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What You Don’t Know About the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden
All Right Now

What You Don’t Know About the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden

Artists’ visit to campus ‘flipped the script’ on anthropological field work.

by Tracie White

Meet Stanford’s First Black Administrator
Features

Meet Stanford’s First Black Administrator

Sam McDonald came to campus to build roads and departed with one named after him.

by Sam Scott

Prime Minister Perks
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Prime Minister Perks

Which gig is better: Great Britain or Greece?

by Summer Moore Batte

Much Ado About Alice
Columns

Much Ado About Alice

How we went down the rabbit hole and ended up with our March cover.

by Kathy Zonana

War Torn
Features

War Torn

Craig McNamara was a Vietnam-era protester. His father was the U.S. secretary of defense. In a new memoir, he tries to untangle that knot.

by Deni Ellis Béchard

Product Design Visionary
Farewells

Product Design Visionary

Robert McKim, ’48

by Kali Shiloh

Free Trade Expert Who Was Dedicated to Public Service
Farewells

Free Trade Expert Who Was Dedicated to Public Service

James Thomas Kolbe, MBA ’67

by Kali Shiloh

She Brought Caring to Education Research
Farewells

She Brought Caring to Education Research

Nellie Laura Rieth Noddings, PhD ’73

by Kali Shiloh

Falling for Psychedelics
Features

Falling for Psychedelics

People are trying them. The media is touting them. But scientists say we need to know more about how they work and when they can help.

by Tracie White