David Gerson ’14 is impressed by the graduate students who have gone on to create startups such as Skybox and SpaceX, but says that Stanford’s Aero/Astro Department does not do a good enough job of engaging the undergraduate community.
Stanford University tied for fifth place with five other universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of universities in the United States. Harvard University and Princeton University tied for first place, with Yale University in third and Columbia University in fourth. The California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania tied with Stanford for fifth. Duke University ranked 10th.
School of Engineering undergrad program is top 10, says U.S. News… Computer science team releases tool to uncover online activity on PC’s… School of Medicine Dean’s Medal to be awarded Sept. 10… HP awards research grant to mechanical engineering professor… Stanford news from around the Web for September 7, 2011.
There is much in the air this year about the place of the humanities at Stanford and about the optimal place of the humanities in an undergraduate education. First, there is no gainsaying that despite its nationally recognized quality, and despite real sympathy for it on the part of many non-humanist colleagues, the humanities faculty is not at the center of Stanford’s life — far from it. Enrollments have been declining for decades, and we humanists are sometimes taken to task by the University leadership for failing to counter this trend — the expression of a nation-wide trend in a university that is furthermore situated in the holy land of technology, Silicon Valley.
What does all this hydroelectric power do for the country? A lot, and so does solar too.