Former President of Mexico sees positive economic, social growth for Latin America

Addressing a packed auditorium on March 5, Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, spoke with intensity about Latin America's prospects for both social welfare and economic well-being in the coming century. Mexico, which Goldman Sachs recently projected to be the world's fifth largest economy by 2040, was emblematic of this electrifying future, he said. Fox's lecture was sponsored by FSI as part of the 2008 Robert G. Wesson Lecture Series in International Relations Theory and Practice.

SPICE wins $25,000 Goldman Sachs Foundation prize

The Asia Society last week awarded the 2007 Goldman Sachs Foundation Media and Technology Prize to the Reischauer Scholars Program, a college-level, distance-learning course about Japan for American high school students developed by the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE). Gary Mukai, SPICE director, and Naomi Funahashi, the primary instructor for the scholars program, accepted the prize, a plaque and a check for $25,000, at a March 10 luncheon in New York City. Mukai said he would use the money to fund the 2008-09 scholars program, which is named in honor of Edwin O. Reischauer, a former U.S. ambassador to Japan.

March 11, 2008
International grants totaling $1 million awarded to interdisciplinary Stanford research teams

March 4, 2008
Cohen's 10-week Google.org course on poverty and development now available on YouTube

February 20, 2008
Hecker shares findings from North Korea trip

February 5, 2008
BP's chief scientist discusses secure, sustainable energy in Drell Lecture