May/June 2007

Features

COVER STORY

Field Work

Can agriculture and conservation co-exist? Yes, says Earth Sciences dean Pamela Matson, who is finding solutions to environmental problems that don’t require giving up the farm.

Out of the Sahara

Nomads for centuries, the Tuareg people of North Africa face constraints in the global economy. Capitalizing on decades of travel and research, Cantor Arts Center director Tom Seligman has assembled a collection of art and craft that conveys an exotic,ancient culture and its venture into modernity.

Zimbardo Unbound

His famous prison experiment revealed the bad things good people can do. After Abu Ghraib, psychologist Philip Zimbardo has more to say about our capacity for evil.

The Boys are Back in Town

Current and former members of the Stanford Fleet Street Singers gathered for a 25-year reunion concert. Sounds like fun.

A Step in the Right Direction

A team of Stanford scholars is studying old age from all angles. The first product of their thinking is a shoe that may help keep elderly bodies moving.

Columns

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

No Time to Waste

END NOTE

Going Her Way

Classroom for one

Departments

1,000 WORDS

Board Certified

STUDENT VOICE

Elements of Style

Better learning through chemistry

ON THE JOB

Playdate with Science

Where science is child’s play

Red All Over

Farm Report

Showcase

With a Song in His Head

Wired for song

Places, Please

All his world’s a stage

The Paths That Led From China

Sisterhood was complicated

Class Notes

Profiles

TIME CAPSULE

If I Were a Rich Kid

UNFORGETTABLE TEACHER: GERTRUDE SCHUELKE

My Guide to the Ancient Texts

SPOTLIGHT: PATRICIA HALEY, '84

Inspiration, One Paragraph at a Time

SPOTLIGHT: ROB GITLIN, '96

A Friend in the City

Farewells

Scholar of Democracy

Seymour Martin Lipset

Partners in Biology

David Dexter Perkins and Dorothy "Dot" Newmeyer Perkins