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Still Life
During a career spanning three decades, Joan Myers's quiet, evocative photographs have brought new perspective to natural wonders and man-made horrors.
by Jack Fischer
The Brains Behind the Wheel
Engineers in Stanford's Dynamic Design Lab are working on a car that could save your life and make motoring more fun. Is it ready for a test drive?
by Greta Lorge
New Kids on the Quad
Lacking the advantages of freshman bonding, transfer students cut their own path with gumption and guts, and enrich the campus with an outsider's perspective.
by Joshua Fried
Free to Learn
After decades of war, neglect and oppression, Afghanistan is emerging from a dark age. Educator Zaher Wahab made good on a promise and went back to help.
by Angie Chuang
Boy, Interrupted
One moment Joe Kay was on top of the world a star athlete and gifted scholar with dreams of Stanford ahead. The next he was in the hospital, trying to get his life back.
by Christine Foster
Regarding Ernest Johnson
Forgotten for almost a century, Stanford’s first African American student has had his legacy restored. And the alumnus who honored him has gained back a piece of his past.
by Jocelyn Wiener
Betting the Ranch
On a sprawling Montana spread, Roger and Cindy Lang hope to make ranching and sound environmental practice synonymous.
by Paul Rogers
Net Assets
Buoyed by a federal grant to develop digital research tools, Stanford's computer science department turned its graduate students loose on an intriguing problem-solving exercise. Ten years later, their work has produced virtually every significant Internet search innovation and spawned the world's most popular librarian, Google
by Richard Brandt
Teaching Apathy?
Researchers in the School of Education may have found a clue as to why young people don't vote. In a survey of high school student councils across the country, they found that students' first experiences with representative democracy, the high school election, is often considered a joke.
by Marina Krakovsky
The Cleaning Agent
During 20 years of advocacy, Ted Smith has helped write environmental law and reform the computer industry's thinking about toxic waste they produce. With so many victories, isn't he ready to relax? Not by a long shot.
by Joan O’C. Hamilton
