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Stanford Emerging Technology Review Offers Policymakers New Insights Into Implications Of Cutting-Edge Tech
The 2025 edition of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review (SETR) report is now available, offering American policymakers a comprehensive overview of how ten frontier technologies, from artificial intelligence to robotics, are transforming the world.
Education Futures Council Unveils Report ‘Ours To Solve - Once, And For All’ Highlighting Path To Revitalize Public Education In America
The Education Futures Council (EFC) has released its report, “Ours to Solve, Once - and For All,” to address the public education crisis in America. The report outlines a new framework for revitalizing public K–12 education across the nation.
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Stanford Emerging Technology Review Highlights Promise And Risk Of Frontier Tech To Washington, DC Policymakers
Contributors to the 2025 edition of the Stanford Emerging Technology Review brought its findings to America’s capital on February 25,…
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Michael J. Boskin
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Drew Endy
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Allison Okamura
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US Energy Security: How We Got Here And Where We Are Headed Featuring Daniel Yergin
Daniel Yergin examines how American energy innovation reshaped global power dynamics while revealing the uncomfortable realities of an energy transition that pits wealthy nations' climate ambitions against developing countries' urgent need for economic growth.
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Getting Global Monetary Policy on Track
Following a surge in global inflation, experts from around the world discuss and debate monetary policy and strategy, examining interest rates, labor markets, and the role of central banks.
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Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology | The Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2025
Biotechnology partners with biology to create products and services, like engineering skin microbes to fight cancer or brewing medicines from yeast. This industry, already 5 percent of US GDP, is poised for significant growth. Synthetic biology, a subset of biotechnology focusing on enhancing living systems, relies on DNA sequencing and synthesis. DNA sequencers are machines that read or decode specific DNA molecules, while synthesizers write user-specifi ed sequences of DNA.
Featured Work:
The Interconnect: Robotics And The Quest For Smarter Machines
Hoover Institution Science Fellow and Stanford University mechanical engineering professor Allison Okamura and Kevin Weil, the Chief Product Officer of OpenAI, discuss innovations such as “soft robots,” how artificial intelligence will lead to more capable machines, and what policymakers can do to accelerate the growth of the US robotics industry.
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The Power Of Performance Pay
Smarter teacher retention and accelerated student achievement in Dallas.
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Strategika
An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.
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The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East
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Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State
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American Lives
Steve turns to Stelios Michalopoulos for insights into the sources of meaning, happiness, and hardship in the lives of everyday Americans.
A “Middle School Dance” Of Trust
In an Information Age during which decentralized news and information have contributed to a greater lack of trust in government and traditional media outlets, is it possible to restore confidence in both institutions?
Can Non-Citizens Be Deported For Their Speech?
Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer discuss the First Amendment and immigration law.
China, The US And The Future Of Democracy With Christopher Walker
Elizabeth Economy sits down with Christopher Walker to talk about the state of democracy globally.
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A World-Class Library & Archives
Founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives is home to some of the world's most renowned collections documenting war, revolution, peace, and political, economic, and social change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Exhibitions | Now On View
The exhibitions Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America (February 12–August 11, 2024) and Hoover@100: Ideas Defining A Century (ongoing) are open and free to all visitors to Hoover Tower, at the heart of Stanford University campus.
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Planning an onsite visit to the reading room? Conducting your research from afar? Staff are ready to connect you with the most relevant materials through reference consultations, assisting with registration and material requests, digitization, and more.
Learn MoreThe Collections
Acquiring, preserving, and making accessible collections of enduring value, including more than one million library volumes and over six thousand archival collections.
Digital First Initiative
Our aim is to make full archival collections accessible to researchers around the world through the digitization of textual, graphical, sound, and moving-image materials.
Engagement & Outreach
Building connections to our collections by sparking curiosity in audiences interested in the meaning and role of history through exhibitions, classes, tours, and special programing.