Stanford University President John L. Hennessy, who helped make the prestigious northern California school among the most wealthy and well-connected to nearby Silicon Valley over the last 15 years, will retire next summer, the campus announced Thursday. Hennessy, a computer scientist who was Stanford’s engineering school dean and campus provost before being inaugurated as president in October 2000, said that it was time to return to teaching and research.

June 11, 2015 ・ From Los Angeles Times