[zdean]

For clarity, that's "Leland Stanford Junior University"

[vmarsy]

submission title was already too long, Stanford University wouldn't fit, "Leland Stanford Junior University"[1] even less :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University

[justboxing]

"Pharma Company Wins $1M in legal fees from Patent Troll & Stanford University"

How about that? 78 characters long (within the 80char HN title limit).

[rkho]

Leland Stanford Junior University is the longform name of the Stanford in Palo Alto we all know.

[mark_element]

Yup. I feel like I won a small prize at some point on a campus tour for knowing this fact.

[dkural]

I think the long form is less clear - Stanford University is the common name. Stanford is a fine and commonly used abbreviation. Many people don't know the full, long name.

[m-j-fox]

One point of confusion is that there's a Stanford Health Care, despised corporation with some relationship to the school but not exactly the same thing.