Wednesday, February 17
Charles Junkerman, Associate Provost and Dean of Continuing Studies
In 2001, when British artist Andy Goldsworthy was invited to Stanford to build a sculpture he was immediately drawn to the warm yellow sandstone of the campus’ oldest buildings. He designed "Stone River" as an expression of what he saw in the stone – that it was mobile and alive, on a trajectory through time, flowing like a river.
In this talk will be accompanied by more than 300 photographs. (more...)
5:15 - 6:30 pm / History Corner, Main Quad (Building 200, Room2)
One Hundred Years of Medicine at Stanford
by Philip A. Pizzo, M.D.
Dean of Stanford’s School of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and
Immunology
People who are interested in history know that it’s really the narrative story of individuals rather than institutions; the culture of an institution, too, is largely defined by individuals. That is certainly the case regarding the genesis and evolution of Stanford’s School of Medicine.
In 1859, a physician named Elias Samuel Cooper founded the first medical college on the Pacific Coast, which was the precursor of Stanford Medical School. The college—originally called the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific—was located in San Francisco near Third and Mission streets. Its classes included medicine, pathology, chemistry, obstetrics, diseases of women and children, physiology, anatomy, surgery, and medical jurisprudence. Cooper had moved from the Midwest to California in 1855, and he considered San Francisco one of the best places in the country to study medicine. Nowhere else, he argued, were winds and weather conditions so favorable for dissection, and with all its vice, disorder, and disease, the city offered abundant and varied clinical material. (read more)
