Works
April 13, 2018 | Article
While extant works have documented public receptivity towards wind turbines extensively in developed democracies, we examine these claims in China, who leads the world’s wind energy market and faces rising environmental NIMBYism
April 9, 2018 | Paper
Jose Bolorinos, Newsha Ajami, Robert B. Jackson
A “policy-informed” life cycle assessment of a cross-border electricity supply chain that links the impact of each unit process to its governing policy framework. An assessment method is developed and applied to the California–Mexico energy exchange.
March 19, 2018 | Video
This public symposium celebrated the rise of notable western women artists during the last century and the prospects for achieving gender parity in the western art scene today.
February 27, 2018 | Video
The Bill Lane Center invited members of the Stanford community and others to join in addressing how we can best marshal the resources of Stanford University to contribute to the improvement of wellness and health care delivery in the Rural West.
February 12, 2018 | Article
Both parties agree that the country has serious infrastructure needs—but even with a new proposal on the table, we may end up with next to nothing, writes Bruce Cain.
January 10, 2018 | Report
The lives and careers of 34 prominent and remarkable woman visual artists, specifically those who hail from, call home, were educated, or spent their professional careers producing art in the American West.
December 20, 2017 | Video
Why did Silicon Valley take off in the postwar era? Who was responsible for its explosive development? And where is the Valley headed? A conversation about Leslie Berlin's latest book, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s Coming of Age.
December 12, 2017 | Video
Professor Marci Kwon’s lecture explores the remarkable body of photographs produced by May’s Photo Studio, one of the most prominent Chinese-run photography studios in San Francisco’s Chinatown. From its opening in 1923 until the mid-1960s, the wife-and-h
November 15, 2017 | Video
November 7, 2017 | Article
John Upton, Western Enterprise Media Fellow
As climate change fuels large wildfires, the pollution they're releasing is making Americans sick and undermining decades of progress in cleaning the air.
November 3, 2017 | Article
Mitch Tobin
While most Californians are in favor of using recycled water for nonpotable purposes, research has found that only 11 percent would drink it. A Stanford study examines the reasons why and the policy implications.
October 31, 2017 | Paper
John O. Dabiri
We conducted a public opinion poll in California to examine public receptiveness to deploying vertical axis turbines at a smaller scale in urban or suburban areas.
September 28, 2017 | Paper
Debra Perrone, Scott Jasechko
September 27, 2017 | Book
Tom DeMund and the Bill Lane Center for the American West
The book offers 18 themed walks through the Stanford campus, guiding you past notable architecture, sculptural works, and historic features; plus another 20 hikes on university lands, nearby parks, and nature preserves, as well as more distant hikes.
September 16, 2017 | Image Gallery
Sophomore college students toured the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River, one of the seven civil engineering wonders of the U.S., according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
May 18, 2017 | Video
Presentations from the ArtsWest symposium at Stanford University: the world seemed on the brink of catastrophe when John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. Today we are confronted with our own cataclysmic moment in time.
May 15, 2017 | Video
A keynote address opening the conference "World War II and the West It Wrought"</a> at Stanford University. The author and New York Times columnist Timothy Egan spoke about the role the war played in shaping the contemporary American West.
April 28, 2017 | Video
Attendees and organizers talk about the vital conversations about the future of rural western health and health care that took place in Santa Fe at the Eccles Family Rural West Conference on March 23-25, 2017. Full video of the conference.
April 21, 2017 | Video
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox Quesada addressed an audience of Stanford students, faculty, and staff on April 18, 2017.
March 27, 2017 | Article
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Media Fellow
A wet winter is easing water strains in the Southwest, but the longer-term outlook is generally hotter and drier. States now have that in mind in water bargaining.
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