Welcome to the page of the Polish Club at Stanford University

Witaj na stronie Klubu Polskiego na Stanford University

The Polish Club at Stanford University was set up in October 2007 with the aim of helping Polish, Polish-American, and Polofile students get in touch, interact and form relationships that will last beyond Stanford. We also aim to raise awareness about issues of importance to Poland's development.






Stanford University in a nutshell: Stanford is a world-leading higher education institution based in the Northern California, south of San Francisco. It is the second/third (depending on returns) richest University in the world and is consistently ranked in the top-3 spot of US- and world-leading university rankings.

Stanford, in essence, was a key ingredient in the beginning of what is Silicon Valley today. Today the school remains at the center of academic research, entrepreneurship and innovation in the Valley. Some of the world's best companies that have been founded here on campus include Hewlett-Packard, Google, Cisco, Yahoo, SUN Microsystems, Nike &numerous others. For insight into research, education, campus life and the school check the links below:

About Stanford

Welcome to Stanford

Stanford Facts 2007







 

About us

The 2007-2008 Committee:
President: Robert Kowalski , rkowal@st...
Financial Officer: Przemyslaw Jeziorski , przemekj@st...
Calendar Officer: Bartlomiej Imielski , imielski@...


2007 Co-Founding members:
Radek Goral (LLM, Law School)
Krzysztof Bocian (MBA, Graduate School of Business)
Bartlomiej Imielski (BSc, School of Engineering: Biomechanical Engineering)
Artur Szczepanek (BSc, H&S: Economics)
Przemyslaw Jeziorski (PhD, Graduate School of Business)
Robert Kowalski (MA, H&S: International Policy Studies)


Mailing List: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/polska_mail


Constitution: The Polish Club at Stanford University aims at creating and fostering a community of students from the country of Poland, as well as those interested in our country. The Club also aims at promoting awareness regarding current developments in Poland via lectures and forums organized by Stanford’s various departments and research centers (primarily CREEES, FCE, ICA) and local organizations.


Web pages of Poland-affiliated Stanford students, alumni, as well as current and former academics, post-docs, and researchers:

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Aplikujesz na Stanford?

Dla Licealistow: https://inq.applyyourself.com/?id=su-ugrad&pid=753 

Undergraduate Admissions


Dla Studentow: http://registrar.stanford.edu/pdf/gradadmisguide.pdf

Graduate Admissions


Strony ktore nalezy dokladnie przejrzec:

Stanford Admissions

PSO

PGSN - Aplikanci











Stanford Challenge

Stanford jest wiodaca uczelnia z zakresu przedsiebiorczosci (entrepreneurship), informatyki, inzynierii, innowacji i technologii, biznesu, prawa i nauk spolecznych (w szcz. zarzadzania, ekonomii, politologii) i programow interdyscyplinarnych. Naklady inwesytycyjne uczelni sa ogromne. Atmosfera na uczelni sprzyja nauce i osobistemu rozwojowi. Srodowisko ambitnych i ciezko pracujacych, a jednoczesnie wyluzowanych, studentow oraz profesorow bardzo motywuje do pracy i 'uskrzydla' kazdego, w czym pomaga z pewnoscia po czesci Kalifornijska pogoda..


Najwiekszym problemem polskich studentow wydaja sie byc finanse...

Niekoniecznie! Ponizej krotko wyjasniamy:

• Aplikowac. Jezeli sie nie aplikuje, szanse przyjecia rowne sa zero. Skladajac podanie masz szanse - Stanford Admissions 

• 'Diversity': Stanford przyjmuje wielu miedzynarodowych studentow.
  

• Finanse? Nalezy zaznaczyc na aplikacji, ze wywmaga sie finansowego wsparcia uczelni. Stanford jest bogata uczelnia i sponsoruje wielu miedzynarodowych studentow na poziomie graduate: "All undergraduate financial aid is based on need. Aid for financing graduate study is based on availability of funds and academic merit"

• Niebawem fundusze dla studentow spoza USA sie zwieksza: Stanford Challenge jest kampania ktora ma na celu stworzenie z Stanford wiodacej uczelni XXI wieku (w tym celu uczelnia zbiera ponad $4.3 miliarda na bezposrednie inwestycje, m.in. na stypendia dla miedzynarodowych studentow)

Contact

E-mail: please use Stanford's Public Search Who's Who Directory


Lista mailingowa polskich studentow, naukowcow i osob zwiazanych z Stanford: Sign-up to our mailing list (for Stanford-affiliates only)










Organizations/Links

Silicon Valley

  US-Polish Trade Council


http://polishengineerssv.org/ 



Student Clubs - USA, UK, Canada



Yale University Polish Society

Harvard University Polish Society 

Cornell University Society of Polish Students

Boston University Polish Club

University of Chicago PASA

Northwestern University PASA

University of Michigan Polish Club/

Purdue Polish Student Organization

DePaul Polish Student Association




"American Friendship: Herbert Hoover and Poland"
also here

During one of his early tours of the United States, Ignacy Jan Paderewski played a concert at San Jose, California. This is the story:

Two boys were working their way through Leland Stanford University. When they ran out of funds, they came upon the brilliant idea of staging a concert and hiring Paderewski to play the piano. They had guaranteed the pianist $2,000 (in 1894). They rented a hall, worked hard, sold tickets, and the end result was that they grossed $1600 total. Only a small audience appeared. They sought out the pianist, told him what had happened, handed him the entire $1600, told him they were sorry for misleading him, and gave him a promissory note of $400, promising to send the money in as soon as they managed to accumulate it (they believed this moment was the end of their academic career).

Paderewski said, "no boys, that won’t do." He tore up the note, returned the $1600 and said, "take out of this your expenses, give yourselves each 10% of the balance for your work, and let me have the rest."

Years rolled by, World War I came and went, and in 1919 Paderewski was now Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland. But Poland went into an awful famine after the war, as many of the eastern European countries did. Thousands of people were starving. It seemed like there was very little help to be had.

Suddenly thousands of tons of food and aid began to come into Poland. Paderewski journeyed to Paris to thank the man responsible, Herbert Hoover, who would later become the President of the USA. Hoover in 1919 was director of relief and rehabilitation for relieving Europe’s post-war food shortage. Hoover was responsible for feeding and clothing over 200 million people in less than 3 years. The man was a genius in relief work.

"That’s all right, Mr. Paderewski," was Hoover’s reply. "I knew the need was great. Besides, you don’t remember it, but you helped me once when I was a student at college, and I was in a hole." (Lupton, They Tell a Story, 188-189).


L-R: Paderewski, Hoover, Pilsudski




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