Editing Stanford University (section)

=== Research centers and institutes ===
{{Main|Stanford University centers and institutes}}

Stanford is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity."<ref name="Carnegie"/> The university's research expenditure in fiscal years of 2021/22 was $1.82 billion and the total number of sponsored projects was 7,900.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stanford Facts |url=https://facts.stanford.edu/ |website=stanford.edu |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=January 22, 2022 |archive-date=January 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120020326/https://facts.stanford.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> By 2016, the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research oversaw [[Stanford University centers and institutes|eighteen independent laboratories, centers, and institutes]]. [[Kathryn Moler|Kathryn Ann Moler]] is the key person for leading those research centers for choosing problems, faculty members, and students. Funding is also provided for undergraduate and graduate students by those labs, centers, and institutes for collaborative research.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://doresearch.stanford.edu/node/1200502 |title=Interdisciplinary Laboratories, Centers, and Institutes |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=October 27, 2016 |archive-date=October 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027192357/https://doresearch.stanford.edu/node/1200502 |url-status=live }}</ref> Other Stanford-affiliated institutions include the [[SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory]] (originally the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), the [[Stanford Research Institute]] (an independent institution which originated at the university), the [[Hoover Institution]] (a conservative [[think tank]]),<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019 |title=Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to Return to Hoover Institution |work=U.S. News |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-03-19/former-defense-secretary-jim-mattis-to-return-to-hoover-institution |access-date=November 16, 2020 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234022/https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-03-19/former-defense-secretary-jim-mattis-to-return-to-hoover-institution |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Hasso Plattner Institute of Design]] (a multidisciplinary design school in cooperation with the [[Hasso Plattner Institute]] of [[University of Potsdam]] that integrates product design, engineering, and business management education).
[[File:Hoover Tower Stanford January 2013.jpg|thumb|upright|Hoover Tower, inspired by the cathedral tower at [[Salamanca]] in Spain]]
Stanford is home to the [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] Research and Education Institute, which grew out of and still contains the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, a collaboration with the [[King Center for Nonviolent Social Change|King Center]] to publish the King papers held by the King Center.<ref>{{cite web |title=The King Papers Project |date=June 11, 2014 |url=http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/index/ |publisher=The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute |access-date=August 4, 2012 |archive-date=March 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315034339/http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/index |url-status=dead }}</ref> It also runs the [[John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists|John S. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists]] and the Center for Ocean Solutions, which brings together marine science and policy to address challenges facing the ocean. It focuses on five points: climate change, overfishing, coastal development, pollution, and plastics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://woods.stanford.edu/research/centers-programs/center-ocean-solutions |title=Center for Ocean Solutions |publisher=Stanford Woods |access-date=April 16, 2014 |archive-date=September 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911084001/https://woods.stanford.edu/research/centers-programs/center-ocean-solutions |url-status=dead }}</ref> Together with [[UC Berkeley]] and [[UC San Francisco]], Stanford is part of the [[Biohub]], a new medical science research center founded in 2016 by a $600 million commitment from Facebook CEO and founder [[Mark Zuckerberg]] and pediatrician [[Priscilla Chan]]. This medical research center is working for designing advanced-level health care units.<ref>{{Cite news |title=CNN Business News |work=CNN |url=https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/21/technology/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-3-billion-health-disease/index.html |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234015/https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/21/technology/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-3-billion-health-disease/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>