Interaction

Spring 2008

• Food we can live with
  • What's for dinner?
  • How to feed the planet
    • The Food Research Institute
  • Child obesity and the need for social movement
• Making society a bit more civil
• Switching behavior
• Solutions for the good of all

Winter 2008

• Doing African Studies
  • On the ground in Africa
• Teaching and learning how to teach and learn
  • Rediscovering creativity by building it
• Urban Studies adjusts to a new world
• Gender: A fiercely interdisciplinary terrain

Fall 2007

• Virtually unlimited knowledge
• Stanford's latest brainchild
  • An entirely new perspective
• Do America, do the world
• An ambitious agenda for health research

Spring 2007

• "It's about vision, not space."
  • School of Engineering Center: From the ground up
  • Learning and Knowledge Center: Gained in translation
  • Food and thought
• Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies: The new world of area studies
• Center for Teaching and Learning: Connections in the classroom
  • Academic Technology Specialists: Interdisciplinary linkages
• Boosting graduate education

Winter 2007

• Interacting with our computers
• Numbers: The most basic building blocks
• The world as prototype
• Quantifying the body
• Nanotechnology and ethics
• Science, technology and society

Fall 2006

• Knowledge of archaeology
• Stanford inhabits Planet Earth
  • What's in a name?
  • Earth, Woods and water
• Geography: 'The what, the where and the why'
  • Deep mapping
• Graduate students mix it up

May 17, 2006

• Making practice perfect: How collaboration enhances Stanford's professional schools
• Works well with others: GSB Dean Joss focuses on better management
  • Future leaders dress the part
• The Law School establishes a precedent
  • Legal technicalities: Legal scholars team up with computer scientists
• The business of education
• The world of texts: Modern Thought and Literature digs deep

February 15, 2006

• Film Studies: A vision realized
• The grants that make the research possible
  • Who's in charge?
• A system of collaboration: The structures of multidisciplinarity
  • New center on longevity
  • The logic of language and learning
• Feminist Studies: 'Making Connections'

November 15, 2005

• Ethics Investigations: How does good citizenship intersect with teaching and research on campus?

October 19, 2005

• How the North American West is one: Multidisciplinary pioneers explore what makes this land unique
• The evolution of Human Biology
• A novel idea: The Center for the Study of the Novel
• Odd couples: The challenges and rewards of team-teaching across disciplines
• Shaping the humanities
• COMMON GROUND: Initiatives and Think Tanks