Ingram Olkin applied new and innovative statistical models to uncover new insights in behavioral, medical and social sciences, and is best known for developing statistical analyses for evaluating education policies. He was also an ardent supporter of improving the stature of women in the field of statistics.
"What I most enjoy is seeing students, particularly those who have had difficult kinds of financial problems, graduate and go on to successful careers," Huff said in a 1991 interview with "Campus Report." "That's what makes it all worthwhile."
The professor emeritus who paved the way for everything from complex chips to crash-proof computers, and who trained 75 PhDs, also loved quirky hats and nature.
Herbert Abrams' multi-faceted career embraced patient care, teaching and medical research as well as a passionate advocacy for world peace. A memorial will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19, at the Arrillaga Alumni Center.
Hailed for the discovery of superplastic steel, Sherby was a professor at Stanford for 30 years. He was known on campus for his affable manner and for organizing volleyball matches and poker games.
Henry S. Rowen, an American policymaker and economist at Stanford, died on Nov. 12 at the age of 90. He was a leading scholar on U.S. and Asian economic growth and a national security expert.
A member of the prestigious Académie Française, René Girard was called "the new Darwin of the human sciences." His many books offered a bold, sweeping vision of human nature, human history and human destiny. He died Nov. 4 at 91.
Nathan Rosenberg, the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy, Emeritus, in Stanford's Department of Economics, died Aug. 24 at the Vi at Palo Alto, at the age of 87.
