Stanford US–Russia Forum Russian Consul General in San Francisco Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz, former U.S. Secretary of State Dmitri Trenin, Director of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow Center American University Boston College Bowdoin College Brandeis University Columbia University Cornell University George Washington University Georgia Institute of Technology Harvard University Middlebury College New York University Stern School of Business Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Princeton University Rice University Stanford University Swarthmore College University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Los Angeles University of Chicago University of Kansas University of Minnesota University of Pennsylvania
Stanford US–Russia Forum Stanford US–Russia Forum The Stanford US–Russia Forum (SURF) is an organization dedicated to bringing students at leading Russian and American universities together for research in public policy, business, economics and many other disciplines. The program begins with a fall conference in Russia, followed by six months of work on collaborative research projects and a capstone conference in the spring at Stanford University. Currently in its tenth year, more than 400 undergraduate, graduate, and professional school students from Russia and the U.S. have participated in the program. SURF was founded in the fall of 2008 by four students from Stanford University