July/August 2009

Features

COVER STORY

Assembly Required

Drew Endy and Christina Smolke, partners in life and in the lab, are at the leading edge of a bioengineering revolution: using genetic material to make living entities with utilitarian purposes. You might say they’re trying to build a better world.

Project Lifetime

The brains behind hit reality shows such as The Bachelor, Andrea Wong, MBA '93, moved to Lifetime and did her own version of an extreme makeover. The results have impressed industry insiders and attracted viewers, but will advertisers buy what she's selling?

History is a test. Mankind is failing it.

René Girard's theories about the human condition have made him a giant among contemporary philosophers and a revered figure in his native France. His ideas offer a sobering view of where humanity is headed.

Card Stock

A nationally acclaimed group of football recruits arrives on campus soon, but they’ve been acting like teammates for months.

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Try this Summer Recipe

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Graduates Who Give Back

1,000 WORDS

Spring Fling

STUDENT VOICE

Strung Together

END NOTE

Footloose and Singlewide

My trailer and me

Red All Over

Farm Report

Planet Cardinal

GENERATIONS

Nine Lives

Whose Woods these are: All nine members of this family graduated from Stanford

GEAR

Course Correction Audio

Everything in alignment? This putter might help

BACK WHEN

War and Remembrance

Women remember the way Stanford was during World War II

Showcase

Grief's Beauty

An artist looks at Victorian mourning, through the lens of Leland Jr.

Class Notes

Profiles

TIME CAPSULE: DANNY RUDERMAN, '94

Make Way for Frisbee

SPOTLIGHT: EMILY WILLIAMS, '02

Knit Wit

SPOTLIGHT: BOB ROCKWELL, MS '64, PHD '70

A Record High

Farewells

Hole Hearted

Bob Rosburg

Instrumental Figure

Frances Blaisdell

A Record of Service

Claude Brinegar

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