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Editor’s Choice
Winter 2025
Essays
When I was a senior, I took Sand Hill Road all the way home to Missouri.
By Anne Sutton Canfield
How a bioengineer and a poet forged their own paths.
by Kathy Zonana
When the time-space continuum encounters a force for good.
by Sam Scott
The improbable, coincidental and utterly true story of an alum who went missing for 13 years, and the friends who found him.
by Kevin Cool
Stegner’s ‘labor of an afternoon’ struck a chord around the world.
by Daniel Arnold
The written world of Wallace Stegner was one of calloused hands and expansive beauty. His most famous pupils saw things differently.
New releases that inspire us.
New and Notable
by Deni Ellis Béchard
How a boy who played with fire (and mercury, and bleach) became a bioengineer who brought $1 origami microscopes (and paper centrifuges, and snorkel-mask PPE) to the world.
Vartan Gregorian, ’58, PhD ’64
by Rebecca Beyer
Marion Lee Lewenstein
by Melina Walling
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