As president-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office, his transition teams are drawing on several Stanford scholars to help shape the policies and ideas of his administration.

Tagged: Obama, Public Service

Eighty seven boxes of William Rehnquist's Supreme Court files, notebooks and journals, donated to the Hoover Institution, give a behind-the-scenes perspective on the Supreme Court terms between 1969 and 1974.

Tagged: Supreme Court, Public Service, Law

VIDEO: He helped transform poor women into entrepreneurs and beggars into businesspeople. Now Muhammad Yunus is encouraging the next generation of financial thinkers to follow his lead of putting people in front of profits.

Tagged: Nobel Prize, International Issues, Public Service

VIDEO STORY: Made up your mind who to vote for? Maybe it's because you like the looks of the candidate. Or maybe it's because the candidate looks a little like you, even if you don't realize it. In a soon-to-be-published paper, Stanford professors say that people are subconsciously swayed by candidates who share their facial features.

Tagged: election, politics, Public Service, Engineering

In the month since Stanford put 10 of its most popular computer science and electrical engineering courses on the Internet and made them available—for free—to anyone in the world, 200,000 people have visited the site Stanford Engineering Everywhere.

Tagged: learning, Public Service, Engineering

With John McCain and Barack Obama throwing political punches over how to deal with the country's financial crisis, you might think a face-off between a pair of their economic advisers would get ugly.

Think again.

Tagged: democracy, economics, International Issues, Public Service, 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

Stanford alumnus and Newark Mayor Cory Booker spoke to a packed Cubberley Auditorium last week.

Tagged: alumni, government, Public Service, Humanities & Sciences

For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world.

Tagged: learning, Public Service, Engineering

Since the government announced its takeover plan of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, stock markets in the United States and around the world have rallied and mortgage rates have dropped. But the latest turn in the credit crisis is far from over. Professor David Duffie puts the recent developments in context.

Tagged: Banking, Economy, Public Service, Business