"When people ask me what I'm doing with my new Environmental Engineering PhD from Stanford," says Matthew Davie, "they’re pretty surprised when I tell them that I'm starting a travel agency." Ask a few more questions, though, and it starts to make sense.

Tagged: alumni, conservation, ecotravel, tourism, Environment & Sustainability, International Issues, Public Service, Business, Engineering

When Al Gore met the press in Palo Alto on October 12 to discuss the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, four Stanford researchers stood by his side.

Tagged: climate change, International Initiative, Nobel Prize, Environment & Sustainability, International Issues, Public Service, Earth Sciences

In India, HIV/AIDS is tough to talk about. Even as 2.5 million infected Indians spread the virus, many states have banned sex education in schools, and cultural taboos discourage people from seeking information on their own.

Tagged: aids, India, International Issues, Public Service, Education, Humanities & Sciences, Medicine

Full video of the 10 week Google.org course on poverty and development, moderated by Stanford Program on Global Justice Director, Joshua Cohen, is now available on YouTube.com.

Tagged: development, poverty, teaching, Human Health, International Issues, Public Service, Humanities & Sciences

Research by Jon Krosnick, professor of communication, helps solve the mystery of why pre-election polls were so wrong in the January 2008 New Hampshire Democratic primary.

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

Three young Americans and the Stanford Asian Liver Center seek to stop hepatitus B in China by immunizing 500,000 rural children and educating the community about the disease.

Tagged: alumni, China, hepatitus, immunization, Human Health, International Issues, Public Service, Humanities & Sciences, Medicine

Since her freshman year at Stanford, Dunke Hughes, '05, MA '06, knew her future lay in teaching others. However, by the time she was a junior, Hughes was discouraged by her heavy college loan burden that would be difficult to repay on a teacher's salary.

Tagged: alumni, charter school, scholarships, teaching, K-12 Education, On Campus, Public Service, Education

Sandra Day O'Connor provided counsel to undergraduates in the inaugural lecture in a series dubbed "Harry's Last Lecture on a Meaningful Life".

Tagged: alumni, lawyers, Supreme Court, Public Service, Law

The hallowed halls of the U.S. Supreme Court are starting to feel like a second home to members of Stanford's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. During the spring '08 semester alone clinic instructors will argue a record six cases before the Court—a number rarely reached by even the most active Supreme Court litigation firms.

Tagged: lawyers, legal clinics, Supreme Court, Public Service, Law

By considering 12 factors not in the official poverty index, which has been largely unchanged since 1963, the Stanford Poverty Count will give a clearer picture of how poverty in the U.S. is changing.

Tagged: economics, poverty, sociology, Public Service, Humanities & Sciences