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The Pacific Agenda


In Hong Kong, alums pull off a handover of a different sort.

by Ginny McCormick

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It's an ambitious goal: to create a two-year graduate fellowship for Pacific Rim students at Stanford modeled on Oxford's Rhodes Scholarships. The program is a pet project for President Gerhard Casper, who is eager to make Stanford the foremost university of the Asia-Pacific region.

To increase Stanford's profile in Asia, Casper has made seven transpacific trips in five years. His most recent