Worth a Glam

As a law student, Cory Booker, ’91, MA ’92, wanted to help Newark, N.J.’s inner-city residents fight for their rights. No one expected him to move into the neighborhood.

by Marc Peyser

These robotic hands can actually feel what they touch -- and they're smart enough to learn from the experience.

by Marina Chicurel

by Theresa Donovan Brown

Fresh out of Stanford, Herbert Hoover went Down Under in 1897 to scout Australia's goldfields. When he left the following yera, he was a rich man -- and a local legend

by William Coughlin

Yes, they played (and lost) a football game, but for Stanford's Rose Bowl team, that was only part of the story. One Cardinal player shares his diary.

by Charley Dean

Perplexed by the advice of child-rearing extremists, a young father discovers Stanford psychologist William Damon, a guru of "authoritative parenting."

by Tim Grieve

In a case that gripped the nation, David Lamson was charged with killing his wife in their campus home. Despite four trials and intense media coverage, the 1933 death remains a mystery.

by Bernard Butcher

He was a Marshall scholar, a college president and, finally, a top Stanford administrator. But mental illness changed everything. A victim of depression remembers his breakdown.

by Joel Smith

No longer content to merely feed 3,800 students 19 times a week, University Dining Services wants to reinvent itself as a restauranteur. The result? Hello artichokes, good-bye glop.

by Sherri Eng

A messy academic scuffle drove the Stanford anthropology department to split in two. The story behind the unusual breakup reflects a widening schism in the field.

by Mitchell Leslie