March/April 2016

Features

Steadfast

A four-time Cabinet member and a principal figure in ending the Cold War, George Shultz remains as devoted as ever to helping make the world safer. At age 95, he is still looking ahead. 

The See Change

Recent dramatic advances in virtual reality offer a glimpse into how pervasive use of the technology will change the nature of experience.  

Stanford After Dark

What happens on the Farm in the middle of the night? We sent a reporter to find out.

Farm Report

Bacteria We Like

Bacteria We Don't Like

At Last Count

How to Get a Date Without Really Trying

Tongues Untied

Bird. Watching.

Meet the Next President

Aura Means Growth

Two Win National Medals

A Bite of the Big Apple

CHANGING COURSE

Hands-On from Day One

Music on the Brain

Ram's Head Stages Rent

How 'Broccoli Forest' Happened

A Program on the Rise

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

What Civic Virtue Looks Like

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

The Access Imperative

Letters to the Editor

1,000 WORDS

Not So UGLI Video

Books, Music & Film

JOURNEYS

Words to Live By

My friend's afterlife

CONSIDER THIS

Challenging Europe

A refugee census

END NOTE

En Garde!

Fencing and me

Class Notes

The Dish

Farewells

Veteran Political Reporter

Douglas Ralph Willis, ’60

Public Policy Leader

Henry Stanislaus "Harry" Rowen

Eminent Theorist

René Girard

The Notes