Fool’s Paradise

For the first time since spring 2020, there are several thousand undergraduates on the Farm. The university has big plans for how they’ll live and learn.

The venerable venue celebrates 100 years. Sort of.

by Sam Scott

In the midst of family tragedy, a father decides that the best path is candor.

by Ivan Maisel

When the time-space continuum encounters a force for good.

by Sam Scott

The improbable, coincidental and utterly true story of an alum who went missing for 13 years, and the friends who found him.

by Kevin Cool

Stegner’s ‘labor of an afternoon’ struck a chord around the world.

by Daniel Arnold

The written world of Wallace Stegner was one of calloused hands and expansive beauty. His most famous pupils saw things differently.

by Daniel Arnold

How a boy who played with fire (and mercury, and bleach) became a bioengineer who brought $1 origami microscopes (and paper centrifuges, and snorkel-mask PPE) to the world.

by Deni Ellis Béchard

Vartan Gregorian, ’58, PhD ’64

by Rebecca Beyer

Stanford sports will remain 36 strong.

by Sam Scott