Stanford supports community projects to address pandemic challenges
The Office of Community Engagement, in collaboration with the Bill Lane Center for the American West, has provided over $200,000 in funding to faculty-led projects co-created with community organizations in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to accelerate solutions to pandemic impacts.
Recent Center News
The “poster child” for dispossession The Lakota Sioux were given control of land including Mount Rushmore, above, in an 1868 treaty, but lost it after gold was discovered in the South Dakota’s Black Hills.
Climate change exacerbates the likelihood of megastorms and ensuing floods; Washington’s new building codes mandate heat pumps; California incentivizes batteries for residential solar generation; federal court vacates a ruling on the controversial introduction of an Alaskan road; a toad and a tribe interrupt a renewable power plant’s construction; and more environmental news from the West.
Julia Simon (left) and Janet Wilson, 2022-2023 Western Media Fellows
The Bill Lane Center announces recipients of the 2022-2023 Western Media Fellowship, which provides support for journalists illuminating critical issues about the American West.
