July/August 2005

Features

COVER STORY

Head of the Class

When the future chief justice of the United States arrived on campus in 1946, fresh from service in World War II, he had no particular plan. Then he met a professor whose scholarly specialty inspired a career in the law, and whose ideas shaped the views that would change American jurisprudence.

Leave the Lights On

Call it the campus that seldom sleeps. Whether it's baking bread in dorm kitchens or pounding the treadmill at Tresidder, something is usually going on in the wee hours. Join our reporter on a middle-of-the-night prowl around the Farm.

Just Cool It

A pair of Stanford scientists has found an answer to performance enhancement that has nothing to do with drugs. Their device to cool the body core not only may revolutionize sports, it could improve quality of life for medical patients, too.

Thrown a Curve

Battered by more than 20 years of kidney disease and cancer, Steven Skov Holt has sustained an optimistic vision about design that borrows from nature's "blobby" shapes. His ideas have helped mold a new way of making everyday objects.

Columns

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Serving Justice

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Our Heritage, Our Mission

END NOTE

And Camera Makes Three

Focus on the marriage

Departments

1,000 WORDS

The Newlymeds

BRIGHT IDEAS

Still Playing

Play together, stay together

E-MAIL FROM ...

Iran: The Young and the Restless

A new revolution

ON THE JOB

Orchestrating Change

Facing the music

Red All Over

Farm Report

Showcase

Digging Up Sound

Restoring the masters

SHORT TAKE

Amazing Amazonia

The Iconoclast

Beyond Belief

Class Notes

Profiles

UNFORGETTABLE TEACHERS: MYRON SPRAGUE

The Old Bamboo

SPOTLIGHT: MIKE AGNEW, '74

The Toque's on Him

SPOTLIGHT: KAI ANDERSON, '93, PHD '98, AND JIM HO, '95

Dome Lights

SNAPSHOT: SHAYNA NICOLE FERNANDEZ, ?04

If It's Thursday, This Must Be Palo Alto

Farewells

REMEMBERING BARBARA FINBERG, '49, 1929-2005

She Gave and Gave