A poll conducted in partnership with Stanford suggests that Barack Obama could lose a close election to John McCain because of voters' feelings about race.

Tagged: election, race, voting, Public Service, Humanities & Sciences

In China, only 5% of rural poor students go on to pursue higher education compared to 70% of their counterparts in urban areas. Stanford researchers are working in rural China to help improve education through a combination of direct interventions and scientific research.

Tagged: China, International Initiative, poverty, youth, International Issues, K-12 Education, Public Service, Education

WHEN A CORPORATE SCANDAL throws a company into crisis or even destroys it, many onlookers’ reaction is that the people involved must have been immoral. Yet it’s easier than most people realize for ordinary, well-meaning people to get caught up in activities they should have known were wrong. Stanford researchers discuss how to create a structure that reduces the chances of cheating.

Tagged: ethics, Public Service, Business

Stanford professors and an army of 13 graduate and undergraduate students have found that there are major differences in the “bang for the buck” from different technologies proposed for reducing the California’s greenhouse gas emissions by 170 million metric tons a year.

Tagged: California, climate change, conservation, economics, Precourt Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, Public Service, Engineering

Through Stanford's diverse legal clinics, students and professors provide services to people who otherwise couldn't get them. These experiences also serve as a bridge between the classroom and real-world cases involving fundamental rights and vital public issues - often inspiring a commitment to ongoing public service.

Tagged: lawyers, legal clinics, Public Service, Law

Paul Wise found inspiration for his life's work in a village in Guatemala. As a college student at Cornell, keen to explore the world, he signed up to spend a summer working as an orderly at a children's hospital outside Guatemala City. When he arrived, he was shocked to find many children suffering and dying from preventable diseases such as dysentery and measles. He made a pledge then to work to improve the healthcare of the world's most vulnerable children.

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

While nanotechnology has enormous potential, its possible effects on society are a focus of persistent controversy. These matters are of such concern in the field of nanotechnology, as opposed to other technologies, because the enormous projected benefits conceivably conceal substantial ills.

 

 

Tagged: ethics, nanotechnology, On Campus, Public Service, Education, Engineering

In his 40-year career, Professor Martin Carnoy has studied education in countries throughout Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Trained as a labor economist, he has a special interest in how changes in the world economy affect education and how education affects a country's competitive prospects.

Tagged: economics, International Initiative, Latin America, Middle East, schools, International Issues, K-12 Education, Public Service, Education

Most Americans have heard that the United States lags China and India in math and science education, but they often dismiss that reality, assuming that the leaders emphasize rote learning at the expense of teaching well-rounded original thinking.

Tagged: China, India, learning, schools, United States, International Issues, K-12 Education, Public Service, Business, Education

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