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2024: Stanford remembers

Members of the Stanford community remember those who have passed away in 2024.

January

N. Scott Momaday, AM ’60, PhD ’63, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and member of the English faculty from 1972 to 1981, died Jan. 24 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Alistair Philip, MD, professor emeritus of pediatrics who made significant advances in understanding and treating infections in newborns, died Jan. 21.

Gordon Taylor, MD, adjunct clinical professor emeritus of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine, died Jan. 14 in Wailuku, Hawaii.

February

Sarah Muller, visiting doctoral student researcher in the Department of Classics and a fellow at the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, died Feb. 19 in Palo Alto.

Karen Weiss Mulder, BA ’94, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at the Hoover Institution, died Feb. 2 in Cooke County, Texas.