Other Stanford Resources
Other Stanford Resources
- The Stanford Global Gateway
strives to be a one-stop website for discovering the
university's overseas interests. Its goals are for the site are to increase faculty
connections and to make international activities more visible to potential
students, outside collaborators, alumni and the general public.
- Bechtel International Center
believes that international educational exchange nurtures a lifelong global perspective, and organizes cultural events, classes, workshops, and also administers numerous
international fellowships.
- The Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP)
presents Stanford
undergraduates with numerous opportunities for enriching and diversifying their
undergraduate experience in 11 different countries abroad. A new BOSP location
in Cape Town, South Africa, which will open Winter Quarter, 2010, will blend
coursework with service-learning and community-based research.
- The Division of International Comparative and Area Studies (ICA)
of the School of Humanities and Sciences strives to strengthen
existing international programs and to expand the scope of Stanford's scholarship and
education to include critically important regions and themes in today’s world. Programs include:
- The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
is
Stanford's primary forum for interdisciplinary research on key international
issues and challenges. In addition to five research centers that conduct
international policy research on democracy and development, the environment,
health, security and arms control, and Asia-Pacific issues, FSI also has
research and educational programs including the Program on Energy and
Sustainable Development, the program on Food Security and the Environment and
the Rural Education Action Project.
- The Stanford Center for International Development (SCID)
is
a center within the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) focused on international trade and development with programs on China, India, Latin America and Caribbean, and
International Economics. The center also sponsors research projects,
conferences, and seminars that explore economic policy topics in international
and development economics.