Annelise Barron, assistant professor of bioengineering.

Annelise Barron, assistant professor of bioengineering.

Annelise Barron joined the department of bioengineering last fall, moving from Northwestern. Her work is at the interface of biotechnology, polymer science and medicine.

Her research group is developing new classes of polymers that offer greater stability and more chemical diversity than natural materials have. Recently the group has synthesized, purified and characterized polymers that mimic lung surfactant proteins (potentially useful for fighting lung ailments) and others that mimic antibacterial peptides (potentially useful for fighting infections). The group is also developing novel strategies and materials that include technologies to rapidly screen for genetic mutations related to cancer.

Jonathan Berger, DMA '82, Achilles Professor of Music and Kimball Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

Jonathan Berger, DMA '82, Achilles Professor of Music and Kimball Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

Jonathan Berger teaches composition, computational music theory and music cognition. Together with Bryan Wolf, Berger is co-director of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SICA) and the arts initiative.

The arts initiative seeks to strengthen Stanford's core programs in the arts, improve arts facilities, and expand arts activity both within and beyond Stanford. Berger is an active composer and researcher, with more than 60 publications in music, science and technology. His recent research focuses on music cognition and auditory display. In addition to his research, Berger's creative works include three concerti, as well as orchestral, choral and chamber works. His recent CD in the Naxos Recordings American Masters series has received considerable critical acclaim.

Meg Caldwell, JD '85, director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program; senior lecturer, Stanford Law School and, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Meg Caldwell, JD '85, director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program; senior lecturer, Stanford Law School and, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Meg Caldwell's scholarship focuses on the environmental effects of local land use decisions, the use of science in environmental and marine resource policy development and implementation, application of the public trust doctrine to new challenges posed by climate change, and the development of private and public incentives for natural resource conservation.

She is the former chair of the California Coastal Commission, has served on the board of the California Coastal Conservancy and is a trustee of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Jennifer Cochran, assistant professor of bioengineering.

Jennifer Cochran, assistant professor of bioengineering.

Jennifer Cochran joined the engineering faculty in 2005 as a member of the newly formed department of bioengineering. Her research draws on chemistry, biology and engineering to create molecular tools for investigating biochemical and biophysical mechanisms. Her laboratory uses directed evolution and molecular design techniques to develop proteins and materials with specific biological functions.

Therapeutic applications of the research involve bone and wound healing, nerve cell regeneration, vascular tissue engineering and cancer therapy. Cochran was one of 15 faculty researchers nationwide to receive a prestigious Kimmel Scholar Award, providing a research grant to the nation's most promising young cancer researchers.

Harry J. Elam, Jr., Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Palmer Professor in Humanities and senior associate vice provost for undergraduate education.

Harry J. Elam, Jr., Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Palmer Professor in Humanities and senior associate vice provost for undergraduate education.

Harry J. Elam, Jr., is author and editor of six books, including Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka and The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson. In 2006, Elam was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theater.

He was also the winner of the Betty Jones Award for Outstanding Teaching from the American Theatre and Drama Society, the winner of the Excellence in Editing Award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education and the winner of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Theatre Research. At Stanford, he has been awarded six different teaching awards. Elam has directed both professionally and at academic institutions for more than 18 years, including Fences by August Wilson, winner of eight Bay Area “Choice” Awards.

Robert Joss, MBA '67, PhD '70, Knight Professor and dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Robert Joss, MBA '67, PhD '70, Knight Professor and dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Robert Joss became dean of the Graduate School of Business in 1999, the School's first dean from industry in 17 years. He is an evangelist for the development and practice of good management and organizational leadership. Joss believes management is essential to the execution of new ideas and innovative solutions that can improve lives in an increasingly complex and global world.

He has overseen a new MBA curriculum and plans for a new Business School campus. Before joining Stanford, Joss was CEO of Westpac Banking Corporation, one of Australia's largest banks, where he was credited with leading a very successful and sustained turnaround in its culture and fortunes. Prior to Westpac, Joss spent 22 years at Wells Fargo Bank, rising to vice chairman.

Jeffrey Koseff, MS '78, PhD '83, Campbell Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment; and The Forman University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

Jeffrey Koseff, MS '78, PhD '83, Campbell Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment; and The Forman University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

Jeffrey Koseff's academic work focuses on the interaction between physical and biological systems in natural aquatic environments.

His research activities are in the general area of environmental fluid mechanics and focus on turbulence and internal wave dynamics in stratified flows; transport and mixing in estuarine systems; phytoplankton dynamics in estuarine systems; coral reef, sea-grass, and kelp-forest hydrodynamics and transport processes; and the dispersal of wastes from marine aquaculture systems. Koseff has been the recipient of a number of teaching awards at Stanford. Since 2004 Koseff has served (jointly with Buzz Thompson) as the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Larry Kramer Lang Professor and Dean of the Stanford Law School.

Larry Kramer Lang Professor and Dean of the Stanford Law School.

Considered one of the leading legal scholars in the country, Larry Kramer has contributed path-breaking work in such varied fields as conflict of laws, civil procedure, federalism and its history, and most recently, the role of courts in society.

His book, The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review, sparked renewed interest in the ongoing debate about the relationship between the Supreme Court of the United States and politics, and established Kramer as a maverick in the field of constitutional theory and interpretation. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Law Institute.

Jenny Martinez, associate professor of law and Roach Faculty Scholar.

Jenny Martinez, associate professor of law and Roach Faculty Scholar.

Jenny Martinez's scholarship makes the first major attempt to analyze the ramifications of the increasing number of international tribunals operating in a globalized environment, but without any supervening sovereign authority to which they are all bound.

An experienced litigator, she argued the 2004 case of Rumsfeld v. Padilla before the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to clarify the constitutional protections available to post-9/11 “enemy combatants” who are U.S. citizens. Martinez has also served as a consultant for both Human Rights First and the International Center for Transitional Justice.

Pamela Matson, Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies, senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, and McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

Pamela Matson, Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies, senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, and McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.

Pamela Matson's research focuses on the effects of land use changes on soils, the atmosphere and water in tropical forests and agricultural systems. Her work has shown that land use change and agricultural intensification in the tropics contribute to the increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and other air and water pollutants.

With a multidisciplinary team of investigators, Matson analyzes economic drivers and environmental consequences of land use decisions in developing world agricultural systems, with the goal of developing alternative practices that are economically and environmentally viable. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, and in 1995 she was selected as a MacArthur Fellow.

Michael McFaul, '86, MA '86, professor of political science; senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; and senior fellow, by courtesy, at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Michael McFaul, '86, MA '86, professor of political science; senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; and senior fellow, by courtesy, at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Michael McFaul's current research interests include democracy promotion, comparative democratization, and the relationship between political and economic reform in the postcommunist world. McFaul is a nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

He serves on the board of directors of the Eurasia Foundation, the Firebird Fund, Freedom House, the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy, and the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX). After earning his BA and MA at Stanford, he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, where he completed his PhD in international relations in 1991.

Vinod Menon, CRT '94, associate professor of psychiatry & behavioral sciences and of neuroscience.

Vinod Menon, CRT '94, associate professor of psychiatry & behavioral sciences and of neuroscience.

Vinod Menon is the director and principal investigator of the Stanford Cognitive + Systems Neuroscience Laboratory. He has published more than 85 papers on various aspects of human brain function and dysfunction. Menon's research interests include the cognitive neuroscience of audition and music.

He is the senior author of a recent article published in Neuron, in collaboration with Jonathan Berger, which showed that a one-to two-second pause between movements within symphonies triggers a flurry of mental activity. Menon and Berger regularly collaborate on teaching and research in the field of music and neuroscience.

Ian Morris, Willard Professor in Classics.

Ian Morris, Willard Professor in Classics.

Ian Morris is the Willard Professor of Classics and a professor of history. From 2000 through 2007 he directed Stanford's archaeological excavations at Monte Polizzo, a sixth-century BCE town in Sicily. His most recent book is The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (2007), co-edited with Richard Saller and Walter Scheidel.

He is currently working on a new book titled Why the West Rules for Now, a long-term comparative history of the East and the West. He has served as chair of the Classics department, associate dean of Humanities and Sciences, director of the Social Science History Institute, and director of the Stanford Archaeology Center.

Rosamond Naylor, PhD '89, senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and at the Woods Institute for the Environment; director of the Program on Food Security and the Environment; and director of the Goldman Honors Program in Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy.

Rosamond Naylor, PhD '89, senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and at the Woods Institute for the Environment; director of the Program on Food Security and the Environment; and director of the Goldman Honors Program in Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy.

Rosamond Naylor has been involved in a number of field-level research projects throughout the world concerning issues of aquaculture production, high-input agricultural development, biotechnology, climate-induced yield variability, and food security.

Her research focuses on the environmental and equity dimensions of intensive food production. Naylor has served on the Oversight Committee for the McKnight Foundation's Collaborative Crop Research Program since 1997. She was named Fellow in the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program in Environmental Sciences in 1999 and Pew Fellow in Conservation and the Environment in 1994.

William Perry, '49, MS '50, Berberian Professor and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

William Perry, '49, MS '50, Berberian Professor and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

William Perry serves as co-director of the Preventive Defense Project, a research collaboration of Stanford and Harvard Universities. He is an expert in U.S. foreign policy, national security and arms control. Perry was the 19th secretary of defense for the United States, serving from February 1994 to January 1997.

He previously served as deputy secretary of defense (1993–1994) and as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering (1977–1981). He is on the board of directors of LGS Bell Labs Innovations, as well as several emerging high-tech companies, and is chairman of Global Technology Partners. From 1946 to 1947, Perry was an enlisted man in the Army Corps of Engineers, and served in the Army of Occupation in Japan. He has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and decorations from the governments of Albania, Bahrain, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Poland, Slovenia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Perry was also recently appointed to the Defense Policy Board by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.

James Plummer, MS '67, PhD '71, Terman Dean of the School of Engineering and Fluke Professor of Electrical Engineering.

James Plummer, MS '67, PhD '71, Terman Dean of the School of Engineering and Fluke Professor of Electrical Engineering.

Jim Plummer has been the dean of the School of Engineering since 1999. He joined the faculty in the department of electrical engineering in 1978, and a major focus of his work in the 1980s and '90s was on silicon process modeling. His recent work has focused on nanoscale silicon devices for processing and memory.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the IEEE. He has graduated more than 80 PhD students with whom he has published more than 400 journal papers and conference presentations. As dean, he has emphasized interdisciplinary research focused on meeting grand challenges such as human health and environmental sustainability.

Richard Saller, Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences and professor of classics and of history.

Richard Saller, Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences and professor of classics and of history.

Richard Saller became the dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences on April 1, 2007. Saller came to Stanford from the University of Chicago, where he served as provost. Saller's research has concentrated on Roman social and economic history; in particular, patronage relations, the family and the imperial economy.

He uses literary, legal and epigraphic materials to investigate issues of social hierarchy, gender distinctions and economic production with the aid of current social science theory. Saller is the author of several books, including Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family and Personal Patronage Under the Early Empire. In 2005 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Stephen Stedman, '79, MA '85, director of the Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies; senior fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; and professor, by courtesy, of political science.

Stephen Stedman, '79, MA '85, director of the Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies; senior fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; and professor, by courtesy, of political science.

Stephen Stedman joined Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) in 1997. His current research addresses the future of international organizations and institutions, an area of study inspired by his recent work at the United Nations.

In the fall of 2003 Stedman was recruited to serve as the research director of the U.N. High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. The panel was created by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to analyze global security threats and propose far-reaching reforms to the international system. On completion of the panel's report, A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, Annan asked Stedman to stay on at the U.N. as a special advisor with the rank of assistant secretary-general, to help gain worldwide support in implementing the panel's recommendations.

Deborah Stipek, Quillen Dean of the Stanford School of Education.

Deborah Stipek, Quillen Dean of the Stanford School of Education.

Deborah Stipek's scholarship concerns instructional effects on children's achievement motivation, early childhood education, elementary education and school reform. In addition to her scholarship, Stipek has an interest in policies affecting children and education.

She served for five years on the Board on Children, Youth and Families at the National Research Council; she was the chair of the National Research Council Committee for Increasing High School Students' Engagement and Motivation to Learn; and she directed the MacArthur Foundation Network on Teaching and Learning. While a professor at UCLA, Stipek served as director of the Corinne Seeds University Elementary School and the Urban Education Studies Center.

Blakey Vermeule, associate professor of English.

Blakey Vermeule, associate professor of English.

Blakey Vermeule's research interests include cognitive approaches to literature, British literature from 1660 to 1800, critical theory, major British poets, postcolonial fiction and the history of the novel.

She is the author of The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain. She is currently working on the manuscript of her second book, Making Sense of Fictional People: A Literary and Cognitive Project, which blends historical and literary analysis with cognitive psychology.

Peter Vitousek, Yeung University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Morrison Professor in Population and Resources Studies, senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and, by courtesy, at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Peter Vitousek, Yeung University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Morrison Professor in Population and Resources Studies, senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and, by courtesy, at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Peter Vitousek's research focuses on ecosystems, including understanding the processes that maintain soil fertility and plant productivity in tropical forests, evaluating interactions between ecosystems and societies in the Pacific (prior to European contact), and using the Hawaiian Islands as a model system to understand how the world works.

Vitousek has devoted his career to studying Earth's metabolism and life cycles. He is particularly interested in how forests are altered by people and the introduction of new plants and animals.