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Indian Students: Innovation and Quality of Life Are Still a Draw
• Dr. Philip Pizzo, dean of the Stanford School of Medicine, signed an agreement on May 9,
2007 with the nonprofit Emergency Management Research Institute (EMRI) in Hyderabad
to train 150 paramedics and 30 paramedic instructors over a two-year period, first in
the southern India state of Andhra Pradesh and, ultimately, nationwide, under an EMRI
government contract. EMRI operates 500 ambulances and a state-of-the-art call center in
Andhra Pradesh.
• A School of Medicine training program, Stanford-India Biodesign, offers Indian engineering,
business and medical students immersion at Indian community clinics and hospitals in
a two-year joint fellowship project to identify unmet medical needs and develop costeffective
technologies, devices and treatments. Stanford will partner with the All India
Institute of Medical Sciences and the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, with
$4.8 million from the Indian government.
• The Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) has collaborated with
the Indian government, diplomats, military officers and scholars on matters involving
nuclear safety and security.
• Stanford’s Graduate School of Business has developed the IIMB Exchange Program in
partnership with the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, an exchange of 16
students from each school in a cross-cultural study of business and management in the
U.S. and India. Ramping up its India focus in 2007, 70 Stanford first-year MBA students
participated in two study tours to India. The school’s Global Management Immersion
Project has placed students in four-week summer internships at Infosys, Genpact and
Nike India. A Haas Center for Public Service summer fellowship program has placed
engineering and international relations students in projects with local NGOs and with
the Federal Reserve Bank of India. Two Stanford Business School alumni overseeing
this engagement—Infosys founder Narayana Murthy and Mukesh Ambani, head of
Reliance Industries—participate on the Dean’s strategy council.
• A two-year Rule of Law Program, involving workshops and research in India led by professors
Tom Heller and Erik Jensen, is currently studying the relationship between legal quality
and economic growth in India. A second project led by professor Paul Goldstein and Dr.
Joseph Straus of the Max Planck Institute examines “Intellectual Property Infrastructures
in Asia’s Emerging Markets,” including comparative case studies for India and China.
• Stanford’s Asia Technology Initiative (ATI) held two global entrepreneurial forums in
2005 and 2006 in Mumbai, bringing together Indian corporate and government leaders
with participating Stanford alumni, faculty, and students.
• Stanford students are working on rural energy projects with The Energy Research Institute
(TERI), one of India’s leading energy research centers.
UC Davis reported 60 international students and 78 visiting scholars from India in 2007–
08, engaged in plant biotechnology, microbiology and immunology; transportation;
environmental science; materials science; and chemical engineering, among other fields.
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