Opportunities for Students at the Bill Lane Center for the American West

There is a rich assortment of opportunities for Stanford undergraduates and graduate students at the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Please take a look at the categories below:

Other Educational Resources

Exploring the West High School Curriculum

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.

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 .

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.