May/June 2012

Features

Power Trips

Dimitri Dadiomov, '07, went all over the world in search of better ways to generate electricity. What he learned helped launch a career, and made him a powerful advocate for experiential study.

Game Changers

Any history of video games must include the contributions of Stanford faculty and alumni, whose technology breakthroughs and creativity enabled one of the world's most popular entertainment industries.

Something Doesn't Add Up

A Stanford epidemiologist has uncovered innumerable examples of flawed research that has led to worthless medical treatments and unnecessary side effects. Only by using reliable data to assess outcomes, he says, can medicine reform itself.

Farm Report

AGENDA

Overhauling Requirements for Freshmen

A curriculum overhaul

EXCURSIONS

Army Maneuvers

Scoping out Army training

GIFTS

Where Does All That Money Go?

Stories behind the money

TROVE

Beauty With an Unknown Past

A mysterious acquisition

SURVEY SAYS

Speak, Memory

Speeches then and now

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Once More, With Feeling

Final Four but no more

MEN'S BASKETBALL

Cardinal Men Win NIT Trophy

NIT title caps up and down season

Planet Cardinal

ADVOCACY

Voice for the Vulnerable

Battling elder abuse

NOW PLAYING

Awkward Stage

Black heroine breaks out

BRIGHT IDEA

Making It Personal

Making magazines social

LOCAL COLOR

Hometown Homage

Street art in Sacramento

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

When It Comes to Video Games, I'm Getting Schooled

A lot to learn about video games

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Our Strong China Connection Gains a Firmer Foothold

In China, a new beginning

1,000 WORDS

Grace Against Gravity

END NOTE

It's Greek to Them

My sorority story

Class Notes

Farewells

Charity Champion

Jean Webb Vaughan Smith, '40

Device Pioneer

Elliott Farnsworth, '48, MBA '51

Psychology and Law

David Rosenhan

Online Exclusives

Where No Musician Has Gone Before

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra plays in Bing Concert Hall, still under construction.

CARDINAL CONVERSATIONS

'Mad Dog' Returns