GLADSTONE, N.J. -- Michelle Wie remembers what victory tastes like. When she tapped in for her first L.P.G.A. Tour title, in 2009, her fellow tour pros Paula Creamer and Morgan Pressel sprayed her with beer. A few days later friends at her Stanford University dorm surprised her with a beer bath. A year later, Christina Kim doused Wie with Champagne...
Palo Alto, Calif. Andrew Ng is an associate professor of computer science at Stanford, and he has a rather charming way of explaining how the new interactive online education company that he cofounded, Coursera, hopes to revolutionize higher education by allowing students from all over the world to not only hear his lectures, but to do homework...
The idea that a handful of college instructors and student teachers in the school of education at the University of Massachusetts could slow the corporatization of public education in America is both quaint and ridiculous. Sixty-seven of the 68 students studying to be teachers at the middle and high school levels at the Amherst campus are...
Stanford University er et universitet i Palo Alto i Californien. Universitetet blev grundlagt i 1891 med penge fra en donation fra Californiens guvernør Leland Stanford og hans kone. Pengene blev givet til minde om deres eneste søn, der døde af salmonella som teenager. Derfor er det officielle navn også The Leland Stanford Junior University.
Universitet dækker et område på 32 km², men har alligevel "kun" ca. 15.000 studerende. På universitet er lærerstaben på 1.700, hvoraf ikke mindre end 17 har fået en Nobelpris. Samtidigt er en lang række virksomheder blevet skabt på universitetet. Det er f.eks. Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Yahoo!, Google, og Sun Microsystems.