March/April 2005

Features

COVER STORY

New Kids on the Quad

Lacking the advantages of freshman bonding, transfer students cut their own path with gumption and guts, and enrich the campus with an outsider's perspective.

What Are You Saying?

By analyzing the hidden meanings in everyday speech, Geoff Nunberg captures the zeitgeist and reveals how language shapes our thinking.

The Brains Behind the Wheel

Engineers in Stanford's Dynamic Design Lab are working on a car that could save your life and make motoring more fun. Is it ready for a test drive?

Still Life

During a career spanning three decades, Joan Myers's quiet, evocative photographs have brought new perspective to natural wonders and man-made horrors.

The Troubles that Occur

Misapprehended lyrics, a disputed inheritance, a charismatic orphan, a threatened tradition—vignettes about contemporary African life won this year's Stanford fiction contest.

Columns

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Lining Up to Lend a Hand

END NOTE

Seeing Carlos

Departments

1,000 WORDS

Water World

ON THE JOB

Grave Testimony

The bone woman

E-MAIL FROM . . .

Cambodia: Home, Reconsidered

Seeking refuge

Red All Over

Students, Hospitals Lead Tsunami Efforts

Tsunami grief and relief

Going Where No Robot Has Gone Before

The little robot that could

Farm Report

Showcase

Anything Can Happen

Pioneer Merce Cunningham

A Man of Many Voices

Latino literature

Ready for Takeoff

Taking to the slopes

Class Notes

Profiles

SPOTLIGHT: GREGG BEMIS, '50

How Deep Is His Love

SPOTLIGHT: MIRANDA BARRY, '72

Making All le Monde a Stage

UNFORGETTABLE TEACHERS: GEORGE COLLIER

Prince of the In-Between

SPOTLIGHT: JANE LOGAN, '95, AND JACKIE ORTEGA, '95

Pumping Up Creativity

Farewells

REMEMBERING MACLYN MCCARTY, '33, 1911-2005

He Discovered What Genes Are Made Of

REMEMBERING ROBERT C. PRINGLE, '72, 1950-2005

'A Quintessential Giver'