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  • Out West student blog
Student intern Emily Zhao describes her experience working on forest biomass utilization with Blue Forest.
  • Out West student blog
Alonzia Quinn reflects on her summer experience working at NCSL through the Bill Lane Center's internship program.
  • Center News
Building on our Stanford Rural Engagement Network, a program for rural students developed in collaboration with the Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford will now join a network of U.S. colleges and universities focused on attracting high school…
  • & the West
New technologies and spiking power demand are directing western states’ attention to the hot rocks and hot groundwater beneath the earth's surface, which can be exploited for the energy they provide.
Bruce Cain argues that the federalist nature of the U.S., along with regional history and idiosyncratic human behavior, have made resolving collective action problems uniquely difficult.