History of the School of Humanities and Sciences
April, 2001
President John Hennessy appointed Sharon Long as the Vernon R. & Lysbeth
Warren Anderson Dean of School of Humanities and Sciences. She assumed
her new position on September 1st.
May 2, 2001
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced an unprecedented gift of
$400 million to Stanford University, with $300 million allocated to the School
of Humanities and Sciences and $100 million to the Campaign for Undergraduate
Education.
February 28, 2002
A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Lorry I. Lokey Laboratory Building
-- a new research facility for the departments of Chemistry and Biological Sciences.
Located at the intersection of Roth Way and Campus Drive West, the three-story
laboratory is slated for completion in August 2003.
September 3, 2002
Stanford physics Professor Andrei Linde, whose theories on the origin of the
universe revolutionized the field of cosmology, was named co-recipient of the
2002 Dirac Medal by the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics
(ICTP) in Trieste, Italy.
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