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A law enforcement officer meets with community members in Brazil.

Stanford scholars say that technological innovation is not an inevitable force that exercises power over us. Instead, in a new book, they seek to empower all of...

Jeremy Weinstein, professor of political science and director of the Stanford Global Studies Division, is faculty director of the Stanford Impact Labs, a new...

Francis Mutuku, a researcher at the Technical University of Mombasa who collaborates with Stanford’s Desiree Labeaud, examines purposeless containers for...

Azadi Tower, Tehran, Iran. 

Photo credit: Vahid Mazaheri on Unsplash

Negotiations in a canal water dispute mediated by irrigation personnel in Pakistan. 

 

Photo credit: Maira Hayat

Rayan Sud '21 in southern France.

The facade of the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia, a court established to try the most senior responsible members of the Khmer Rouge for...

David Freeman Engstrom (left) and SGS Director Jeremy M. Weinstein (right)

Japsimran Kaur, ’18, (fourth from right) and other Stanford team members with research assistants from Gujarat.

Emma Puighermanal (front right) with Dr. Jun Ding (front left) and fellow researchers.

Trends in Iran's population growth and total fertility rate.

Iran 2040 Project

Bricks dry outside a kiln in Bangladesh. (Faizul Latif Chowdhury / Wikimedia Commons)

Stanford sophomore Tien Vo, left, discusses her research with Professor Amy Zegart during their meeting in early September. (Image credit: Alex Shashkevich...

Undergraduate Anatole Schneider researched the Italian election of 1948 using original newspapers from Italy at the Hoover Library & Archives. (Image credit: L...

Hoover Institution archives include posters from the 1979 Iranian Revolution. (Image credit: Hoover Institution Archives)

Anna Polishchuk’s interest in Stanford’s Iranian Studies Program led her to archival collections at the Hoover Institution to examine top-secret Soviet...

Cyclone Gudrun (Erwin) hits the North Sea in 2005.

The Mapping Cairo Team (L to R): Alexandra Blackman, Caroline Abadeer, and Scott Williamson

While on her research trip, Mayol took this photo outside of Kigali, Rwanda.

Taylor Mayol (CAS), M.A. ’14

Stanford students Havi Mirell (fourth from left) and Daniel Mattes (second from right) with the rest of the trial monitoring team, including members from...

From left to right: Jess Auerbach, Laura Hubbard, Mark Gardiner, Assistant Director for the Global Supply Chain Management Forum Davis Albohm, Vanessa Watters...

In 2013, 45 students participated in Summer Research College, a program that gives Stanford undergraduates the opportunity to assist faculty with research...