Meet the Spring 2017 Social Innovation Team!

This spring we have an amazing team of social innovation coordinators who are all VIA program alumni. Learn…

VIA’s Social Innovation Community Continues to Grow

This summer, our Social Innovation team strengthened the VIA ecosystem by welcoming 5 participants from our Asia Program…

MED 2016 Participants

Explorations in Health Care with MED

This summer, VIA proudly hosted 40 of Asia’s best and brightest medical students at Stanford University on our…

ALC in 1977 and 2016

ALC Celebrates 40 Years

This year we celebrate 40 years of the American Language & Culture (ALC) program! The genesis of this…

ALC 2016 participants at Google

Connecting Participants with Silicon Valley

During the second week of the ALC program, students visited companies in Silicon Valley, and participated in some…

ALC 2016 at Glide Memorial

American Language & Culture 2016 Kicks Off at Stanford!

ALC kicked off its 40th(!) program at the beginning of August. Participants from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, mainland China,…

EHC Shadowing Reflections: Asian Health Services (AHS)

Hiroki Sakurada My name is Hiroki Sakurada, third-year student, Kyoto University Medical School. I visited AHS(Asian Health Services)…

EHC Shadowing Reflections: Stanford Hospital

Seiya Saito Hi, this is Seiya Saito. Our group shadowed and visited to the Emergency Department at the…

EHC Shadowing Reflection: UCSF

Takahiro Akimoto Hello! My name is Takahiro. This is my first article. So nice to meet you! It…

Day 5: Panel Discussion with Japanese Doctors & Researchers

Hello, my name is Mariko Watanabe. I’m second year students of Kyoto university. Today I’d like to write…