History of the School of Humanities and Sciences

1971
The Speech and Drama Department becomes Drama.

1972
Historian Carl Degler wins the Pulitzer Prize.

Professor of English Wallace Stegner wins the Pulitzer Prize.

1973
Professor of Mathematics Halsey Royden takes over the helm of H&S.

The Department of Religious Studies is established.

The Department of Linguistics is established.

The Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is founded.

1974
Paul Flory wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

1975
Dean Royden creates the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, one of the first honors of its type at Stanford.

1979
Historian Don Fehrenbacher wins the Pulitzer Prize.