March/April 2013

Features

Can I Get Some Privacy?

The pervasive collection, analysis and sale of personal data mined from Internet sites raises troubling privacy questions. Scholars at Stanford are helping lead efforts for more transparency and stricter controls.

Seeing at the Speed of Sound

Deaf since birth, master's student Rachel Kolb, '12—recently named a Rhodes Scholar—describes her lifelong struggle to communicate with hearing people by reading their lips.

Nature Nurtured

Geneticist Virginia Walbot, '67, helped pioneer a path for women scientists decades ago. Today, her research is unlocking important mysteries about how plants develop.

Farm Report

ASKED AND ANSWERED

What's to Be Done After Newtown?

Would gun control prevent another Newtown?

STUDENT VOICE

Data Driven

A numbers game

TALENTS

Know They Can Dance

Gotta dance

FINDINGS

A Step Backward for Racial Integration in Schools

Integration takes a hit

Lost Marbles Finally Replaced

Cast in stone, again

EXCERPT

Smoking Out an Industry's Tricks

How tobacco wooed us

FOOTBALL

It's All About Readiness

Coach Shaw plans ahead

VOLLEYBALL

A Longtime Onlooker Joins the Team

Second-generation volleyball

Planet Cardinal

BOOKS

The Einhorn Touch

The brains behind bestsellers

ADVOCACY

Rising From the Ashes

An old silver mine turns green

VISION

Possessed by Place

Pictures with a past

FILM

China Town

Shanghai onscreen

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

They Know a Lot About You. Is That OK?

Hey, that's private

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Money Well Spent

Federal funding matters

1,000 WORDS

Immersion Inversion

Class Notes

Farewells

Telecopter Inventor

John Silva, '42

Lincoln Brigade Vet

James Benét, '35

SLAC Architect

Dick Neal, PhD '53

Online Exclusives

CARDINAL CONVERSATIONS

On Target, Forward

Adam Jahn is a pro soccer player . . . who still lives on campus.