Worth a Glam

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

A pair of Stanford scientists has found an answer to performance enhancement that has nothing to do with drugs. Their device to cool the body core not only may revolutionize sports, it could improve quality of life for medical patients, too.

by Eva Ciabattoni

Call it the campus that seldom sleeps. Whether it's baking bread in dorm kitchens or pounding the treadmill at Tresidder, something is usually going on in the wee hours. Join our reporter on a middle-of-the-night prowl around the Farm.

by Joshua Fried

When the future chief justice of the United States arrived on campus in 1946, fresh from service in World War II, he had no particular plan. Then he met a professor whose scholarly specialty inspired a career in the law, and whose ideas shaped the views that would change American jurisprudence.

by Charles Lane

The descendant of generations of tribal leaders, Raymond Cross knows the Indian wars did not end in 1890 at Wounded Knee. After a federal dam swamped his ancestral homeland, his quest for justice led him all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

by Paul VanDevelder

A blind student gets an A+ in a surgery course. A dyslexic student learns a foreign language. They may require extra time and technology, but students with disabilities don't let anything get in the way of their educations.

by Diane Rogers

Superfast integrated circuits, more effective methods of drug delivery, increased understanding of disease. The promise of nanotechnology is proof that good things come in little packages.

by Lee Bruno With additional reporting by Kevin Cool

Misapprehended lyrics, a disputed inheritance, a charismatic orphan, a threatened tradition vignettes about contemporary African life won this year's Stanford fiction contest.

by Jacob Doll