Center News and Notes: Archive

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

What We're Reading

Upcoming Events

I See the Beauty in this Life: A Photographer Looks at 100 Years of Rural California

Opening Party at California Historical Society

The opening celebration of the California Historical Society's exhibition, "I See Beauty in this Life: A Photographer Looks at 100 Years of Rural California." This exhibition was curated by the writer and photographer Lisa M. Hamilton, a Center media fellow and the first visiting scholar in a new CHS series, "Curating California." Includes a short performance by Hamilton and the world champion livestock auctioneer Max Olvera.

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Welcoming the 'Alma' Back to San Francisco Bay

Launch Event for "Year of the Bay" Project

Help welcome the schooner Alma and open the Year of the Bay — a year which brings the America’s Cup and the opening of a new span of the Bay Bridge — to all of the diverse communities of the Bay through voyages of the Alma and an innovative humanities crowdsourcing project that will go live online November 1st .

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State of the West Symposium

Second Annual Conference

Facing the Pacific Rim with open arms, the American West is the most dynamic region in the nation. The western United States has been a source of innovation and growth and can be an engine of economic recovery. We hope you can join us for this special gathering of policymakers, investors, researchers, scholars, and business people in a vibrant conversation about the economic and fiscal prospects of the western United States and Pacific region.

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