November/December 2009

Features

COVER STORY

Mission Critical

U.S. service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with multiple injuries, including brain trauma, present new challenges for doctors. At the Palo Alto VA hospital, Sandy Lai, '93, leads a team whose innovative treatments and therapies bring hope along with healing.

Careful Cuts

The Great Recession battered Stanford’s endowment and led to unprecedented cost-cutting measures. Despite a loss of $300 million in revenue, University leaders say that research and teaching are largely unaffected and a recently expanded financial aid program has—for now—been preserved.

Painting the Town

What began 25 years ago as a way to combat graffiti on Philadelphia buildings—inviting taggers to help paint murals instead—has evolved into a powerful force for neighborhood renewal. Now, the program created by Jane Golden, ’75, is being copied in cities across the country.

Guilty!

In a new book, emeritus professor Herant Katchadourian explores the origins of guilt and shame and how different cultures express these universal human emotions.

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Healing and Hope

A Marine’s story

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Solving Problems Is Our Business

Training problem solvers

1,000 WORDS

From Little Acorns

EXAMINED LIFE

She Got Games

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, ’44

CENTURY AT STANFORD

Capital Improvements

END NOTE

Twice Smitten

My new school spirit

Red All Over

Farm Report

Planet Cardinal

ON THE JOB

The Confectioneer

BethAnn Goldberg, ’94, MS ’96, brings an engineer’s eye to cake decorating

FUTURES

An Academy for All Africa

For Stanford co-founders of an African school, hope meets inspiration

DEPARTMENT OF GOOD WORKS

Fostering Independence

When foster kids grow up and move on, Deanne Pearn, ’93, steps in

Showcase

In Tune With the Toxic

What’s good about an Airborne Toxic Event?

Of Movement and Restraint

A Stanford class pairs dancers and wrongdoers

The Goods on Us

Evolutionist Geoffrey Miller, PhD ’94, ponders why we spend so much time spending

Class Notes

Profiles

SNAPSHOT: JEFF KRAUT, '66

So You Think You Can Dance

SPOTLIGHT: JO DEE JACOB, '73

Operation Thin Mint

SNAPSHOT: CHUCK JONES, '80

An Olympic Effort

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO: SAMI JO SMALL, '98

On the Fly

Farewells

Pomona Exemplar

Frederick Sontag

The Freudian's Daughter

Eva Spitz-Blum

The Things He Saw

Hart Preston

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