the d.school).

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5 Fellowship Reception 6 The 2008 fellowship reception was held on April 10 in the social entry of the Y2E2 building. This annual event is an opportunity for donors and recipients to meet in an informal setting. Dean Plummer and Russ Altman, bioengineering professor, were the featured speakers.

Leading

9 7 At the Leading Matters Hong event on April 19, more than 250 alumni, parents, and friends turned out to hear President Hennessy, deans, and faculty members share their bold visions for Stanford in the 21st century. Pictured here is Stanford Engineering Dean Jim Plummer, MS ’67, PhD ’71, along with (from left) GSB Dean Robert Joss, MBA ’67, PhD ’70; Professor Tom Byers; and Professor Stefanos A. Zenios. The panel’s topic: The Stanford Way: Turning the Problems of the 21st Century into Entrepreneurial Opportunities.

Tesla Motors Event 4 8 A small but excited group of Stanford Engineering friends was invited on June 13 for a sneak peak at the yet-to-be-released Tesla Roadster. Guests mingled with Tesla representatives and toured the Tesla showroom and factory. Two lucky guests were treated to rides in the roadster.

Next Generation Lab Tours 9 On June 27, a group of alumni and their high-school-aged children participated in the inaugural Next Generation Lab Tours event. Parents and high-schoolers were divided into groups, each with its own student tour leader, who described undergraduate life at Stanford. The groups toured six different labs, in rotation. The tours were followed by a question and answer session. 8

givingtostanford.stanford.edu 5 Enlight Foundation Sparks a Bright Future for Chinese Students

Philanthropists Yongping Duan and Xin were educated in , and neither of them studied at Stanford. But both appreciate the value — and cost — of a Stanford education. “We had free tuition when we went to college, but now these things have changed,” says Liu. “We understand financial aid, how critical it is. Stanford is doing a great job extending more and more financial aid to more and more students. It’s been a very positive experience working with Stanford through the matching-fund program.” Through their Enlight Foundation, in addition to an undergraduate scholarship, the couple has given the School of Engineering $500,000 to establish a graduate fellowship for Chinese students. The gift is being matched one to one by Dean Jim Plummer. New graduate fellowships are a major priority for the School of Engineering during The Stanford Challenge. Duan, now in his mid-40s, was an entrepreneur in southern China starting in the late 1980’s. He founded a pair of consumer-electronics companies, Subor and BBK, that have become two of the best-known brands in China. Liu, his wife, worked for a dozen years as a journalist, including three years in some of the poorer parts of rural China. The couple now lives in Palo Alto but is devoted to helping Chinese students with their education, both back home and in the United States, through scholarships and fellowships. “The kids now in China, the talent is just amazing,” Liu says. “They have many more resources to learn English and get to know the world, so when they come here they obviously know much more than when we came. Even without the help, I’m sure they’d come in some way. But we think our scholarship and fellowship will help make their experience in the United States more enjoyable. They can spend more time getting to know their colleagues instead of having to work in restaurants.” Xin Liu and Yongping Duan

Professor Emeritus Cal Quate, MS ’47, PhD ’50 (left) has been honored through a gift from former student Don Caddes, MS ’62, PhD ’67. Nano Center Gift Honors Giant in the Study of the Miniscule

The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, slated to Since graduating, Caddes’s claims to fame in other arenas include open in the fall of 2009 as part of the SEQ, promises Center for executive positions in half a dozen medical-device start-ups, one Nanoscale Science and Technology, slated to open in the fall of of which developed a now-ubiquitous intravenous pump. He 2009, promises to keep Stanford a big name in the study of the also spent eight years as president and chief operating officer very small. of Accuray, manufacturers of the CyberKnife, a noninvasive radiosurgery robot invented by John R. Adler, Jr., a professor of Stanford has been a world leader in nanoscale research ever since neurosurgery at Stanford. Calvin Quate, the Leland T. Edwards Professor of Engineering and of Applied Physics (Emeritus), helped create the field as a Caddes’s career has made him keenly aware of the importance of co-inventor of the atomic force microscope two decades ago. cutting-edge research of the kind conducted all around him when Able to resolve objects the size of an he was a student at Stanford’s atom, the device is now used around Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory. the world — and even beyond, as a “He’s an inspiring guy… The Nano Center will be tool in space exploration. modeled after the Ginzton Lab, renowned over the last 50 years So when Don Caddes, MS ’62, PhD the anthesis of the lonely for a seemingly endless flood of ’67, and his wife, Sheila, made a innovations in microwave and gift to the new Nano Center, it was radiation technology, , perhaps only fitting they wanted part scientist.” Don Caddes on superconductors, fiber optics, of it to go toward the construction biomedical imaging, and much of a conference facility in honor of Cal Quate, who is known more. Caddes saw making a gift Quate. Caddes had always been to the Nano Center as a way of struck by Quate’s ability to bring perpetuating what he calls “the people together to tackle problems. for sparking collaborations mystique of the Ginzton Lab.” “He’s an inspiring guy,” says Caddes. The Nano Center will enable “He’s the antithesis of the lonely- among fellow scientists. science and technology research scientist image that a lot of laypeople at the nanoscale — a billionth of have. [Research] is about bouncing a meter. Some researchers are even working with and fabricating ideas off each other, inspiring each other. Quate is just a master individual atoms. The center will be used by researchers throughout of that.” the university and has the potential to advance any number of Caddes has known Quate since he was a graduate student in disciplines. Potential applications for the research range from new the latter’s lab four decades ago. Even then Quate was a well- drugs to new semiconductors, from faster DNA sequencing to known scientist, noted for his early work on microwave tubes, better communication networks, from high-efficiency solar cells and Caddes was eager to work with him. to super-strong fibers. “I ended up being his first PhD student to graduate,” says Caddes with a laugh. “That’s my only claim to fame in the research arena.”

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Making a gift to the School of Engineering felt right to them, says Duan, because Stanford “is a neighbor and a good university” and because the couple is excited about the innovative research being spurred by The Stanford Challenge, particularly the green-energy work that will be conducted in the new Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building. Duan is well-known in China both for his business success at a young age, first as an entrepreneur and then as an investor, and, increasingly, for his philanthropy. He has even been called the “Chinese Warren Buffett,” a comparison he says is quite mistaken. “I know something about investment, but my understanding of investment is still far from Warren Buffett’s,” he says. “So I don’t really like that name. It makes me nervous.” Duan does say that Buffett, currently the world’s richest person, is one of his investment heroes. In 2006, Duan won a chance to meet with Buffett through a charity auction hosted by eBay. His winning bid was $620,100, which entitled Duan and his wife to have lunch with the stock-market guru and philanthropist, and to invite six others along. Both Duan and Liu enjoyed the lunch and found Buffett a gracious host with valuable investment advice. But what impressed them most had nothing to do with business. It had to do with their common interest in helping the next generation. “The most valuable advice he gave was about children,” says Liu. “He said the most important job in your life is to be a good parent. And we hope we can do that.” The couple seems under no illusion that raising kids — theirs are ages 6 and 9 — can be as challenging and potentially thankless a job as any business career or philanthropic work. “We’re trying to be their heroes,” Liu says with a laugh. “We don’t think it’s going to happen.”

Al Macovski, PhD ’68, pictured with his wife, Addie, holds more than 150 patents. They have been loyal Stanford donors for years. Seeing Problems in New Ways: the Macovski Professorship

Albert Macovski, PhD ’68, has been called “the most inventive “I guess I wanted to do something that would have a more significant person at Stanford.” impact on society in general, rather than consumer electronics,” he says. That’s a pretty high standard to meet, but there’s certainly a convincing case to be made for Macovski, the Canon USA Macovski has certainly made that impact. He has made important Professor of Engineering (Emeritus). A pioneer in medical imaging, improvements to medical-imaging systems ranging from X-rays Macovski holds more than 150 patents for inventions, most of and ultrasound to computerized axial tomography and magnetic which he developed during his nearly four decades at Stanford. resonance imaging (MRI). One invention, for instance, enables medical professionals to use ultrasound not just to see organs but Macovski and his wife, Addie, have been loyal donors to Stanford to see inside them and analyze their functioning. Another allows for many years. And now they’ve chosen to endow a chair, the Addie MRIs to image the flow of blood in an area of the body based solely and Al Macovski Professorship. Preference for chairholders will on the motion of the blood, not on foreign substances injected into go to faculty in bioengineering or “bioengineering applications.” the body. Macovski is, naturally, particularly interested in supporting the medical-imaging program, which he was instrumental in bringing Macovski’s inventions have also helped greatly reduce the cost to Stanford in 1971. of enormously expensive imaging systems, making them more accessible around the world. Even in retirement, he continues to “Both Addie and I come from very humble surroundings,” conduct research at Stanford on lower-cost MRI machines as well Macovski says, but adds: “I’ve been fortunate enough to get some as heart-imaging systems. significant patent royalty money, and I couldn’t think of a better way to [make a gift to Stanford] than to endow a chair in the He literally wrote the book on the field, as the author of the textbook general area of bioengineering, in the hopes that the program “Medical Imaging Systems.” He and his admirers agree his secret is would continue to flourish.” his ability to take a step back from existing technology and rethink what can be done with it. The cutting-edge field of bioengineering is a key component of The Stanford Challenge. Medical-imaging research specifically is “That was always my way: to invent my way out of problems expected to lead the way to new treatments and even cures for rather than engineer my way out of them,” he says, adding that many illnesses, including cancer. in engineering “there’s more of a tendency to refine rather than to back away and see if there’s a better way to do it.” Macovski has conducted imaging research since earning his undergraduate degree from the City College of New York in This creative approach to problems is something he says he tried 1950. But at first his chosen field was seemingly far removed from to pass on to his students over the years. His wife, Addie, says she medicine: He worked at RCA and SRI International on color was always impressed with his teaching style. Over the years, she television technology, and he holds a patent for the widely used and her husband have grown close to many of his students, some of single-tube color camera. whom are now professors at Stanford themselves. She says that has given them strong bonds with Stanford. After completing his electrical engineering PhD at Stanford, he became increasingly interested in medical applications for imaging “He encouraged students and respected them a in a way that I didn’t technology. In 1972 he was given a then highly unusual joint see generally,” she says. “He was extremely loved because of his style appointment in both the School of Engineering (in the electrical of teaching. He gives them guidance and then — he makes a joke of engineering department) and the School of Medicine (radiology). it — tries to ‘get out of their way’.”

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Looking towards the Main Quad from the Malloy Terrace on the third floor of the Y2E2 Building. Malloys Make Gift with a View to the Future, Literally

Neither George nor Marian Malloy holds a degree from the Y2E2 made for a very appealing giving opportunity for the Stanford School of Engineering. That didn’t stop them, though, couple. Interdisciplinary by design, the building houses faculty from making a significant contribution to the school and the and students from civil and environmental engineering, law, and new Science and Engineering Quad (SEQ), through a building public policy, among other disciplines. Building residents have the gift to the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and opportunity to interact with colleagues outside of their normal Energy Building (Y2E2). area of focus, resulting in collaborations that would otherwise be unlikely to occur. Marian Malloy graduated from Stanford in 1954 with a degree in social service, George in 1950 with a degree in biological The Malloys’ gift of $1,000,000 named a terrace on the third sciences. After Marian’s graduation, they married and returned floor of Y2E2, on the south side of the building, near the office to Stockton, California, where they both had been raised. There, of Dick Luthy, chair of the civil and environmental engineering they raised their own family, built a life, and were very active in department. Luthy is a big fan of the space. local philanthropy, including helping to fund an undergraduate “Already,” he says, “the Malloy Terrace has become one of the Stanford scholarship for students from the area. © 2008 by the Board of Trustees of favorite gathering places in the building, both for those of us who Leland Stanford Junior University. It was not until George’s last reunion, however, that the two work there, as well as for the rest of the School of Engineering. started thinking about a more permanent legacy at Stanford. Reproduction in whole or in part Luthy adds that, “The Malloy Terrace is also a great place to watch They were inspired by President John L. Hennessy’s description without permission of the publisher the construction of the new School of Engineering Center and of the interdisciplinary thrust of The Stanford Challenge. Further is prohibited. The Stanford School Nano Center buildings.” of Engineering’s version of the discussions about Stanford’s needs during the campaign led to a Stanford Benefactor is a publication decision to help fund a building. Once the rest of SEQ is completed, the Malloy Terrace will offer a grand view of the new east-west mall joining SEQ with the historic of the Stanford School of “We wanted to support the university’s highest priorities,” says Main Quad, and will remain as a lasting tribute of the Malloys’ Engineering. Please direct inquiries Marian. to Dana Thomas at 650.724.6253 lifelong fondness for and relationship with Stanford. or [email protected].