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Maya Rossin-Slater, PhD, writes in this Boston Globe editorial that long after the headlines about the Brown University mass shooting fade, the survivors face decades of trauma that could impact everything from their mental health to their livelihoods.
The New England Journal Medicine highlights the research of Adrienne Sabety, PhD, on how the assistant professor of health policy measured the loss of primary care physicians.
A Look Back at 2025
As we close out 2025, the Tech Impact and Policy (TIP) Center at Stanford University is proud to reflect on a year of groundbreaking research and impactful events. Here are some of the year’s key highlights:
Held in Manila, Philippines, the fourth annual Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue generated cross-sectoral insights on complex issues faced by cities and human settlements across the region, from housing and mobility to disaster resilience.
Reflections of seven students on the educational website “What Does It Mean to Be an American?”
On the World Class podcast, Gabrielius Landsbergis shares what the war in Ukraine has looked and felt like from a European perspective, and what he believes must be done to support Ukraine for the long-term.
The Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab, in partnership with Brazil’s Federal Labor Prosecution Office (FLPO), is developing Chain-Link, a new data-driven technical tool to map exploitative supply chains.
A long-running collaboration between CISAC co-director Scott Sagan and Dartmouth professor Ben Valentino offers new insight into how real-world information environments shape nuclear decision-making.
In this timely study, SHP's Lee Sanders reveals that Medicaid discharges accounted for $119.5 billion—more than half of all pediatric hospital discharges nationwide—a figure the researchers called “striking.”
High school student Erin Tsutsui, an alumna of Stanford e-Entrepreneurship Japan, reflects on forging friendships across Japan, embracing new world perspectives through thoughtful discussion, and transforming family heritage into a youth-led peace initiative via empathy and social innovation.
Speaking just one day after deadly clashes between Thailand and Cambodia reignited along their shared border, Thai Ambassador Dr. Suriya Chindawongse joined APARC’s Southeast Asia Program to explain how a fragile truce, shifting U.S. tariffs, emerging semiconductor opportunities, and a surge in online scam syndicates are shaping ASEAN’s future.
Byongjin Ahn offers an insider’s look at how President Lee Jae-myung’s early leadership is reshaping South Korea’s political order, revealing the tensions between pragmatic governance, fragile liberal norms, and the country’s emerging AI-driven strategic ambitions.
Eurasia Group’s David Meale, a former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, reflects on the last 30 years and describes how the two economic superpowers can maintain an uneasy coexistence.
Theara Thun, APARC’s Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fellow on Southeast Asia, investigates how educational systems emerged in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia within the broader context of national recovery and development.
In a CDDRL research seminar, Nate Persily, the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, discussed revelations from the 2024 election and how the 2024 election can forecast the upcoming 2026 midterm election cycle.
Stanford experts discuss the high-stakes scientific, ethical and regulatory challenges behind an emerging science known as “mirror life.”
Dr. Emmanuel Navon, author of “The Star and the Scepter,” explored the enduring tension between realism and idealism in Jewish diplomacy and the paradigm shift following October 7.
The Stanford Daily highlights the groundbreaking educational nonprofit cofounded by Stanford Medicine adjunct professor Piya Sorcar.
The country’s political polarization has metastasized. What can be done?
Former U.S. diplomats Michael McFaul and Susan Rice argued that the second Trump administration is a driver of global democratic recession and is leading the U.S. toward “superpower suicide” at a panel on Monday.
CDDRL Research-in-Brief [3.5-minute read]
Sponsored by Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, the annual award recognizes outstanding journalists and news media outlets for excellence in covering the Asia-Pacific region. News editors, publishers, scholars, and organizations focused on Asia research and analysis are invited to submit nominations for the 2026 award through February 15, 2026.
Stoner, the Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and a leading scholar of Russian politics, discusses her career trajectory, areas of current research, and priorities for the years ahead.
A conversation with Marcel Fafchamps as he reflects on the insights, challenges, and evolving institutions that have shaped his decades in development research.