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7 Notable Stanford faculty and affiliates
- Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
- Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winning physics professor. Professor at Stanford from 1987 to 2004.
- Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institute
- Donald Knuth, creator of TeX and computer science pioneer and professor emeritus
- Robert Laughlin, Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, Professor at Stanford from 1989 to 2004.
- Lawrence Lessig, IP and constitutional law professor
- John McCarthy, responsible for the coining of the term Artificial Intelligence, and inventor of the Lisp programming language.
- Douglas Osheroff, Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
- Martin Perl , Nobel Prize winning physics professor
- Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
- Paul Berg, Nobel Prize-winning chemistry professor
8 Stanford athletics
Stanford participates in the NCAA's Division I-A and forms part of the Pac-10 athletic conference. It also has membership in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation for indoor track (men and women), water polo (men and women), women's gymnastics, women's lacrosse, men's gymnastics, and men's volleyball. Stanford's traditional sports rival is Cal. Stanford has won the NACDA Director's Cup (formerly known as the Sears Cup) every year for the past ten years (the award has been offered the past eleven years), honoring the first-ranked collegiate athletic program in the United States.
Stanford offers 34 varsity sports (18 female, 15 male, one coed), 19 club sports and 37 intramural sports—about 800 students participate in intercollegiate sports. The University offers about 300 athletic scholarships.
The winner of the annual " Big Game" between the Cal and Stanford football teams gains custody of the Axe. Stanford's football team played in the first Rose Bowl in 1902, losing 49-0 to the University of Michigan. Stanford has played in 12 Rose Bowls, most recently in 2000.
Formerly the Stanford Indians (from 1930 to 1972), that mascot was changed in the 1970s because it was politically incorrect. The Stanford sports teams are now officially referred to as the Stanford Cardinal (the color, not the bird), but the band's mascot, The Tree, is often mistaken as the school's mascot. Part of Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB), the tree symbol derives from the El Palo Alto redwood tree on the Stanford and City of Palo Alto seals.
