Pipe Dreams

From piloting gliders to sculpting marble to juggling fire sticks, faculty members find all sorts of interesting ways to fill their hours off the Farm .

by Mike Antonucci

As public concern about brain injuries intensifies, researchers at Stanford are developing new devices that may help diagnose and prevent concussions.

by Kristin Sainani

When Jane Stanford forced out a respected professor in 1900, it raised questions about academic freedom that indirectly led to the establishment of tenure. Who was right and who was wrong?

by Brian Eule

Stanford Daily archives from 1892 are now searchable online. Let the nostalgia begin.

by Sam Scott

As federal agencies crack down on campus sexual assault, schools nationwide strive to improve prevention and response measures. But disciplinary policies pose a dilemma.

by Magazine Staff

His mother told him he was Native American and introduced him to a series of "fathers," supposed substitutes for his biological dad. In a powerful memoir, Brando Skyhorse, '95, describes a nomadic childhood and his search to discover who he really is.

When a team of scholars presented a paper on cryptography in the late 1970s, it spurred a battle with the government that underscored fundamental tensions between academic freedom and national security. Who was right and who was wrong?

by Henry Corrigan-Gibbs

In the Arctic and the Gobi Desert, and on one of the world's largest coral colonies, Stanford researchers are growing knowledge and understanding, and enjoying one heck of a view.

by Erin Biba

Sixty years go by in a wink when you have your dream job. William Dement has devoted his career to elucidating what happens while we sleep and the consequences when we don't.

by Nicholas Weiler

Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson spent decades assembling one of the world's best private collections of postwar American art, and almost as long sharing it with Stanford students. Now, some of the paintings and sculptures that once adorned their house have a permanent home on campus.