Persis S. Drell

Persis S. Drell

Board Member at Nvidia
Company Tenure: 8 years
Education:
Wellesley College (B.A.) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)
Biography:

Persis S. Drell has been the Provost of Stanford University since 2017. A Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Physics, Dr. Drell has been on the faculty at Stanford since 2002, and was the Dean of the Stanford School of Engineering from 2014 to 2017. She also served as the Director of SLAC from 2007 to 2012. Dr. Drell is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. Dr. Drell holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and an AB degree in Mathematics and Physics from Wellesley College.

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Affiliated Companies

Nvidia

Nvidia

Key Statements

"To be fully engaged citizens in the 21st century, we need to embrace diversity in all aspects of life, not just in the workplace, not just on a campus."

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"If we want to be outstanding in the decades to come, we have to embrace that diversity today. Stanford's goals are to have diversity, broadly interpreted, represented in all aspects of our community."

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"We need to continue to increase the diversity of our professoria. A diverse student body needs to see a diverse faculty."

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"We have a presidential initiative. Ideal inclusion, diversity, equity and access in a learning community."

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