Features
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
Red All Over
Farm Report
Planet Cardinal
The Confectioneer
BethAnn Goldberg, ’94, MS ’96, brings an engineer’s eye to cake decorating
An Academy for All Africa
For Stanford co-founders of an African school, hope meets inspiration
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
Farewells
Pomona Exemplar
Frederick Sontag
The Freudian's Daughter
Eva Spitz-Blum
The Things He Saw
Hart Preston
Online Exclusives
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Bullets, Blood and Ice
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Obituaries
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Where to Find Inspiration? Maybe at Your Feet.
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You Knew Stanford Alumni Invented Google, But the Koosh Ball?
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The Wander Years
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