Pipe Dreams

On the eve of her departure from the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor talks about her early anxiety as a Stanford student, the struggle to find a job as a lawyer and the challenges of a pathbreaking journey.

by Kevin Cool

by Michelle Friedland

by Charles Lane

Nearly one year after the tsunami wiped out scores of Indonesian towns, Kuntoro Mangkusubroto is using all of his skill to rebuild homes and hope.

by Joel McCormick

Take a walk through the Farm s historic homes, a collection whose colorful pasts include an infamous murder, a ghostly presence and a future president.

by Theresa Johnston

The resignation of athletic director Ted Leland adds another variable to an already daunting struggle: combining championship sports with rigorous academic standards. Balancing students well-being, faculty concerns and the desire to win compels Stanford to play the game with its own set of rules.

by Kelli Anderson

She began as a poet, enthralled by the work of Joseph Brodsky. Now Nicole Krauss s novel The History of Love is getting wide acclaim and something she didn't expect - a wide audience.

by Ann Marsh

Scholars and students pry open the past at Stanford's special collections, a trove of the rare and priceless.

by Theresa Johnston

With tenacity born from a scrappy childhood and with charisma that has endeared him to everybody from college undergraduates to New York's elite, Vartan Gregorian has redefined the notion of public intellectual

by Jesse Oxfeld

Battered by more than 20 years of kidney disease and cancer, Steven Skov Holt has sustained an optimistic vision about design that borrows from nature's "blobby" shapes. His ideas have helped mold a new way of making everyday objects.

by Joan O’C. Hamilton