Green Aluminum
"Twenty years ago, someone in China might drink beer from a barrel out of a mug," explains materials science and engineering professor James W. Evans, "Now they're going to drink out of an aluminum can."
Container Strategy
Containerized shipping moves far more material across our borders than any other mode of transport. Each year, major ports in the United States handle thousands of cargo ships and millions of containers, and each container can carry up to 20 thousand kilograms of cargo. If just one or two kilos of highly enriched uranium were to make its way through this system, someone could use it to build a suitcase nuclear weapon. How do you detect the attempted smuggling of small amounts of fissionable material buried deep inside containers carrying lead bricks or any other legitimate cargo?
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Defending Immigrants' Rights
Jayashri Srikantiah (B.S.’91 EECS) loves to ask what’s fair. Is it fair to imprison a Muslim man without due process? Is it fair to deport an undocumented Mexican woman who has testified against her husband for abusing her? As director of Stanford Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, Srikantiah confronts these questions every day, helping law students protect the rights of noncitizens.
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