Fool’s Paradise

by Yvonne Daley

Fearless and fervid, Stanford's first art professor left his imprint on California's peaks and on lithography.

by Daniel Arnold

Ved Chirayath brings camera work to new heights—and depths.

During a prolific and sometimes perilous 16 years, John Hennessy championed interdisciplinary research, elevated the arts and transformed the campus. Here's how Stanford's 21st-century president did it and how it changed the university.

by Mike Antonucci

What happens on the Farm in the middle of the night? We sent a reporter to find out.

by Mike Vangel

Recent dramatic advances in virtual reality offer a glimpse into how pervasive use of the technology will change the nature of experience.

by Sam Scott

A four-time Cabinet member and a principal figure in ending the Cold War, George Shultz remains as devoted as ever to helping make the world safer. At age 95, he is still looking ahead.

by Robert L. Strauss

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?

by Mike Antonucci

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.

by Theresa Johnston

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.

by Greta Lorge