Stanford students team with their peers at Makerere University in Kampala to examine their preconceptions of each other.

Tagged: Africa, dance, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences

The photos Sherry Wren, MD, brought back from the Democratic Republic of Congo aren't your typical summer-vacation shots. On her computer screen, an armored personnel carrier lumbers down a rutted road. She scrolls to another page, which shows an 8-year-old boy with an infected gunshot wound on his leg. "It's from a high-velocity military weapon that makes a big hole when it comes out," Wren explains. "The exit wound is really bad."

Tagged: Africa, Human Health, International Issues, Public Service, Medicine

Roughly 75% of people living in poverty worldwide are in rural areas where they often lack access to the electricity that could be used to improve farm yields. Stanford researchers are working on a program to bring solar-powered drip irrigation to Benin and assess its effectiveness.

Tagged: Africa, farming, International Initiative, poverty, solar, Environment & Sustainability, International Issues, Earth Sciences

Researchers at Stanford and at universities in Africa and Latin America are pushing the boundaries of distance learning to develop new collaborative models that will prepare students to work in an increasingly borderless world.

Tagged: Africa, Chile, Latin America, learning, Mexico, Tanzania, International Issues, K-12 Education, On Campus

Long a dream of his father, an obstetrician/gynecologist who moved to Chicago from his Nigerian home in 1974, Afam Onyema's goal to build a hospital in Nigeria has become an all-consuming passion.

Tagged: Africa, hospitals, Nigeria, Human Health, International Issues, Public Service, Law

Many of the world's poorest regions could face severe crop losses in the next two decades because of climate change, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford Program on Food Security and the Environment (FSE). Their findings were published in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Science.

Tagged: Africa, Asia, climate change, farming, poverty, Environment & Sustainability, International Issues

In the vast expanse of African grasslands, wild herds of migrating elephants have learned to communicate with each other by listening with their feet to vibrations in the ground. Now a Stanford University School of Medicine researcher has found their seismic communication system is so sophisticated the elephants have their own version of "caller ID."

Tagged: Africa, Bio-X, Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program, elephants, Engineering, Medicine