A Conversation with Stanford President John Hennessy

Recorded on July 14, 2016 John Hennessy discusses his tenure as president of Stanford University and how he helped make it into an elite school: encouraging technological innovation on campus, working on ideas that push humankind forward and maintain academic excellence, and having one of the best athletic programs in the country. Hennessy notes that one key to Stanfords success is building quality infrastructure around interdisciplinary themes in a crossdisciplinary space, making it possible to fire up