July 2020

Cover Story

This Is Not a Drill

Bay Area public health officers had prepared all their lives for the possibility of a pandemic. That didn’t make their decisions any easier.

Features

Some Reassembly Required

Rapid Response

‘He Changed the Face of Stanford’

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Essays

This Is How It Ends

Wrapping up senior year with a mix of nostalgia, grief and gratitude.

by Melina Walling

Essays

‘Black Male: Guilty Until Proven Innocent’

It pains me that these words I wrote in 1992 still ring true today.

by Cory Booker

All Right Now
All Right Now

Last Time Pandemic Came to Campus, a Dozen Students Died

What happened in 1918.

by Sam Scott

All Right Now

Meet Amber Moore

A reproductive immunologist follows her curiosity.

by Melina Walling

All Right Now

What’s Funny Now?

Olivia Harewood takes on our 'social insanities.'

by Melinda Sacks

All Right Now

Best Practices in Pictures

Science-savvy graphic designers show us what we need to know about COVID-19.

by Melina Walling

All Right Now

Superpowers, Diagnosed

What it takes to breathe underwater, harness your inner nanobots or leap tall buildings in a single bound.

by Charity Ferreira

All Right Now

Everybody Dance Now

Stanford’s English department gets its Zoom groove on.

by Kathy Zonana

All Right Now

How Next Year Will Be Different

The outline of a plan for 2020-21.

by Summer Moore Batte

Columns
Columns

Meeting the Moment

Stanford Pres. Marc Tessier-Lavigne describes recent work to address the pandemic and racial injustice.

by Marc Tessier-Lavigne

Columns

Beginnings and Endings

And the words that move us to make change.

by Kathy Zonana

Departments
Departments

All Rise

Students stand in solidarity against racial injustice.

by Summer Moore Batte

Departments

Biblio File: What to Read Now — July 2020

New releases that inspire us.

Departments

Book Review: Lost in the Rain Forest

New and Notable

by Kevin Cool

Departments

Dialogue — July 2020

Farewells
Farewells

Spiritual Guru Who Popularized Psychedelics

Baba Ram Dass, PhD ’57

by John Roemer

Farewells

Legal Pioneer, Scholar and Mentor

Barbara Allen Babcock

by John Roemer

Farewells

Obituaries - July 2020