History of the School of Humanities and Sciences

1981
Biologist Norman Wessells is appointed Dean.

Arthur Schawlow wins the Nobel Prize in Physics.

1982
The School's outside advisory group, the Humanities and Sciences Council, is created.

1983
Henry Taube wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Four H&S faculty receive MacArthur Fellowships (also known as "genius grants"): William Durham (Anthropology),

Bradley Efron (Statistics), Alexander George (Political Science), and Richard Schoen (Mathematics).

1984
The Overseas Studies Program joins H&S.

1985
The Computer Science Department moves to the School of Engineering.

1986
The Humanities and Sciences Forum is launched, providing friends of H&S with an opportunity to join in discussions led by the School's most distinguished faculty.

1988
Dean Norman Wessells is appointed Provost of the University of Oregon. Professor of Psychology Ewart Thomas assumes the deanship.

The Western Culture requirement is transformed into the Program in Cultures, Ideas and Values.

Stanford in Washington is founded.

1991
39 endowed professorships are raised for H&S during the Centennial Campaign.

1993
Economist John Shoven takes office as the tenth Dean of H&S.

Professor of Political Science Condoleezza Rice is named Provost.

1994
The Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages is created and includes the departments of Asian Languages, Comparative Literature, French and Italian, German Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Spanish and Portuguese.

Students stage a four-day hunger strike in support of Chicano and Asian American studies, and the Dean's Office organizes faculty/ student committees to examine the issue.

Stanford alumni and longtime benefactors William Hewlett and David Packard donate $77. 4 million for the Science and Engineering Quad, which includes a new building for Statistics and a state-of-the-art teaching facility.

History of the School of Humanities and Sciences

1971-1980

1995-1997