January/February 2016

Features

Closing In on Cancer

In animal experiments, medical researcher Edgar Engleman used the immune system to attack cancer cells and eradicate the disease. This could be a breakthrough that leads to a cancer-killing treatment. 

The Doctor-President Who Made Stanford Better

As a campus physician, he blunted a typhoid epidemic. As interior secretary, he authorized Hoover Dam. As Stanford president, Ray Lyman Wilbur improved the university in a host of ways. 

Not on Her Watch

Jennifer Granick has her eye on government policies she says threaten civil liberties and erode personal privacy. Where are the boundaries, and who should set them?

Farm Report

You Call That Music?

Music matters 

Cottage Industry

Student builders

Back Down to Earth

Lost in space, then found

On Hiring a President

Inside the search committee

The Laborers Nobody Knows

On Chinese railroad workers

BREAKTHROUGHS, BRIEFLY

Making Skin That 'Feels'

BREAKTHROUGHS, BRIEFLY

Eating Away at Plastics Pollution

Emails for Posterity

New archiving tool

Rebuilding from Within

Men’s basketball battles

The New-Look Cardinal

Women’s hoops adapt

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Where Optimism Blooms

Silver lining playbook

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

The Arts, Every Day

Enabling the arts

1,000 WORDS

Joining the Party

SPOTLIGHT

Untangling the Trauma

Repairing war’s damage

END NOTE

Third Time's the Charm

How Japanese can I be?

Class Notes

Farewells

Civil Rights Champion

William Donlon Edwards, '36

Stanford Superfan

John A. "Jack" Laird Jr., '40

Media Guru

John Barnes Sias, '49

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