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Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University is a private research university in Stanford, California, next to the city of Palo Alto, in Santa Clara County. It is a world-class institution and one of the top universities in the country. It was founded in 1885, by railroad tycoon and former California Governor Leland Stanford and his wife Jane Lathrop Stanford, as a memorial to their only son, Leland Jr., who died at the age of 16 while travelling in Europe. The university was built on the site of Leland Stanford's horse farm. It covers over 8,000 acres, making it one of the largest universities in the world.  It enrolls about 6,700 undergraduates and 8,000 graduate students, wtih 1,700 faculty members. It includes a business school, law school, and medical school. Associated with it are Stanford Hospital and the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital. It is largely  responsible for giving birth to Silicon Valley as a major center of technology.  Many large Silicon Valley companies, such as Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Yahoo!, Google, and Sun Microsystems, have their roots in Stanford. Below are pictures taken on the Stanford University campus.


The Oval and Sierra Mall


Sierra Mall, Jordan Hall (right), Hoover Tower (left)


Rodin sculptures, the "Burghers of Calais," in Memorial Court


Memorial Church


The Main Quad


Sculpture: "Gay Liberation" by George Segal, 1980


Hoover Tower, Bing Wing of the Green Library


The Bookstore and fountain


Law School and Robert Crown Library


Paul Allen Center for Integrated Systems


Bill Gates Computer Science


David Packard Electrical Engineering


William R. Hewlett Teaching Center


Terman Engineering Center


Durand Building


Leland Stanford Junior Museum and Cantor Arts Center


Rodin's "The Thinker"


Inside the museum


Rodin's "The Gates of Hell" in the Rodin Sculpture Garden


Sculpture: "Stone River"


James H. Clark Center


School of Medicine


Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital


Avery Aquatic Center


Stanford Family Mausoleum


Statue of Leland, Leland Jr., Jane Lathrop Stanford


The Cactus garden


The "Weeping Angel," a monument to Henry Clay Lathrop, brother of Jane Lathrop Stanford


"The Thinker" in the Maori Sculpture Garden


The Red Barn

Pictures taken Jan.-Feb. 2007 by Ron Horii. Page created by Ron Horii, 11/9/08