Arica Gaitan, the lead of Stanford’s Anatomical Gift Program (AGP), oversees more than 110 donations per year. She ensures ...

It’s 11 p.m. on a Thursday in New York’s Greenwich Village, and Lucas Zelnick, MBA ’22, is on the mic. He’s already done sets at two other clubs in Lower Manhattan this June night. Now it’s his third ...

The list of excuses an athlete can use to explain away a disappointment is as long as any playbook. The coach wouldn’t use me. The calls were bad. The fans weren’t with us. It just, you know, wasn’t ...

Bill Dement knew he was in trouble when he felt his eyelids begin to droop. He shook his head and tried to concentrate on what the professor was saying about reproductive endocrinology. But despite ...

Kathy Ho tries to see every new teen on her list within 72 hours of their arrival. For some, it’s too soon, or they’re too sick. But for others, she is a beacon of normalcy. Ho teaches high school ...

When was the last time you read an entire book, cover to cover, before starting another? (If that’s just the way you operate, please—tell me your secret.) As Stanford’s Biblio File editor, I read ...

“What makes us good? What makes us evil?” As Stanford psychology professor emeritus Philip Zimbardo reflects on these questions, he observes that they aren’t as different as they might seem. “They’re ...

When the Chang family moves to the affluent Bay Area neighborhood of El Nido, they must learn to navigate shrill, wealthy neighbors, feelings of isolation, and—of all things—coyotes. In the gripping ...

If you've ever enjoyed a PBS television program, thank John Gardner. If you’ve received a Medicare payment or worried about campaign finance reform, thank John Gardner. If you learned “new math” in ...

Every so often, Aaron Palke realizes he’s holding a small stone worth more than his house. A steady stream of diamonds, emeralds, and rubies flows through his lab in Carlsbad, Calif. But knowing ...

In 1956, Dwight Eisenhower received 40 percent of the black vote in winning reelection to the White House. A year later, overwhelming Republican support overcame determined Democratic opposition in ...

The most celebrated player in Stanford football history came from just down the road, and a world away. He was a hard-knocks kid from San Jose, a Mexican-American with an Irish surname, who gravitated ...