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birth name | Lela Rochon Staples |
birth date | April 17, 1964 |
birth place | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
othername | Lela Rochon Fuqua Lela Rochon Quiñones |
occupation | Actress |
yearsactive | 1984–present |
spouse | Antoine Fuqua(1999–present) Adolfo Quiñones(1984–1987; divorced) }} |
Lela Rochon (born Lela Rochon Staples; April 17, 1964) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Robin Stokes in the movie ''Waiting to Exhale''.
In 1996, Lela was chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the "50 most beautiful people in the world".
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Image name | Stanford University seal.svg |
Name | Stanford University |
Native name | Leland Stanford Junior University |
Motto | (German) |
Mottoeng | The wind of freedom blows |
Established | 1891 |
Type | Private |
Calendar | Quarter |
President | John L. Hennessy |
Provost | John Etchemendy |
City | Stanford |
State | California |
Country | United States |
Endowment | US $13.8 billion |
Faculty | 1,910 |
Students | 15,319 |
Undergrad | 6,878 |
Postgrad | 8,441 |
Campus | Suburban, |
Colors | Cardinal red and white |
Mascot | Stanford Tree (unofficial) |
Athletics | NCAA Division I (FBS) Pac-12 |
Free label | Athletic nickname |
Free | Cardinal |
Website | Stanford.edu |
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Leland Stanford, a Californian railroad tycoon and politician, founded the university in 1891 in honor of his son, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died of typhoid two months before his 16th birthday. The university was established as a coeducational and nondenominational institution, but struggled financially after the senior Stanford's 1893 death and after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would become known as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a linear accelerator, was one of the original four ARPANET nodes, and had transformed itself into a major research university in computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, and social sciences. More than 50 Stanford faculty, staff, and alumni have won the Nobel Prize and Stanford has the largest number of Turing award winners for a single institution. Stanford faculty and alumni have founded many prominent technology companies including Cisco Systems, Google, Hewlett-Packard, LinkedIn, Netscape Communications, Rambus, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Varian Associates, and Yahoo!.
The university is organized into seven schools including academic schools of Humanities and Sciences and Earth Sciences as well as professional schools of Business, Education, Engineering, Law, and Medicine. Stanford has a student body of approximately 6,900 undergraduate and 8,400 graduate students. Stanford is a founding member of the Association of American Universities and in 2010 managed US$1.15 billion in research funding and $13.8 billion in endowment support, with $21.4 billion in consolidated net assets.
Stanford competes in 34 varsity sports and is one of two private universities in the NCAA Division I-A Pacific-12 Conference. Stanford's athletic program has won the NACDA Directors' Cup every year since 1995. In the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Stanford athletes won 25 medals, including 8 gold medals, more than any other university in the United States.
Senator and Mrs. Stanford visited Harvard's President Eliot and asked how much it would cost to duplicate Harvard in California. Eliot replied that he supposed $15 million would be enough. David Starr Jordan, the president of Indiana University, was their eventual choice to direct Stanford, after several leaders of the Ivy League turned them down. Locals and members of the university community are known to refer to the school as The Farm, a nod to the fact that the university is located on the former site of Leland Stanford's horse farm.
The motto of Stanford University, selected by President Jordan, is "''Die Luft der Freiheit weht.''" Translated from the German, this quotation from Ulrich von Hutten means "The wind of freedom blows." The motto was controversial during World War I, when anything in German was suspect; at that time the university disavowed that this motto was official.
The university's founding Grant of Endowment from the Stanfords came in November, 1885. Besides defining the operational structure of the University, it made several specific stipulations: "The Trustees ... shall have the power and it shall be their duty:
The original 'inner quad' buildings (1887–91) were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Francis A. Walker, Charles Allerton Coolidge, and Leland Stanford himself. After six years of planning and building, the university officially opened on October 1, 1891, to 559 students and 15 faculty members, seven of them from Cornell. Tuition was free until the 1930s. Herbert Hoover and his future wife Lou Hoover were in the first class; the Hoovers maintained close lifetime ties to the school.
Stanford alumnus George E. Crothers became a close adviser to Jane Stanford following his graduation from Stanford's law school in 1896. Working with his brother Thomas (also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property—a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.
Edward Alsworth Ross gained fame as a founding father of American sociology; in 1900 Jane Stanford fired him for radicalism and racism, unleashing a major academic freedom case.
Jane Stanford's actions were sometimes eccentric. In 1897, she directed the board of trustees "that the students be taught that everyone born on earth has a soul germ, and that on its development depends much in life here and everything in Life Eternal". She forbade students from sketching nude models in life-drawing class, banned automobiles from campus, and did not allow a hospital to be constructed so that people would not form an impression that Stanford was unhealthy. Between 1899 and 1905, she spent $3 million on a grand construction scheme building lavish memorials to the Stanford family, while university faculty and self-supporting students were living in poverty.
During the 1940s and 1950s, Frederick Terman, as dean of engineering and provost, encouraged faculty and graduates to start their own companies. He is credited with nurturing Hewlett-Packard, Varian Associates, and other high-tech firms, until what would become Silicon Valley grew up around the Stanford campus. Terman is often called "the father of Silicon Valley." Terman encouraged William B. Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, to return to his hometown of Palo Alto. In 1956 he established the Shockley Transistor Laboratory.
Stanford's main campus is actually its own census-designated place within unincorporated Santa Clara County, although some of the university land (including the Stanford Shopping Center and the Stanford Research Park) is within the city limits of Palo Alto. The campus also includes much land in unincorporated San Mateo County (including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve), as well as in the city limits of Menlo Park (Stanford Hills neighborhood), Woodside, and Portola Valley. The United States Postal Service has assigned Stanford two ZIP codes: 94305 for campus mail and 94309 for P.O. box mail. It lies within area code 650.
Much of this first construction was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but the university retains the Quad, the old Chemistry Building (which is not in use and has been boarded up since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake), and Encina Hall (the residence of Herbert Hoover, John Steinbeck, and Anthony Kennedy during their times at Stanford). After the 1989 earthquake inflicted further damage, the university implemented a billion-dollar capital improvement plan to retrofit and renovate older buildings for new, up-to-date uses.
On the founding grant but away from the main campus: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is a nature reserve owned by the university and used by wildlife biologists for research, located south of the main campus. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a facility located south of main campus and originally owned by Stanford but now operated by the university for the Department of Energy. It contains the longest linear particle accelerator in the world, on of land.
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Locations in development: Redwood City: in 2005, the university purchased a small, campus in Midpoint Technology Park intended for staff offices, although it remains undeveloped. China: the university is currently building a small campus for researchers and students in collaboration with Peking University. New York: the university has submitted a "formal expression of interest" in response to the city of New York's call for proposals to build an engineering campus as a partnership between the city and a "world-class institution." If selected, Stanford would build a satellite campus on Roosevelt Island for engineering, with a focus on information technology, and would also draw on Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, the Graduate School of Business and the Technology Ventures Program.
The university also has its own golf course and a seasonal lake (Lake Lagunita, actually an irrigation reservoir), both home to the vulnerable California Tiger Salamander. Lake Lagunita is often dry now, but the university has no plans to artificially fill it.
The Department of Sustainability and Energy Management (SEM) leads initiatives in campus infrastructure and programs in the areas of energy and climate, water, transportation, green buildings, and sustainable information technology, as well as various special initiatives. The Office of Sustainability connects campus organizations and entities and works collaboratively with them to steer sustainability initiatives to fulfill President Hennessy’s vision that sustainability will, "become a core value in everything we do." The office works on long-range sustainability analysis and planning, evaluations and reporting, communication and outreach, academic integration, conservation behavior and training, and sustainability governance strategy. For the third consecutive year, Stanford received designation of an Overall Campus Sustainability Leader from the Sustainable Endowments Institute’s College Sustainability Report Card. Stanford earned straight “A” grades in the following topic areas: administration, climate change & energy, food & recycling, green building, student involvement, transportation, investment priorities, and shareholder engagement. The ''2009–2010 Year in Review'' provides an overview of the most recent sustainability efforts on campus. The Sustainable Stanford program continues to improve sustainable practices on campus:
The Board appoints a President to serve as the chief executive officer of the university and prescribe the duties of professors and course of study, manage financial and business affairs, and appoint nine vice presidents. John L. Hennessy was appointed the 10th President of the University in October 2000. The Provost is the chief academic and budget officer, to whom the deans of each of the seven schools report. John Etchemendy was named the 12th Provost in September 2000.
The university is organized into seven schools: School of Humanities and Sciences, School of Engineering, School of Earth Sciences, School of Education, Graduate School of Business, Stanford Law School and the Stanford University School of Medicine. The powers and authority of the faculty are vested in the Academic Council, which is made up of tenure and non-tenure line faculty, research faculty, senior fellows in some policy centers and institutes, the president of the university, and some other academic administrators, but most matters are handled by the Faculty Senate, made up of 55 elected representatives of the faculty.
The Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) is the student government for Stanford University and all registered students are members. Its elected leadership consists of the Undergraduate Senate elected by the undergraduate students, the Graduate Student Council elected by the graduate students, and the President and Vice President elected as a ticket by the entire student body.
Stanford also houses the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, a major public policy think tank that attracts visiting scholars from around the world, and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is dedicated to the more specific study of international relations. Unable to locate a copy in any of its libraries, the Soviet Union was obliged to ask the Hoover Institution for a microfilm copy of its original edition of the first issue of ''Pravda'' (dated March 5, 1917).
Stanford is home to the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalist and the Center for Ocean Solutions, which brings together marine science and policy to develop solutions to challenges facing the ocean.
Digital libraries and text services include digital image collections, the Humanities Digital Information Services group, and the Media Microtext Center. HighWire Press, the university ePublishing platform, produces and hosts some 1,400 journals and receives over 600 billion requests every month. The Stanford University Press also produces over 175 books each year.
The vast computing resources include some 150,000 computers on the Stanford University Network (SUNet, one of the first to connect to the internet), including clusters of printer-enabled computers in every undergraduate residence (the first residential computing program), as well as high-performance computer clusters for general use throughout the campus.
Stanford is a founding and charter member of CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, the nonprofit organization that provides extremely high-performance Internet-based networking to California's K-20 research and education community.
Stanford enrolled 6,887 undergraduate and 8,779 graduate students in the 2010-2011 year. Women comprised 48% of undergraduates and 37% of professional and graduate students. The freshman retention rate for 2010 was 98%, the four-year graduation rate is 78.4%, and the six-year rate is 95%. The relatively low four-year graduation rate is a function of the university's coterminal degree (or "coterm") program, which allows students to earn a Master's degree as an extension of their undergraduate program.
Stanford awarded 1,671 undergraduate degrees, 2,068 Master's degrees, 708 doctoral degrees, and 270 professional degrees in 2010. The most popular Bachelor's degrees were in the social sciences, interdisciplinary studies, and engineering.
For the class of 2014, Stanford received 32,022 applications and accepted 2300 or 7.2%, the lowest in the university's history and among the lowest in the country. For the class of 2015, Stanford received 5,929 single-choice early action applications and accepted 754 of them, for an early admission rate of 12.7%. This application season Stanford received more than 34,200 total applications from both the regular and early rounds.
The cost of attendance in 2010-2011 is $54,947. Stanford's admission process is need-blind for US citizens and permanent residents; while it is not need-blind for international students, 64% are on need-based aid, with an average aid package of $31,411. In 2010, the university awarded $117 million in financial aid to 3,530 students, with an average aid package of $40,593. total external and internal aid (including jobs and optional loans) amounted to $172.3 million to undergraduate students. 80% of students are on some form of financial aid. Stanford's no-loan policy waives tuition, room, and board for families with incomes below $60,000, and families with incomes below $100,000 are not required to pay tuition (those with incomes up to $150,000 will have tuition significantly reduced). 17% of students receive Pell Grants, a common measure of low-income students at a college. 15% of the undergraduates are first-generation students.
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Stanford is consistently ranked among the top universities in the world, both for undergraduate teaching and graduate-level research. The ''U.S. News and World Report'' (USNWR) ranks it fifth among large universities for its undergraduate program in 2009. In the 2011 ''U.S. News'' graduate school rankings, Stanford also placed in the top 5 for every discipline in which it was ranked, except bioengineering, where it placed 8th.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranked Stanford 3rd in the world in 2010. ARWU ranked Stanford 7th in Natural Sciences and Mathematics, 2nd in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences, 5th in Life and Agriculture Sciences, 12th in Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy, and 3rd in Social Sciences worldwide. In its subject rankings, ARWU placed Stanford 4th in mathematics, 6th in physics, 4th in chemistry, 1st in computer science, and 4th in economics and business. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked Stanford 4th best research university in the world in 2010. The ''Times'' also ranked Stanford 3rd in engineering and technology, 3rd in life sciences, 5th in physical sciences, 2nd in arts & humanities, 3rd in social sciences, and 2nd in clinical, pre-clinical and health sciences; no other university places in the top 5 across all broad disciplines studied. The QS World University Rankings placed Stanford 8th in arts & humanities, 2nd in engineering & technology, 6th in social sciences & management, 6th in natural sciences, 4th in life sciences & medicine, and 13th overall.
Stanford places fourth among national universities by ''The Washington Monthly'', second among "global universities" by ''Newsweek'', and tied for 1st with MIT and Columbia University in the first tier among national universities by the Center for Measuring University Performance. In the MINE ParisTech rankings in 2008 measuring the number of Chief Executive Officers among the Fortune Global 500, Stanford is ranked third in the world. According to ''Forbes'', Stanford has produced the second highest number of billionaires of all universities.
Among professional schools, the Stanford Law School is ranked 3rd in the nation while its School of Education is ranked 4th. The Stanford Graduate School of Business is ranked 1st according to ''U.S. News and World Report''. ''Forbes'' ranked the business school at the top in its 2009 "Best Business Schools" list. In the 2010 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report Stanford placed 4th in North America. The School of Medicine is currently ranked 5th in the nation according to ''U.S. News and World Report 2010''.
From a 2010 poll done by the ''Princeton Review'', Stanford is the most commonly named "dream college," both for students and for parents, a title it has held in previous years. According to the 2011 Times Higher Education World Reputation ranking (based on a survey of 13,388 academics over 131 countries, the largest evaluation of academic reputation to date), Stanford is 4th in the world. A 2003 Gallup poll, which asked about the best colleges in the U.S., found that Stanford is the second-most prestigious university (behind Harvard) in the eyes of the general American public and roughly equal in prestige to Harvard among college-education people.
Stanford has a thriving artistic and musical community. Extracurricular activities include theater groups such as Ram's Head Theatrical Society and the Stanford Shakespeare Society, award-winning a cappella music groups such as the Mendicants, Counterpoint, the Stanford Fleet Street Singers, Harmonics, Mixed Company, Testimony, Talisman, Everyday People, Raagapella, and a group dedicated to performing the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, the Stanford Savoyards. Beyond these, the music department sponsors many ensembles including five choirs, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Taiko, and the Stanford Wind Ensemble.
Stanford's dance community is one of the most vibrant in the country, with an active dance division in the Drama Department and over 30 different dance-related student groups, including the Stanford Band's Dollie dance troupe.
Perhaps most distinctive of all is its social and vintage dance community, cultivated by dance historian Richard Powers and enjoyed by hundreds of students and thousands of alumni. Stanford hosts monthly informal dances (called Jammix) and large quarterly dance events, including Ragtime Ball (fall), the Stanford Viennese Ball (winter), and Big Dance (spring). Stanford also boasts a student-run swing performance troupe called Swingtime and several alumni performance groups, including Decadance and the Academy of Danse Libre.
The creative writing program brings young writers to campus via the Stegner Fellowships and other graduate scholarship programs. ''This Boy's Life'' author Tobias Wolff teaches writing to undergraduates and graduate students. Knight Journalism Fellows are invited to spend a year at the campus taking seminars and courses of their choice. There is also an extracurricular writing and performance group called the Stanford Spoken Word Collective, which also serves as the school's poetry slam team.
Stanford also hosts various publishing courses for professionals. Stanford Professional Publishing Course, which has been offered on campus since the late 1970s, brings together international publishing professionals to discuss changing business models in magazine and book publishing.
Stanford has been the top fundraising university in the United States for several years, sometimes doubling the fundraising amounts of its top competitors. It raised $911 million in 2006, $832 million in 2007, $785 million in 2008, $640 million in 2009, and $599 million in 2010.
In 2006, President Hennessy launched the Stanford Challenge, a $4.3 billion fundraising campaign focusing on three components: multidisciplinary research initiatives, initiatives to improve education, and core support. In 2009, Stanford surpassed that goal two years ahead of time, despite the economic downturn, making it the most successful collegiate fundraising effort in history; however, Stanford has continued with the campaign for its final two years in order to meet all its initial goals fully.
Several residences are considered theme houses. The Academic, Language and Culture Houses include EAST (East Asian Studies Theme), Hammarskjöld (International Theme), Haus Mitteleuropa (Central European Theme), La Casa Italiana (Italian Language and Culture), La Maison Française (French Language and Culture House), Slavianskii Dom (Slavic/East European Theme House), Storey (Human Biology Theme House), and Yost (Spanish Language and Culture).Cross-Cultural Theme Houses include Casa Zapata (Chicano/Latino Theme in Stern Hall), Muwekma-tah-ruk (American Indian/Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Theme), Okada (Asian-American Theme in Wilbur Hall), and Ujamaa (Black/African-American Theme in Lagunita Court). Focus Houses include Freshman-Sophomore College (Freshman Focus), Branner Hall (Community Service), Kimball (Arts & Performing Arts), Crothers (Global Citizenship), and Toyon (Sophomore Priority).
Another famous style of housing at Stanford is the co-ops. These houses feature cooperative living, where residents and eating associates each contribute work to keep the house running, such as cooking meals or cleaning shared spaces. The co-ops on campus are Chi Theta Chi, Columbae, Enchanted Broccoli Forest (EBF), Hammarskjöld (which is also the International Theme House), Kairos, Terra, and Synergy.
At any time, around 50 percent of the graduate population lives on campus. Now that construction has concluded on the new Munger graduate residence, this percentage has probably increased. First-year graduate students are guaranteed housing.
Former campus traditions include the Big Game bonfire on Lake Lagunita (a seasonal lake usually dry in the fall), which is now inactive because of the presence of endangered salamanders in the lake bed.
There are also four unhoused MGC (Multicultural Greek Council) sororities on campus (Alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Lambda Theta Nu, Sigma Psi Zeta, and Sigma Theta Psi), as well as two unhoused MGC fraternities (Gamma Zeta Alpha and Lambda Phi Epsilon). Lambda Phi Epsilon is recognized by the National Interfraternity Conference (NIC).
Groups include (but are not limited to):
Stanford participates in the NCAA's Division I-A and is a member of the Pacific-12 Conference. Stanford has constantly won the NACDA Directors' Cup, The University of North Carolina won the award for best Division I collegiate athletics program in its inaugural year. Since then, Stanford University has won it seventeen straight years, winning seventeen out of the eighteen years it has been offered. It also participates in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation for indoor track (men and women), fencing (men and women), water polo (men and women), women's gymnastics, women's lacrosse, men's gymnastics, and men's volleyball. The women's field hockey team is part of the NorPac Conference. Stanford's traditional sports rival is the University of California, Berkeley, its neighbor to the north in the East Bay.
Stanford offers 34 varsity sports (18 female, 15 male, one coed), 19 club sports and 37 intramural sports—about 800 students participate in intercollegiate sports. The university offers about 300 athletic scholarships.
The winner of the annual "Big Game" between the Cal and Stanford football teams gains custody of the Stanford Axe. The first "Big Game", played at Haight Street Park in San Francisco on March 19, 1892, established football on the west coast. Stanford won 14 to 10 in front of 8 thousand spectators. Stanford's football team played in the first Rose Bowl in 1902. However, the violence of the sport at the time, coupled with the post-game rioting of drunken spectators, led San Francisco to bar further "Big Games" in the city in 1905. In 1906, David Starr Jordan banned football from Stanford. The 1906–1914 "Big Game" contests featured rugby instead of football. Stanford football was resumed in 1919. Stanford won back-to-back Rose Bowls in 1971 and 1972. Stanford has played in 12 Rose Bowls, most recently in 2000. Stanford's Jim Plunkett won the Heisman Trophy in 1970.
Club sports, while not officially a part of Stanford athletics, are numerous at Stanford. Sports include archery, badminton, cheerleading, cricket, cycling, equestrian, hurling, ice hockey, judo, kayaking, men's lacrosse, polo, racquetball, rugby union, squash, skiing, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon and Ultimate. The men's Ultimate team won national championships in 1984 and 2002, the women's Ultimate team in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007, the women's rugby team in 1999, 2005, 2006 and 2008. The cycling team won the 2007 Division I USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships.
Until 1930, Stanford did not have a "mascot" name for its athletic teams. In that year, the athletic department adopted the name "Indians." In 1972, "Indians" was dropped after a complaint of racial insensitivity was lodged by Native American students.
The Stanford sports teams are now officially referred to as the Stanford Cardinal, referring to the deep red color, not the cardinal bird. Cardinal, and later cardinal and white has been the university's official color since the 19th century. The Band's mascot, "The Tree", has become associated with the school in general. Part of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB), the tree symbol derives from the El Palo Alto redwood tree on the Stanford and City of Palo Alto seals.
Stanford hosts an annual U.S. Open Series tennis tournament, the Bank of the West Classic, at Taube Stadium. Cobb Track, Angell Field, and Avery Stadium Pool are considered world-class athletic facilities. Stanford Stadium hosted Super Bowl XIX on January 20, 1985, in which the San Francisco 49ers defeated the Miami Dolphins by a score of 38–16 and several group stage matches in the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
Stanford has won the award for the top ranked collegiate athletic program—the NACDA Director's Cup, formerly known as the ''Sears Cup''—every year for the past seventeen years. Stanford has had at least one NCAA team champion every year since the 1976-77 school year.
NCAA achievements: Stanford has earned 101 National Collegiate Athletic Association national team titles since its establishment, second most behind the University of California, Los Angeles, and 467 individual National championships, the most by any university. The 101st championship was won by the 2010-2011 Stanford Women's Water Polo team.
Olympic achievements: According to the ''Stanford Daily'', "Stanford has been represented in every summer Olympiad since 1908." As of 2004, Stanford athletes had won 182 Olympic medals at the summer games; "In fact, in every Olympiad since 1912, Stanford athletes have won at least one and as many as 17 gold medals." Stanford athletes won 24 medals at the 2008 Summer Games—8 gold, 12 silver and 4 bronze.
Stanford's current community of scholars includes: 16 Nobel Prize laureates; 137 members of the National Academy of Sciences; 95 members of National Academy of Engineering; 62 members of Institute of Medicine; 258 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 19 recipients of the National Medal of Science; 2 recipients of the National Medal of Technology; 30 members of the National Academy of Education; 43 members of American Philosophical Society; 56 fellows of the American Physics Society (since 1995); 4 Pulitzer Prize winners; 24 MacArthur Fellows; 7 Wolf Foundation Prize winners; 6 Koret Foundation Prize winners; 2 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award winners; 14 AAAI fellows; 3 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners.
Stanford has been affiliated with over 50 Nobel laureates, as well as 19 recipients (mostly as faculty) of the Turing Award, the so-called "Nobel Prize in computer science," comprising nearly half of the awards given in its 44-year history. The university is also affiliated with 4 Gödel Prize and 4 Knuth Prize recipients, for their work in the foundations of computer science.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, former U.S. President Herbert Hoover, former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo are alumni.
NBA guard Landry Fields, NFL quarterbacks Jim Plunkett, Trent Edwards and John Elway, NFL receivers Gordon Banks and Ed McCaffrey, NFL Fullback Jon Ritchie, runner Ryan Hall, MLB starting pitcher Mike Mussina, MLB left-fielder Carlos Quentin, MLB infielder Jed Lowrie, Grand Slam winning tennis players John McEnroe (did not graduate) (singles and doubles) and (doubles) Bob and Mike Bryan, professional golfer Tiger Woods (did not graduate), New Zealand Football and Blackburn Rovers Defender Ryan Nelsen, Olympic swimmers Jenny Thompson, Summer Sanders and Pablo Morales, Olympic figure skater Debi Thomas, Olympic water polo players Tony Azevedo and Brenda Villa, Olympic softball player Jessica Mendoza, Olympic volleyball player Kerri Walsh, Heisman finalist Toby Gerhart, and actress Reese Witherspoon (did not graduate) are alumni.
Actresses Jennifer Connelly and Sigourney Weaver (her alumna status was featured in the 2009 film Avatar), actor Ben Savage, and political commentator Rachel Maddow are prominent graduates. 21st President of Pacific Union College, Heather Knight did her doctoral studies at Stanford.
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Coordinates | 41°52′55″N87°37′40″N |
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name | Angela Bassett |
birth name | Angela Evelyn Bassett |
birth date | August 16, 1958 |
birth place | Harlem, New York City |
occupation | Actress |
years active | 1985–present |
spouse | Courtney B. Vance (1997–present; 1 son, 1 daughter) }} |
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. She has become well known for her biographical film roles portraying real life women in African American culture, including singer Tina Turner in the motion picture ''What's Love Got to Do with It'', as well as Betty Shabazz in the films ''Malcolm X'' and ''Panther'', Rosa Parks in the ''The Rosa Parks Story'', Katherine Jackson in the miniseries ''The Jacksons: An American Dream'' and Voletta Wallace in the film ''Notorious''.
Bassett attended Yale University and received her B.A. degree in African-American studies in 1980. In 1983, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, Bassett met her future husband Courtney B. Vance, a 1986 graduate of the drama school. After graduation, Bassett worked as a receptionist for a beauty salon and as a photo researcher.
Bassett soon looked for acting work in the New York theater. One of her first New York performances came in 1985 when she appeared in J. E. Franklin's ''Black Girl'' at Second Stage Theatre. She appeared in two August Wilson plays at the Yale Repertory Theatre under the direction of her long-time instructor Lloyd Richards. The Wilson plays featuring Bassett were ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'' (1984) and ''Joe Turner's Come and Gone'' (1986). In 2006, she had the opportunity to work on the Wilson canon again, starring in Fences alongside longtime collaborator Laurence Fishburne at the Pasadena Playhouse in California.
In 1992, Bassett played Katherine Jackson in the mini series ''The Jacksons: An American Dream''. Later that year, Bassett was cast as Tina Turner in the feature film ''What's Love Got to Do with It'' (1993). Bassett won a Golden Globe and earned an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Turner. She was the first African-American to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Bassett starred in three movies in 1995, which were released with varied reactions from critics: ''Vampire in Brooklyn'', ''Strange Days'', and ''Waiting to Exhale'' (where she worked with author Terry McMillan). In ''Strange Days'', Bassett plays Lornette "Mace" Mason, a chauffeur and bodyguard. In Vampire in Brooklyn, she plays Rita Veder, a tortured cop with a dark secret. Bassett's character in ''Waiting to Exhale'', Bernadine Harris, was betrayed by her husband and in revenge she set fire to his entire wardrobe and vehicle, then sold what was left for one dollar.
In 1998, Bassett starred in the film ''How Stella Got Her Groove Back'', once again collaborating with McMillan. She played Stella, a 40-year-old American professional woman who falls in love with a 20-year-old Jamaican man. In 2000, Bassett turned down the lead role in ''Monster's Ball'' due to the script's sexual content; the role earned Halle Berry the Academy Award for Best Actress.
In 2003, she read from the WPA slave narratives in the HBO film ''Unchained Memories''. In the 1930s, about 100,000 former slaves were still living during the Great Depression, of which 2,300 were interviewed part of the Federal Writers' Project. The transcripts of the Slave Narratives collection of the Library of Congress is a record of slavery, bondage and misery.
Bassett joined the regular cast of the medical drama series ''ER'' for the show's final season (2008–2009). She portrayed Dr. Catherine Banfield, an exacting Chief of the ER who was also working to recover from the death of a son and to bring another child into her family. Bassett's husband Courtney Vance played her television husband on ''ER'' as Russell Banfield.
In 2010, Basset lent her voice to portray First Lady Michelle Obama on an episode of ''The Simpsons'' entitled "Stealing First Base". Bassett was also cast in the superhero film ''Green Lantern'', released in 2011, as notable DC Comics character Amanda Waller.
In 2010, Deadline.com reported that Bassett would have a role in ABC's show, ''One Police Plaza''.
Bassett married actor Courtney B. Vance in 1997. In the summer of 2005, they starred together in a production of the play ''His Girl Friday'' at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Trying for seven years since 2000, Bassett suffered two miscarriages. The couple's children – son Slater Josiah and daughter Bronwyn Golden-- were born on January 27, 2006.
Bassett is an avid supporter of programs for the Arts, especially for youth. She annually attends events for children with diabetes and those in foster homes. She is an active Ambassador of UNICEF for the United States. Bassett is a big supporter of the Royal Theater Boys & Girls Club in her hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida. The Club is one of the first all performing arts Boys & Girls Clubs in the country.
Bassett is represented by the Executive Speakers Bureau of Memphis, Tennessee and receives over $50,000 per appearance.
+ Film | |||
! Year | ! Film | ! Role | Notes |
1986 | ''F/X'' | TV Reporter | |
1990 | ''Kindergarten Cop'' | Stewardess | |
1991 | ''Critters 4'' | Fran | Released Straight-to-Video |
1991 | ''Boyz n the Hood'' | Reva Devereaux | |
1991 | Reesha | ||
1992 | ''Passion Fish'' | Dawn/Rhonda | |
1992 | U.S. Attorney Sinclair | ||
1992 | Betty Shabazz | ||
1993 | |||
1995 | ''Vampire in Brooklyn'' | Det. Rita Veder | |
1995 | Betty Shabazz | ||
1995 | Lornette 'Mace' Mason | ||
1995 | ''Waiting to Exhale'' | Bernadine 'Bernie' Harris | |
1997 | Rachel Constantine | ||
1998 | ''How Stella Got Her Groove Back'' | Stella | |
1999 | ''Our Friend, Martin'' | Miles' Mom | Voice role, released Straight-to-Video |
1999 | ''Music of the Heart'' | Principal Janet Williams | |
2000 | Dr. Kaela Evers | ||
2000 | ''Whispers: An Elephant's Tale'' | Groove | Voice Role |
2000 | ''Boesman and Lena'' | Lena | |
2001 | '''' | Diane | |
2002 | Desiree Stokes Perry | ||
2003 | ''Unchained Memories'' | Reader | |
2003 | ''Masked and Anonymous'' | Mistress | |
2004 | '''' | Dr. Elizabeth Chase | |
2004 | ''Mr. 3000'' | Maureen 'Mo' Simmons | |
2005 | Mr. Smith's Boss | Uncredited voice role | |
2006 | ''Akeelah and the Bee'' | Tanya Anderson | |
2007 | ''Meet the Robinsons'' | Mildred | Voice role |
2008 | ''Gospel Hill'' | Sarah Malcolm | |
2008 | ''Of Boys and Men'' | Rieta Cole | |
2008 | Brenda Brown | ||
2008 | Bonnie Benjamin | ||
2009 | Voletta Wallace | ||
2011 | Mrs. Watson | ||
2011 | Amanda Waller | ||
2012 |
+ Television | |||
! Year | ! Film | ! Role | Notes |
1985 | ''Doubletake'' | Prostitute at Headquarters | |
1985 | ''Spenser: For Hire'' | Joe's Daughter | Episode: "The Choice" |
1985, 1988 | '''' | Mrs. MitchellPaula | List of The Cosby Show episodes#Season 1: 1984–1985 |
1986 | ''Liberty'' | Linda Thornton | [[NBC TV-Movie |
1987 | ''Ryan's Hope'' | Leonie Peach | |
1989 | '''' | Bailey Webster | Episodes: "The Master's Mirror" and "Never My Love" |
1989 | Lt. Camilla Patterson | Episodes: "Hard Stripe" and "The Volunteer" | |
1989 | Amy Burnett | ||
1989 | Kate Harriton | ||
1990 | ''Family of Spies'' | Bev Andress | CBS TV-Movie |
1990 | Renee Longstreet | Episode: "Eyewitness News" | |
1990 | Cheryl McNair | ABC TV-Movie | |
1990 | ''Equal Justice'' | Janet Fields | Episode: "Goodbye, Judge Green" |
1990 | ''In the Best Interest of the Child'' | Lori | CBS TV-Movie |
1990 | ''Perry Mason: In the Case of the Silenced Singer'' | Carla Peters | NBC TV-Movie |
1991 | ''Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story'' | Pat | NBC TV-Movie |
1991 | '''' | Linda Lake | Episode: "Beat the Clock" |
1991 | ''Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor'' | Allison | ABC TV-Movie |
1991 | ''Stat'' | Dr. Willie Burns | Episode: "Ladyfinger" |
1991 | '''' | Lt. Phoebe Jeter | ABC TV-Movie |
1991 | ''Locked Up: A Mother's Rage'' | Willie | TV-Movie |
1991 | ''One Special Victory'' | Lois | NBC TV-Movie |
1992 | ''Nightmare Cafe'' | Evelyn | |
1992 | '''' | Katherine Jackson | ABC Miniseries |
1995 | Uncredited role as Runway Model | Episode: "Pilot" | |
2001 | ''Ruby's Bucket of Blood'' | Ruby Delacroix | |
2002 | '''' | Rosa Parks | CBS TV-Movie |
2003 | ''Freedom: A History of Us'' | PBS MiniseriesEpisodes: "Marching to Freedom Land" and "Let Freedom Ring" | |
2005 | CIA Director Hayden Chase | Episodes: "Authorized Personnel Only", "The Index", "The Descent" and "Search And Rescue" | |
2006 | Jill Greco | CBS TV-Movie | |
2008–2009 | |||
2010 | '''' | First Lady Michelle Obama |
+Awards and nominations | ||||
! Year | ! Award | ! Category | ! Result | ! For |
1994 | Academy Award | Best Actress | Nominated | |
1994 | Golden Globe | Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy | Won | ''What's Love Got to Do with It'' |
1995 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture | Won | ''What's Love Got to Do with It'' |
1995 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | Won | |
1995 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture | Won | ''Waiting to Exhale'' |
1996 | Daytime Emmy Award | Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series | Nominated | ''Storytime'' |
1996 | Women in Film Los Angeles | Recipient | ||
1996 | [[Saturn Award | Best Actress | Won | |
1998 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | Nominated | |
1999 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion Picture | Won | ''How Stella Got Her Groove Back'' |
2000 | Black Reel Award | Best Supporting Actress in a Theatrical Film | Nominated | ''Music of the Heart'' |
2000 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | Won | ''Music of the Heart'' |
2001 | Black Reel Award | Best Actress in a Theatrical Film | Nominated | ''Boseman and Lena'' |
2001 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture | Nominated | ''Boseman and Lena'' |
2002 | Black Reel Award | Best Actress in a Network or Cable Film | Won | ''Ruby's Bucket of Blood'' |
2002 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special | Won | ''Ruby's Bucket of Blood'' |
2002 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | Won | '''' |
2002 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries | Nominated | ''Ruby's Bucket of Blood'' |
2003 | Black Reel Award | Best Actress in a Theatrical Film | Won | |
2003 | Black Reel Award | Best Actress in a Network or Cable Film | Won | '''' |
2002 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Mini-Series or Television Movie | Nominated | '''' |
2003 | Daytime Emmy Award | Outstanding Children's Special | Nominated (shared nomination) | ''Our America'' |
2003 | Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture | Won | ''Sunshine State'' | |
2003 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture | Won | ''Sunshine State'' |
2003 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special | Won | '''' |
2005 | Black Reel Award | Best Actress, Musical or Comedy | Nominated | ''Mr. 3000'' |
2005 | BET Award | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Theatrical Film | Nominated | ''Mr. 3000'' |
2005 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture | Nominated | ''Mr. 3000'' |
2006 | Black Movie Award | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role | Won | ''Akeelah and the Bee'' |
2007 | Black Reel Award | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | ''Akeelah and the Bee |
2007 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | Nominated | ''Akeelah and the Bee'' |
2009 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture | Nominated | |
2007 | NAACP Image Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Won | |
2010 | Black Reel Award | As a member of the Best Ensemble | Nominated | |
In to addition to her awards and nominations for individual performances, Bassett was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008.
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Coordinates | 41°52′55″N87°37′40″N |
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Name | The Books |
Background | group_or_band |
Origin | New York City, New York, United States |
Genre | Folktronica, experimental, sound collage |
Formed | 2000 |
Years active | 2000–present |
Label | Tomlab, Temporary Residence Limited |
Website | www.thebooksmusic.com |
Current members | Nick ZammutoPaul de Jong |
Past members | }} |
The Books are an American duo, formed in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. Their releases typically incorporate samples of obscure sounds and speech. They have released three critically acclaimed albums on the German label Tomlab, and recently released their fourth studio album, ''The Way Out'', on Temporary Residence Limited.
In 2000, The Books started work on what would become their début album ''Thought for Food''. Zammuto and de Jong moved locations constantly during this time, recording in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and finally in the basement of a hostel in North Carolina where Zammuto worked for a while after hiking the Appalachian Trail.
''Thought for Food'' was released on October 22nd, 2002. Praised by critics for its distinctive sound, it featured extensive sampling from obscure sources coupled with mostly acoustic instrumentation.
''The Lemon of Pink'' was released to critical acclaim on October 7th, 2003. It is similar in style to ''Thought for Food'', but oriented more around vocals performed mostly by Anne Doerner.
On April 5, 2005, The Books released their third studio album, ''Lost and Safe''. Zammuto has a greater vocal presence in this album, and the album was criticized for this change of sound. Aside from this, ''Lost and Safe'' was well received by critics. Throughout early 2005, The Books collobarated with the electronica artist Prefuse 73. The Books appear on his album Surrounded by Silence ("Pagina Dos"), and the E.P. ''Prefuse 73 Reads the Books E.P.'' collects remixes of material sourced from The Books' albums.
Before starting a three-month tour of North America in April 2006, The Books had played only one concert, in October 2003 at a festival in Chicago, Illinois. Zammuto has expressed apprehensiveness towards touring, but says it is necessary to make a living, given the financial strain he's put under due to people downloading The Books' music via file-sharing.
In 2007, The Books released ''Play All'', a DVD of thirteen music videos and three previously unreleased tracks. The ''Play All'' videos are composed of found footage transformed into a collage that matches their music. The Books often screen these videos during their live performances.
The Books toured heavily between 2005 and 2007, including two tours in Europe and two Canadian shows. In early 2009 The Books covered the Nick Drake song "Cello Song" in collaboration with José González for the Red Hot Organization's ''Dark Was the Night'' fund-raising album.
The Books began working on ''The Way Out'' in late 2008. Zammuto spoke of the album's New Age themes in an interview in April 2009, saying they took samples from self-help and hypnotherapy cassettes. When asked to describe the album, Zammuto said "You're getting verrry sleepy." On April 5, 2010, the duo announced that ''The Way Out'' would be released through Temporary Residence Limited in July. On April 27 Pitchfork Media began streaming the track "Beautiful People", which Zammuto described as "a three part christian harmony mixed with a sort of euro-disco-trash beat, an orchestra’s worth of sampled brass and lyrics about the twelfth root of two (my favorite irrational number), trigonometry and tangrams". The album was released on July 20.
The Books played the ATP New York 2010 music festival in Monticello, New York, in September 2010 and are currently touring North American tour with the Black Heart Procession. The band have been chosen by Portishead & ATP to perform at the ATP I'll Be Your Mirror festival that they will curate in July 2011 at London's Alexandra Palace.
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