We live in an interconnected world, which faces various problems on an international scale. At the beginning of the 21st century, Stanford University is uniquely prepared amongst universities – by its width of scholarship, pioneering faculty, and entrepreneurial heritage– to give research and real world approaches to direct most of these problems.
Under the John Hennessy’s presidency, a former School of Engineering’s dean and an electrical engineering professor and provost, the Stanford University embarked on n pretentious five-year, about $4.3 billion campaign, called the Stanford Challenge, to guarantee that the university continues to train future leaders and find some solutions to many pressing worldwide challenges. The campaign’s scholarly initiatives concentrate on the international relations, environment, human health, K-12 education, and the arts.
One of the outstanding and early successes of this campaign was the creation of the Environment’s Woods Institute, housed in the Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Environment and Energy Building, a groundbreaking “green” structure opened in the year 2008.
The age of globalization means various things for Stanford University: research on such issues as international security, abroad options for undergraduates, exchanges with international universities and partnership with colleagues internationally. In the field of human health, the University is conducting revolutionary research in bioengineering, stem cells, regenerative medicine, cancer treatment, and neuroscience.