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Jun 1 2020 | Posted In: Announcements
Undergraduate students Ricky Joshua Toh Wen Xian and Ashley Phord-Toy have been elected as co-presidents for the King International Development Association (KIDA) for the 2020 - 2021 academic year.
May 26 2020 | Posted In: Research Spotlights, Student Profiles
With support from the King Center, Stanford PhD candidate Christiana Parreira studies how municipal governments function—or not—in Lebanon.
May 22 2020 | Posted In: In the News
Faculty Affiliate and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Karen Eggleston, talks about her new edited volume, "Healthy Aging in Asia" with the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
May 22 2020 | Posted In: Impact Stories, Research Spotlights
Stanford researchers involved with the Data for Development initiative harness satellite imagery and AI to help fight poverty in Africa
May 19 2020 | Posted In: Center News
Faculty affiliates Karen Eggleston, Scott Rozelle, and Xueguang Zhou join the Director of the China Program, Hongbin Li, to examine how COVID-19 has impacted urban and rural employment in China’s health care sectors.
May 16 2020 | Posted In: In the News
Research by Jason Andrews, faculty affiliate and assistant professor of medicine (infectious diseases), on the spread of COVID-19 in developing countries is discussed in The Economist.
May 6 2020 | Posted In: Meet the Researchers
As a scientist bent on addressing the global sanitation crisis, William Tarpeh is not fazed by urine or excrement. But even he was struck by the sheer scale of fecal sludge arriving by the truckload at a waste treatment center he visited recently in Senegal.
May 5 2020 | Posted In: In the News
COVID-19 and other looming threats could make it much harder for people to access food. David Lobell, director of Stanford’s Center on Food Security and the Environment, outlines likely scenarios and possible solutions.
May 4 2020 | Posted In: In the News
Alexandria Boehm, faculty affiliate and professor of civil and environmental engineering, spoke with Rachel Maddow about measuring sewage for coronavirus.
Apr 30 2020 | Posted In: In the News
Working on several possible COVID-19 solutions, bioengineer Manu Prakash and his lab stress their obligation to produce careful and meticulous work.
