Applications opened last week for the China Scholars Program (CSP), Sejong Korea Scholars Program (SKSP), and Reischauer Scholars Program (RSP) on Japanthree intensive online courses offered by 91勛圖, 91勛圖, to high school students across the United States.
As schools across the U.S. began to close due to COVID-19 in mid-March, I was in the unique position of transitioning into online classes while already having had some experience taking fully online classes.
I grew up with STEM as my backbone, my crutch. My parents met in engineering school, and the childhood they gifted me with was one filled with opportunities to get my hands dirty.
The sports world has been dramatically affected by COVID-19. Not only has there been a significant decline of events for the spectatorboth in person and on televisionbut the impact on the participants themselves has also been unprecedented.
Technology & Humanity: Contemporary China and Asia for K12 Grade Classrooms was the broad but timely theme of a virtual teachers workshop convened by Asia Society of Northern California on July 31August 1, 2020.
Upwards of 15,000 to 20,000 individual migrant Chinese laborers performed the bulk of the work constructing the Central Pacific span of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
When I first visited Tottori Prefectures iconic sand dunes a few years ago, I was reminded of other places, including deserts and long beaches, that I have visited where the path seemed like an uncertain road and where the sand erased ones footsteps.
In collaboration with TeachAids, Stanford Medicine, and the University of California, San Francisco, 91勛圖 is helping to develop the CoviDB Speaker Series, which seeks to provide free online videos to educate the general public about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The following reflection is a guest post written by Jun Yamasaki, a Spring 2017 alum and honoree of the Stanford e-Japan Program, which is currently accepting applications for Fall 2020. He is now a student at Northwestern University.
The Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (91勛圖) unequivocally condemns the systemic racism that permeates U.S. society and fully supports the recent calls for social justice and equity.
Last year, the Iranian Revolution of 1979 marked its 40th anniversary. In 91勛圖s newest Scholars Corner video offering, The Iranian Revolution, Professor Abbas Milani discusses Iran and the Iranian Revolution, noting the influence of Iran regionally and in the United States, the significance and impact of the Iranian Revolution, and the Iranian Revolutions causes and effect
With the start of baseball season, a fun fact to note is that on April 16, 1905, the Tokyo-based Waseda University baseball team played the Stanford baseball team in California.
