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April 9th, 2012
Researchers call for policy, aid and innovation to help world’s poorest
CISAC, CDDRL, FSE, FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsBill Gates spoke to a Stanford audience about the importance of foreign aid and product innovation in the fight against chronic hunger, poverty and disease in the developing world. FSI senior fellows Larry Diamond, Jeremy Weinstein, Paul Wise and Walter Falcon share their own ideas about how to secure the most fragile nations. Read more »
November 21st, 2011
CISAC Honors graduate awarded a Rhodes Scholarship
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementCongratulations to Anand Habib, selected this weekend for a Rhodes Scholarship. Habib, a biology major, was a Class of 2011 CISAC honors graduate. His thesis focused on health governance, and he is currently working at a medical clinic about 100 miles outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Read more »
May 26th, 2011
CISAC announces its 2011-2012 Undergraduate Honors Students
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementCISAC announces its 2011-2012 Undergraduate Honors Students Read more »
May 8th, 2011
CISAC honors student awarded for "exceptional, tangible" intellectual achievement
CISAC, FSI Stanford AnnouncementTen undergraduates recently received the 2011 Deans' Award for Academic Accomplishment, which honors extraordinary undergraduate students for "exceptional, tangible" intellectual achievements. Among them: CISAC honors student Anand Habib, a senior majoring in biology with honors in international security studies. He is completing an honors thesis focusing on health governance. 
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December 8th, 2010
Lawrence Wein: Surviving a nuclear attack
in the newsIt's one of the most frightening possible scenarios: a 10-kiloton nuclear device detonates in Washington D.C. on a weekday morning. Thousands die instantaneously. But what should the survivors do? Encouraging survivors to take shelter in a basement would save far more lives than having them hide elsewhere or attempt to flee on foot or by car, according to Lawrence Wein, a CISAC faculty member and the Jeffrey S. Skoll professor of management science. His paper on the subject, co-written with two Stanford graduate students, recently won the 2010 Best Paper award for the journal Risk Analysis. They conclude that the "government should initiate an aggressive outreach program to educate citizens and the private sector about the importance of sheltering in place in a basement for at least 12 hours after a terrorist nuclear detonation." 
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December 16th, 2009
Reducing the nuclear threat: The argument for public safety
Op-ed: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on December 14, 2009In this op-ed, CISAC's Richard Rhodes argues that public health, a discipline that organizes science-based systems of surveillance and prevention, has been primarily responsible for controlling the effects of infectious disease. A similar campaign around public safety could help end the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons. Such a push would help create unity in common security and a fundamental transformation in relationships between nations, Rhodes argues. Read more »
April 28th, 2009
CISAC's Paul Stockton nominated for Assistant Secretary of Defense
in the news: The White House press office on April 27, 2009Stockton, a senior research scholar has been nominated for Assistant Secretary of Defense (Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs), Department of Defense. Read more »