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Sam Scott
We live in a world where one person’s disinformation is another person’s truth. But the university’s free exchange of ideas can sharpen the picture.
Kathy Zonana
Online Exclusives
Luciana Frazão’s path to a master’s in mechanical engineering involves a game show, a surprise benefactor and a promise to pay it forward.
In an increasingly interconnected world, the next pandemic is not 100 years away. Here’s what scientists are worried about and how we can prepare.
Deni Ellis Béchard
Leland Stanford: Silicon Valley’s Original Disruptor?
A new book describes a man on the fast track.
By Sam Scott
Book Review: Ghosts of Gold Mountain
New and Notable
By Vanessa Hua
Why Jane Stanford Limited Women’s Enrollment to 500
And what happened next.
A Gentleman’s Quarrel
Frederick Law Olmsted and Leland Stanford: Their conflicts, and compromises, led to an iconic campus.
By Daniel Arnold
3 Things That Happened on Stanford Land Before It Was a University
About a Boy
His death broke his parents’ hearts and spawned a university. But who was he? Recent revelations suggest a different Leland Stanford Jr. than many have imagined.
By Theresa Johnston
Buying Time
Returned treasure
What You Don’t Know About Leland Stanford’s Horses
By Suzanne and Stephen Eschenbach
A Party House for California
Party House
How the West Was Fun
An unlikely plaque for Leland Stanford
BY
Vanessa Hua
Meet Bradley Immel
In the shop or on the stage, a senior mixes it up.
Nothing Better to Do with Andrew Evans
All Right Now
Akshay the Inventor
Meet Aparna Verma, ’20
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May 2021
