Stanford, California and Related Topics

Stanford University

Statue of the Stanford family on the Stanford University campus

Ichthyologist and founding president of Stanford, David Starr Jordan.

William Shockley, Stanford professor, Nobel laureate in physics, "Father of Silicon Valley"

An aerial photograph of the center of the Stanford University campus in 2008.

Marc Tessier-Lavigne is the president of Stanford University.

The original Golden spike on display at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University

Hoover Tower, inspired by the cathedral tower at Salamanca in Spain

Bronze statues by Auguste Rodin are scattered throughout the campus, including these Burghers of Calais.

Felix Bloch, physics professor, 1952 Nobel laureate for his work at Stanford

Vint Cerf (BS 1965), co-leader of the Stanford team that designed the architecture of the internet

Many students use bicycles to get around the large campus.

The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band rallies football fans with arrangements of "All Right Now" and other contemporary music.

Herbert Hoover (BS 1895), 31st President of the United States, founder of Hoover Institution at Stanford, recipient of the Uncommon Man award

John F. Kennedy (attended 1940 ), 35th President of the United States

Interior of the Stanford Memorial Church at the center of the Main Quad

Hoover Tower, at {{convert|285|ft|m}}, the tallest building on campus

thumb|The new (2006) Stanford Stadium, site of home football games

Stanford Quad with Memorial Church in the background

The Dish, a {{convert|150|ft|m}} diameter radio telescope on the Stanford foothills overlooking the main campus

Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university located in the census-designated place of Stanford, California, near the city of Palo Alto.

Palo Alto, California

Charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.

Palo Alto is named after El Palo Alto, a historic 110 ft California Redwood on the banks of the San Francisquito Creek, sighted and named by the Portolà expedition in 1769.

Part of an 1890 map of northern Santa Clara County including all or part of the towns of University Park, Palo Alto (now College Terrace in Palo Alto), Mayfield. Also shows Stanford University (still under construction at the time.)

University Avenue at the Circle with train steaming toward El Palo Alto, 1894

The main entrance of the HP headquarters building

The main entrance of the former Tesla Motors headquarters

The Rinconada branch of the Palo Alto City Library

Commuters at Palo Alto Station boarding Caltrain

Oak tree at Esther Clark Park in Palo Alto

Stanford University is adjacent to Palo Alto

The city was established by Leland Stanford when he founded Stanford University, following the death of his son, Leland Stanford Jr. Palo Alto includes portions of Stanford University and borders East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park.

Stanford Shopping Center

Upscale open air shopping mall located on Route 82 at Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, California.

Also, unlike the rest of the campus, the shopping center and the neighboring Stanford University Medical Center are part of the city of Palo Alto, not the census-designated place (CDP) of Stanford, California.

Stanford University Medical Center

Medical complex which includes Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children's Health.

Stanford Health Care is located at 500 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, California.

Census-designated place

Concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.

The area may contain an easily recognizable institution, usually occupying a large land area, with an identity distinct from the surrounding community. This could apply to some college campuses and large military bases (or parts of a military base) that are not within the limits of any existing community, such as Notre Dame, Indiana, Stanford, California (which houses the Stanford University campus), Fort Campbell North, Kentucky, and Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.