Center News and Notes

Check out our winter 2026 newsletter to learn about the many ways in which the Lane Center is cultivating sound policy, environmental stewardship, tribal well-being, rural health, sustainable resource management, and community revitalization across…

Joan Lane, instrumental in founding the Bill Lane Center, built a reputation as the “special assistant for sticky problems,” then bolstered the university as a volunteer and enthusiast.

University Libraries has digitized the papers of Kazuyuki Takahashi, who was a Stanford PhD student when President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized what was to become the mass internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Records of Takahashi'…

Widely distributed but hard to disentangle, exotic elements are vital to green energy and military applications. For decades, China has dominated the dirty business of mining and processing rare earth ores. Two Mojave desert mines, one operating and…

On Tues., Jan. 20, the Madera Irrigation District (MID) memorialized the late Dick Luthy, renowned Stanford environmental engineer and Lane Center research affiliate, for his lifelong commitment to water sustainability. Among family, friends and…