斯坦福大学的简介(英文版)课件

1、The Stanford UniversityThe Stanford UniversityBrief introductionStudent Enrollment6,994 undergraduates9,128 graduatesFaculty2,153 faculty members20 Nobel laureates are currently members of the Stanford community4:1 student to faculty ratioCampus8,180 contiguous acresNearly 700 major buildings97% of

2、undergraduates live on campusResearch5,500 externally sponsored projects$1.22 billion total budgetEstablished 1885Opened 189117,6001,55011:1Shaanxi normal University2,70021Brief introduction17,6001,5501LeadershipPresident Marc Tessier-LavigneProvost John Etchemendysince 2000Seven SchoolsBusinessEart

3、h SciencesEducationEngineeringHumanities and SciencesLawMedicineEndowment$22.2 billion (as of Aug. 31, 2015)LeadershipThe world ranking of the StanfordThe Stanford ranks forth in the world universities ranking.The University of Harvard ranks first. The MIT ranks second.The University of California-B

4、erkeley ranks third.The world ranking of the StanfInfrastructureInfrastructurelibraryStanford University has 30 libraries, not only a collection of more than 650 million copies, and a fully computerized management. Shaanxi Normal University:4 million paper quality books libraryStanford University ha

5、sSports facilityThe schools sports facilities can accommodate 85,000 people stadium, golf course,baseball park, softball field and swimming pool, fully reflects the benefits of campus area.Sports facilityThe schools spCanteenCanteenHealth care Health care LocationLocationHistoryHistoryThe rudiment o

6、f the Stanford In 1876, former California Governor Leland Stanford purchased 650 acres of Rancho San Francisquito for a country home and began the development of his famous Palo Alto Stock Farm. He later bought adjoining properties totaling more than 8,000 acres.The rudiment of the Stanford 斯坦福大学的简介

7、(英文版)课件 Leland Stanford, who grew up and studied law in New York, moved West after the gold rush and, like many of his wealthy contemporaries, made his fortune in the railroads. He was a leader of the Republican Party, governor of California and later a U.S. senator. He and Jane had one son, who die

8、d of typhoid fever in 1884 when the family was traveling in Italy. Leland Jr. was just 15. Within weeks of his death, the Stanfords decided that, because they no longer could do anything for their own child, the children of California shall be our children. They quickly set about to find a lasting w

9、ay to memorialize their beloved son. Leland Stanford, who The Stanfords considered several possibilities a university, a technical school, a museum. While on the East Coast, they visited Harvard, MIT, Cornell and Johns Hopkinsto seek advice on starting a new university in California. Ultimately, the

10、y decided to establish two institutions in Leland Juniors name - the University and a museum. From the outset they made some untraditional choices: the university would be coeducational, in a time when most were all-male; non-denominational, when most were associated with a religious organization; a

11、nd avowedly practical, producing cultured and useful citizens. The Stanfords consid On October 1, 1891, Stanford University opened its doors after six years of planning and building. The prediction of a New York newspaper that Stanford professors would lecture in marble halls to empty benches was qu

12、ickly disproved. The first student body consisted of 555 men and women, and the original faculty of 15 was expanded to 49 for the second year. The universitys first president was David Starr Jordan, a graduate of Cornell, who left his post as president of Indiana University to join the adventure out

13、 West.WEST On October 1, 1891, SThe Stanford and The Silicon ValleyThe Stanford and The Silicon VIn the 1970s, the Stanford rent out 1,000 acres area to the companies that are founded by graduates or industrial and commercial circles . Today, the Stanfordisbesiegedby many technical communities and c

14、ompanies. With the rise of the high technology on the west-coast line, many computer companies pitch camps there, including the century darling Microsoft. From then on, the status of the Stanford becomes more and more important. The Stanford becomes the core of the Silicon Valley and the center of t

15、he worldwide technical innovation.In the 1970s, the Stanford ren斯坦福大学的简介(英文版)课件School mottoThe wind of freedom blowsThissentencesincethe16thcenturyGermananthropologist Ulrich von Hutten The motto is to encourage and guarantee students and faculties in the Stanford to do teaching and relevant researc

16、hing freely.School mottoThe wind of freedoSchoolbadgeItwasfoundedin1891.Thestarsrepresenttheschoolsgloriousachievements.Pinetrees,symbolofthetenaciouswillandnoblequality,theimageofthetreerepresentstheschoolentsteachingconceptinonehundred.Mountainsandriversandlandrepresentsitsfar-reachingvisionandgoo

17、dprospectsfordevelopment. The wind of freedom blows istheschoolmotto.SchoolbadgeItwasfoundedinSchool songHail Stanford Hail - StanfordUniversity Alma MaterWhere the rolling foothills riseUp towards mountains higherWhere at eve the Coast Range liesIn the sunset fireFlushing deep and palingHere we raise our voices，hailingThee, our Alma MaterFrom the Foothills to the bayIt shall ringAs we singIt shall ring and float awayHail， Stanford， hail！Hail， Stanford， hail！School songHail Stanford Hail Hail StanfordHail StanfordThats all, thank you!Thats all, t