magazine
May 2019
Four faculty members weigh in on why it can be difficult to build a campus culture in which students are comfortable enough to disagree.
As faculty grapple with how to set a culture that maximizes learning, administrators must also ensure the university follows the law.
It’s not just good for your heart. It’s good for your brain. Faculty, students and patients show us the steps.
Short profiles of the five Stanford alumni recently elected to Congress
Buildings honor first American woman in space and a founder of the field of Native American mental health.
Leland Stanford and I have one thing in common: railroad troubles.
Already a stunt pilot, this physics major is setting her sights higher.
Readers submitted more than 300 life hacks. Here are our favorites.
A culture scholar on beauty as currency and the purposes of plastic surgery.
People are happier, but less informed.
She stood up to sex slavery, censorship and ethnic cleansing. Now her influence is growing.
Lisa Joy was a lawyer with a high-paying consulting job when she got the phone call that changed her life.
A pair of botanist-bloggers deconstruct the food we eat.
Alexis Mantheakis, ’67, says the Parthenon sculptures belong at the Acropolis. And he’s willing to fight for them.
Geology students create creative tours for national parks around the country.
A field guide to the new STANFORD.
This spring’s admissions fraud scheme poses challenges for higher education.
New releases that inspire us.
Marc Tessier-Lavigne jams with the Band.
Peter Magowan, ’64
Eleanor Emmons Maccoby
Kelly Catlin, Gr. ’20
Admissions scheme prompts firing of sailing coach, new safeguards.
