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Center News and Notes: Archive

Faculty "Dream Team" Returns for Undergrad Course on the American West

‘Big Oil, Bad Air:’ 50 Years After the Clean Air Act, Pollution Problems Persist

Research Puts Coastal Management Under the Microscope

Feb. 17 Symposium to Address Energy Boom's Impact on Air Quality

Poll Finds Water and the Economy Lead California Voters' Concerns

Summer 2016 Internships Open for Applications

A Milestone Year for the Center

Student Researchers Trace California's Coastal Act and the Agency it Spawned

When Seeking Water Savings, Increasing Agricultural Efficiency Could Backfire

Center Postdoc Finds a Home for Digital Scholarship

Investigation into Fracking and Air Pollution Wins 2015 Knight-Risser Prize

Water and Energy at Issue in Fifth State of the West Symposium

Applications Now Open for Summer 2016 Local Governance Institute at Stanford

A Multi-Faceted Portrait of Women Farmers and Ranchers

New Faces and New Roles at the Center

Native Lands and the Northwestern Boom: John Dougherty's Book Heads to Print

Weighing Californians' Appetite for Water Reductions

Ice Patches, Holes in the Ground, and Other Adventures in Yellowstone National Park

The Salton Sea: Natural or Not?

Living History

A Demographic Portrait of State Legislators

A Trail Takes Shape in the Pacific Northwest

Kathy Zonana Moves Into News

An 'Ambitiously Multidisciplinary Course' on the West

Back Issues: Finding Unexpected Currency in the Pages of an Iconic Western Magazine

Chau Ho Heads East – At Least for Now

Understanding California’s Wilderness Landscape

Dynamics of Change in the 20th-Century Pacific Northwest

Meet the Summer 2015 Interns

Hiking in a Land of Little Rain

Western State Water Plans are "All Over the Map"

Using Visualization to Analyze the Growth of the American West

Seeking Summer Research Assistants

Collaboration Was Key to Knight-Risser Prize-Winning "Sea Change"

Stanford Press Pioneers Digital Humanities Publication with "Born-Digital" Project

Applications Are Now Open for the Bill Lane Center's 2015 Summer Internships

Understanding Crisis and Resilience in California's Housing Markets

Looking Back at a Productive 2014

Sophomores Traverse Wyoming in 'Energy in the West' Course

With Visually Striking Series on Ocean Acidification, The Seattle Times Wins Knight-Risser Prize

Seeking Research Assistants to Investigate California's Conservation History

Water, Energy Take Center Stage at State of the West Symposium

Utah's Eccles Family Gives $4 Million to Endow Center's Directorship

Seeking Research Assistants to Study Metropolitan Areas

More than Just Research

California Dreamin'

Memories and Insights from Denver

Stanford’s Small Green Spaces: Places for People and Birds

Archaeology on the Trail

Citizens of the Land

A Summer Behind-the-Scenery

It's Wild

Finding My Place in the World of Water

In the Archives, a Western Treasure Trove

As Drought Heats Up, a Switch from 'Paper Water' to 'Wet Water'

Mapping California’s Past to Understand its Future: Research and Policy at SFEI

The American West, Through Many Lenses

Learning to Jump First in Yellowstone

Uncovering My Place at Yellowstone

40 Years of Delusion

Maps of Future Past: Understanding California’s Historical Ecology

US-Mexico Water Conference Finds Opportunities for Cross-Border Collaboration

San Francisco's Animal Past

Water in the West Weighs Future of California's Groundwater

Life on the River

The Tree

It's a Small Town

What Do You Want on the Ballot?

Museum, But Not in a Museum

Bridging the Valley: Building Connections at the National Parks

As Summer Begins, Center Interns Set Off Into the West

From Stanford to the Sea, with Water in Mind

Undergraduates Meet the American West in a New Survey Course

Center Media Fellow Explores "Extinction's Greatest Hits"

With Digital Tools, Enhancing a Western Photography Exhibit

Summer 2014 Student Opportunities

New Technologies Bolster Shoe-Leather Journalism

A Summer in the West

Upcoming Event: Uncovering a Little-Known Agency's Toll on Wildlife

Letter from the Faculty Director: An Eventful 2013

Trilateral U.S.-Canada-Mexico Relationship Is Focus of Third State of the West Symposium

Americans’ Last Frontier

Sophomore College 2013: Alaska

An Island Is Anything Surrounded By Difference: Thoughts on Maps and History

Exposé of Federal Predator Overkill Wins Knight-Risser Prize

Reflecting on a Busy Summer Researching Election Laws

Seeking Research Assistants for Historical Photography Exhibition

Historical Detectives at Work

Finding Myself in Yellowstone

Where the Wild Things Were

Appreciating the Human Element in Land Conservation

Using Comics to Explain Complex Water Issues

A Display, Dirt, and Databases: A Summer in Yellowstone

Looking Down the Stream

With KQED, Visualizing a Warmer Future for Bay Area Open Spaces

Announcing our Fall Seminars on the West

Yosemite Summer and A Lesson of the Weight of Cultural Heritage

A Tapestry of California

Crowdsourcing California's Conservation History: A Call to Action

Discovering America’s Wonderland

Echoes of the Western U.S. in Australia, and Vice-Versa, in Water and Culture

Happy Trails, Laura Ma

The Perils of a Professionalized Military

Journal Surveys the Comparative Wests

Drawing Lessons from a Mexican Groundwater Saga

On Memorial Day, Considering the Volunteer Military

Deputy Secretary of the Interior Urges Land Managers to See the Big Picture

"Year of the Bay" Project Leads Wave of Humanities Crowdsourcing

Madeline Weeks Heads to Mexico on Fulbright Scholarship

Reflecting on Bill Lane's Western Life

At Stanford, Reworking the Old Story of the Overland Trail

From Stanford to the Sea

Starr and Feingold Debate the Future of Political Reform

Video Report Examines Role of Energy Boom's "Fugitive Emissions" in Ozone Problems

Spring Seminars on the West, and More Upcoming Events

Defining "Nature" in an Urbanizing World

At Stanford, Tracing the Roots of a Pan-American Connection

Water in the West Website Relaunches with New Features, Contributors

Heather West Wins Scholarship for Western Land Conservation Research

Center's Interactive Map Honored by Cartographic Society

Technology and Up-Close Reporting Help Environmental Stories Make a Difference

Food for Thought About the American West: Announcing our Winter Lunchtime Seminars

Reflecting on a Year of Transition and Growth

Where Scholarship and Journalism Meet

Center Co-Hosts State of the West Symposium

Large-scale Conservation on Montana's Glaciated Plains

In Wake of U.S. Election, Center Directors Offer Context and Analysis

Center Welcomes Harold Montgomery to Advisory Council

"Year of the Bay" Launches with the Sail of the Alma

High Country News Report on Pronghorn Migration Wins 2012 Knight-Risser Prize

Websites Help California and Washington Voters Understand Ballot Measures

Center Convenes First Conference on the Rural West

Back from the Field, Students Report on Conservation and Resource Management in Idaho

Bruce Cain to Join Center as Faculty Director

Announcing the Thomas D. Dee II Graduate Dissertation Fellowship in the American West

Center's "Mapping Texts" Project Presented in Digital Scholarship Journal

Fighting the Good Fight

Reflections on the Center's Media Collaborations

"Stop Saving the Planet!" Jenny Price's Plea for a More Just and Thoughtful Environmentalism

Center Summer Intern Considers Human Effect on the Plains

Conservation in Action at the American Prairie Reserve

New Study Reconstructs the Historical Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Kathy Zonana Joins the Center as Associate Director

Center Researcher Contributes to Major Report on Climate Change in California

California as an "Island": Finding Grains of Truth in Misbegotten Maps

Comparative Wests: A Summer of Creating, Restoring, and Maintaining Country

Researching at Stanford, Reflecting on American Indian Identity

Examining the Past of "America's Serengeti" on NationalGeographic.com

Theodore Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch, the “Walden Pond of the West,” Threatened by North Dakota’s Oil Boom

Gold fever heats up again in California's Mother Lode

California's Mixing Bowl: The Delta's Crucial Role in a Thirsty State

Unearthing the Histories of Montana's Prairie Wildlife

On the Alaskan Coast, Seeking Answers for Ailing Trees

Gone Fishin'

Hunting with Fire May Benefit Australia's Small Mammals

Madeline Weeks Joins the Center as Program and Research Associate

Envisioning California's Delta As It Was

Mapping Texts: Visualizing Historical American Newspapers

Are Western Communities Getting a Fair Return on Energy Development?

Generation Anthropocene

Richard White's History of Transcontintental Railroads Wins Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist

A Decade of Fire in Western Australia: Comparing Aboriginal Fire Regimes to Lightning Fire Regimes

Spring Quarter Courses on the American West

On California: A Dense Hotbed of Urbanism, U.S. Census Reveals

Writing the Rails: Scholar Richard White Gives Dimension to the History of the Railroad

Sunset Magazine's 2012 Environmental Awards

Bill Lane Center Fellowships for Scholars of the West 2012-2013

President Obama gives the National Humanities Medal to Stanford literary scholar Ramón Saldívar

Bringing "Real Rural" California into The City

Call for Participants: Rural West Conference in October 2012

Ecological Urbanism for the 21st Century

First Annual Graduate Student Conference on the North American West

Railroad Hyperbole Echoes Down to the Dot-com Frenzy

2012 Summer Internships in the West for Stanford Students

Adapting to Dry Times: The Role of the Media in an Increasingly Arid West

Where Has All the Water Gone? A dozen sophomores go deep into the Grand Canyon to examine the river that waters the West.

Unraveling a Historical Western Mystery, With Help From Interactive Mapping and Media

Winter Quarter Courses on the American West

The Case of the Dying Trembling Aspens

Conservation Is Up in a Down Economy Out West

Go West: Wired Magazine Interviews Center Director Jon Christensen

Reporting in Indigenous Communities: A New Guide for Journalists

Rural West Initiative's John McChesney Reports on North Dakota Oil Boom on NPR

California Has a Historic Opportunity to Do Right by Indians and the Land

San Francisco Bay Conservation 2.0

When Girls First Ran: Growing Up with Mary Decker

Senior Faculty Search for Scholar of the American West at Stanford

A Different "Occupy" Movement: Women's Activism after San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake

Save Water, Drink Beer?

How Governments Are Going Online

Can Technology Better Connect Citizens to Governments in California?

Alexandra V. Koelle Wins Award for Study of African American Soldiers in the U.S. West

Denver Magazine's Water Story Wins Western Environmental Journalism Prize

California State of Mind on PBS, Hear Us Now at Stanford

Steve Jobs, Silicon Valley and the West

Welcome to New Postdoctoral Scholar Brenda Frink

Remembering Advisory Council Member Pamela Rymer

Autumn 2011 Courses on the American West

Summer on the Skagit River, Hydropower, and Fall Runs of Chinook and Pink Salmon

Connecting California

A Permanent Fund for Western Environmental Journalism

Saving California's Golden Grasslands

Join the Radio Conversation: Community Newspapers and the Rural West

Waru! at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

Examining The “Global West”

Rebuilding the Weir on Thurman Creek

Reinventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure

Diseños, Penitencia Creek and the Coyote Creek Watershed

Touring the "River of a Million Horsepower"

A Slight Wolf Skull Emergency in Yellowstone

Can Grazing Cattle Help America's Bees?

Report Digs Up Best Groundwater Practices

Watch “Myths About the Transcontinentals”

Mapping Journalism’s Journey West

Californians Collaboratively Explore Reform Options

"What's Next California" Kicks Off This Weekend

Introducing Student Reports from "Out West"

Center Directors at Huntington Library's History Dissertation Workshop

Congratulations to the Class of 2011!

Fast Company Cites Richard White and the Spatial History Project

Center Advisor Nominated for U.S. Commerce Secretary

Ordinary Californians Chart a Path to Reform

The Transcontinental Railroad, Reconsidered

John Ford Joins the Center’s Advisory Council

Health Care in the Rural West: Persistent Problems, Glimmers of Hope

Welcome to Our New Website

The State of the West: First Annual Joint Symposium with the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Bill Lane, 1919-2010

Data Journalism Documentary @Stanford

Agenda-Defining Article on Water in the West

Upcoming Events

Eccles Family Rural West Conference

Fourth Annual Conference – University of Montana in Missoula

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Drawing Lessons from Regulatory and Collaborative Approaches to Water Management in Western United States and Canada

Paper Sessions at American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting

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The California Local Governance Summer Institute @ Stanford

Professional Seminar for Western Local Government Officials

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