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Tom Gilligan Assumes Hoover Directorship

Friday, October 16, 2015
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Thomas W. Gilligan, who took the helm as the new Tad and Dianne Taube Director at the Hoover Institution in early September, recently addressed staff and fellows about his initial plans and impressions. He began by acknowledging and recognizing his predecessor, John Raisian, who led the institution for twenty-six productive years.

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Senator McCain Gives Hoover Institution National Security Mentees A Master Class In Foreign Policy

Thursday, October 15, 2015
Stanford University

U.S. Senator John McCain told a select group of Stanford undergraduate students that technological innovation had created both unparalleled opportunities for the United States as well as new national security risks, during a visit to Silicon Valley this week.

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Curator Anatol Shmelev Interviewed For Two-Part TV Series In Ukraine

Thursday, October 15, 2015

On September 26-27 and October 3-4, the Kultura Channel in Ukraine aired an interview with Anatol Shmelev, Hoover fellow and curator of Russian and Eurasian collections at Hoover Library & Archives. Shmelev discussed how Hoover Library & Archives inform and support the extensive amount of research conducted at the institution.
 

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Zygmunt Iwanowski in his studio circa 1930 (Zygmunt Iwanowski Papers)
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Papers Of Painter Zygmunt Iwanowski, Friend Of Paderewski, Acquired By Hoover Archives

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Hoover’s documentation on Ignacy Paderewski and the restoration of Poland after World War I has expanded substantially during the past several years, first with the acquisition of the papers of Ernest Schelling, Paderewski’s American student and friend, which included the memoirs of Helena Paderewska, and now with the arrival of the archives of Zygmunt Iwanowski (1874–1944), another of the prime minister’s close associates and supporters.

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Hoover fellow Sidney Drell discusses the life and work of physicist and human rights advocate Andrei Sakharov.
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Hoover Fellow Sidney Drell Discusses The Life And Legacy Of Andrei Sakharov

Friday, October 9, 2015

On October 8th, Hoover Library & Archives hosted Hoover senior fellow Sidney Drell as part of its History and Policy lecture series. Drell is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Laboratory, a renowned scholar whose papers are housed at Hoover Archives, and most recently the editor, along with distinguished Hoover fellow George P. Shultz, of Andrei Sakharov: The Conscience of Humanity. During Thursday's talk Professor Drell shared with the audience the story of his long personal and professional relationship with the Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist and human rights campaigner Andrei Sakharov, who faced internal exile and persecution in the USSR for his continued efforts to deter armament during the Cold War.

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